Re: [SGII] Alien seed

Rather than a hive mind with all its attendant implications of psychic
powers
perhaps the Node/Queen creature communicates with drones via a chemical
messaging system. Pumping out super-pheremones to raise slave units
aggression state from Y/G to B/O/R.

An alternative to the Kaffir idea is a race of super-adaptives. Unlike
humans
who agglomerate experience slowly over time, this race approaches every
new
situation with a blank slate and then learns to deal with it at a
terrifying
rate. So they go into a firefight Y/G and increase leadership / Quality
the
longer they stay in that fight and the more they're stimulated (i.e.
shot).
They then revert to Y/G until the next time they're engaged when they
start
the adaptive process over again.

Laserlight wrote:

> Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
> > Defiitely sounds worth pursuing as an alien idea! Having seen some
> > invert colonies in action I have less of a problem with a hive mind
than
> > Laserlight does ;)
>
> Aren't all the colonies there inverted, since they're Down Under?
>
> >>For example, it could be that the player has a certain number of
blue,
> >>orange and red counters of varying leadership. At the start of a
turn,
> >>he can then substitute some squad's yellow counters for the vet
>
> Actually, this would be a good concept for the Machine People--most
> individuals have only moderate processing power, but master units
would
> be able to remote control normal units.  The master would be Elite by
> itself, Vet if tele-operating a single subordinate, perhaps Blue if
> operating two or Green if operating four.

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