Essentially to defeat them one would somehow need to disrupt their telepathic network and use that blackout period to cut out each "finger" so to speak and their energy sources/supplies which seem to be critical to it. Surely this doesn't look as easy as activating an artifact and hoping a wormhole would suck them all. Well, predictably not all of them were thrown out like that. Problem is that said telepathic network does not manifests itself in the world outside of living beings, hence why machines and nomads cannot communicate to each other. Both can detect physical manifestations of each other with sensory organs/devices but that's all there. So how does it really work? And if that telepathic network really exists... where would it be and what would it be like? Either way that is their Achilles' heel. Questions, questions.
' Wrote:Essentially to defeat them one would somehow need to disrupt their telepathic network and use that blackout period to cut out each "finger" so to speak and their energy sources/supplies which seem to be critical to it. Surely this doesn't look as easy as activating an artifact and hoping a wormhole would suck them all. Well, predictably not all of them were thrown out like that. Problem is that said telepathic network does not manifests itself in the world outside of living beings, hence why machines and nomads cannot communicate to each other. Both can detect physical manifestations of each other with sensory organs/devices but that's all there. So how does it really work? And if that telepathic network really exists... where would it be and what would it be like? Questions, questions.
it would be like a wireless network with a strong encryption. Even if its telepathic it STILL has to have some form of physical medium to transmit and recieve data.
Let's make one a pet, give him a cute name, and then release him back into the collective with a paradoxical imagine in his head that will kill the Nomads when they try to analyse it!
On second thought, give that job to Ian McKellen because he's not as nice as Patrick Stewart.
Ok, humans know next to nothing about Nomads, so scientific explorations of th Nomads, at least to start, would be fairly easy RP. First, they can be observed in battle. Rp that your ship is not only equipped with laser cannon's, but Lidar cannons, Camera's, and any other sensory package you can think of. Then Rp finding some of the basic things. Rp a camera ship, taking screenies, during a battle btween Nomads and Human forces. The possibilities are endless. Also, who cares if what we come up with outstrips the original games. One, we could Rp coming up with false leads, untrue "facts" that somehow sweep the human population. Two, the scientific level of the humans isn't static. We have far more tech, and a lot of time has passed, since the original storyline. Will we ever figure them out totally, nah, that's half the fun, but minor breakthrough's? Sure, it'll help keep the hope of finally beating them alive, while showing the futility of the fight. I think it's a good idea. This game is constantly evolving, lets keept the evolutions flowing forward smooth and silky.
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An approximation of my reaction when I see my next victim...er, these forums.
There was a TNG episode where the Enterprise captures a lone borg and they are able to interact with it outside its shared mind. So, I would say very possible.
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-Thomas Alva Edision
' Wrote:it would be like a wireless network with a strong encryption. Even if its telepathic it STILL has to have some form of physical medium to transmit and recieve data.
The quirk is that it doesn't manifests itself in any known physical medium. It doesn't require a network of receivers and repeaters like human communications do (data streams via trade lanes, communication satellites and jumpgates).
Means there is something else, no doubt puzzling scientific minds. Back when I actually played the game (long time ago it was) regularly I had a character, a paranoid lane hacker who was an ex-navy, came to be witness of the first conflict. Anyway, in-character I played that he spewed some conspiracy theorists garbage, among which was a saying that Nomads are infesting and using humans as communication relays, matrix-esque horrors and all that. A crazy theory of course fitting equally crazy character of mine, still one of the examples how it could be viewed as in-game. Whether that is true or not... I don't know.
Quote:There was a TNG episode where the Enterprise captures a lone borg and they are able to interact with it outside its shared mind. So, I would say very possible.
How any material from a different science fiction universe can make something in a different science fiction universe plausible for a completely different specie entirely unrelated? I don't see borgs here and I don't see Enterprise here either (last thing we need around is an army of Picards). None at all. Just because something was made possible in one fictional universe doesn't make it automatically possible for a different one.
But it doesn't make it impossible either. The similarities between the nomads and the borg have to be taken into account to full appreciate my statement. Advanced bio-technology, not fully understood, colective consciousness, absorbs people, ect.
To disregard my statement is looking at the question the wrong way. A captured nomad that is severed from its collective consciousness is just a plot device. I offered you an instance where a very similar plot device was already played out. So, you can disregard or accept as valid. I don't give a damn either way.
And isn't all material from science fiction interelated on some level. Characters, technologies, and even plots are all borrowed from each other. Since we are kind of creating our own science fiction universe here then it is not only acceptable, but encouraged to borrow the more interesting and exciting elements from other science fiction universes.
Some of the ship designs are stolen from other science fiction universes. Should we just delete them from the server?
"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something."
-Thomas Alva Edision
' Wrote:There was a TNG episode where the Enterprise captures a lone borg and they are able to interact with it outside its shared mind. So, I would say very possible.
That's the very episode I was making fun of above.
*points to his previous post*
It is similar to someone who doesn't know about Nomads.
One massive difference:
Borg are technology that can interface with living flesh
Nomads are living flesh that can interface with technology
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