Re: Pantropists/OU connection

From: <johncrim@voicenet.com>

> The big write up was going to note that the PE produced just enough
merpeople to form the
> basis of a viable population, but no one is really sure what happened
to
those children
> after they were taken in protective custody....
>
> (An underwater SGII/FMA game would be really interesting, wouldn't
it?)

> If nothing else, this could certainly make the PE more viable for
gaming
purposes.  Very
> Special Forces for the OU!

Talking about Very Special Forces...

It's already been stated that some Tursiops Truncatus are 1st-class OU
citizens. Most can't be
bothered passing the literacy and numeracy tests though, they don't
think
it's that important.
And most aren't that smart anyway, gene-mod Chimps are way ahead of them
on
average.
"Phins just want to have Phun", though they do appreciate the help in
childbirth and the
anti-parasite medication. There are a number of cetacean 2nd-class
citizens
employed as jackeroos
on the fish farms on Earth, and elsewhere, and a few cetacean 3rd-class
(the
labour laws stopping
the exploitation of young human children and other 3rd-class citizens
are a
bureaucratic nightmare,
or there'd be a lot more.)

I can see non-OU Slavers kidnapping 3rd-class citizens to exploit/clone
as
"smarter than robot"
underwater labour. Especially as the Phins would probably have a Whale
of a
time, would willingly
do it, and they're generally not accorded rights as intelligent
life-forms
outside the OU so it
would merely be unethical not illegal. It's one of the few bones of
contention in the otherwise
cosy Japan-OU relationship that the Japanese like whalemeat, dolphins
included.

But until Eureka gets quite a few more orders in the 28mm 100 club (Hint
Hint, we won't be seeing
any Neo-Dolphins in power harnesses in the OUDF ORBAT.