Lost Colony like Darkover or Haven or like?
Not unknown as a theme for fun..
SG1 and like are based on the idea of a lost colony or base or base or ..
Movies often are an expression of what someone is thinking today or in
recent times?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Thrien" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Re: Biological Invasions, was: Pandora
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Funk (antispam)"
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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
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