----------| Am 01.02.2010 00:40 schrieb Abrigon Gusiq: |---------- > Where they get the original DNA of the Navi? > How much do they know? > If its of "Terran" origin, similar to how some DNA is from other > places, and not from the modern era.. They supposedly found european > origin DNA in New England that dated some 4000 years ago or so, cause > of known mutation rates. (not common knowledge or rumor?). > > So next, attack might be a bio-bomb to take out the Navi, where is the > press on Pandora, to report on the genocide anyways? How would the > "mother" be able to adapt to new attacks? I expect with her knew > knowledge from the good Doctor, a lot more now than it was. Maybe even > a bio-bomb of her own against invading humans? > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Funk (antispam)" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:39 AM > Subject: [gurps] Re: Biological Invasions, was: Pandora > >> > I still wonder how come the Navi are 4 limbes, but many or most >> > of the other life forms on Pandora, are 6 limbed, and how come >> > their DNA is compatible to >> > human, or it just a coat of Navi over human or ... >> >> >> what if the navi are assimilated early terran explorers? >> >> (as I'm reading this with the Chtorr assimilation in mind ) >> > In Midworld the Forest was in fact able to assimilate the knowledge of dead sentients, and the mankind on that world were the descendants from a lost colony ship - something that was left open or unclear in Avatar. The fact that only the Na'vi are four-limbed while all other creatures have six or eight limbed suggests the idea that they were of human stock somehow. But obviously there are some major differences between Human and Na'vi: first Human could not breath the air on Pandora - so how should the first colonists have survived on that world? And next, this "Brain Link" between the Na'vi and the other species is something shared amongst the native lifestock, but not with humans. As a consequence, if Na'vi would be of human stock, they have to be genetically engineered. But in this case, this was done by a third party, as Terran techlevel does not allow for that (or did not allow for that during the time when it must have happened): the story states that creating the avatars was a relatively new science, and also the discovery of Pandora was not that long ago that a genetically engineered species could have developed a language and a sophisticated culture of its own, like the Na'vi obviously have. This also speaks against the assimilation of early Terran explorers: they would still speak the/one Terran language as Pandora without Na'vi would not have a language at all.
One difference between the two stories, Avatar and Midworld, was the McGuffin the human invaders where after: in Avatar it was a mineral while in Midworld it was something that was grown by the Forest. So while it would be possible to sterilize Pandora to remove the final obstacle that hinders the Corporation to harvest the mineral, sterilizing Midworld would destroy its greatest treasure as well. I felt this was a flaw in the logic of the story of Avatar. -- Thomas Thrien Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
