Non-Nomad RP on Nomad Cloaked ships

[Spud]

It's a self-contradictory character.

Not at all. It's actually less self-contradictory than sending your "regular" kind of nomads as young ones into house space to learn about humans there. The only thing they would learn there would be how to interact with humans. The only nomad who would want to learn that would be an infiltrator, for training.

Hybrids are very rare

Rare where? As a natural occurance? Yes. Nowhere did I say that Spud was a natural occurance between a nomad and a human.

As gene manipulated tools or experiements, not rare at all. And that's exactly what Spud is. I think that's quite clear in my post that explained the RP.

and too malformed

Some of the attempts will be. A lot of them. Spud is one of the more successful ones, if you disregard some appearance traits which can be cosmetically altered.

to be of any use for infiltration

Most of them yes. Spud is being tested if she can learn enough to be useful as infiltrator. Sending her to house space is the preparation, and the test, for her real purpose.

- they're just for research purposes, test subjects at best.

As already said long before you posted, that's what Spud is.

Infested humans are used for infiltration.

In 2 cases that we saw, yes. Jacobi and the Chancelor.

In these 2 cases, nomads needed to turn an already existing non-infected political figure to work for them.

For Spud, or for trial nomads, that is not the case.

Nothing in the game suggests that this is the ONLY way nomads operate. Infact, it is stated somewhere in the developers notes that they are masters in gene manipulation. They probably created the nomad blue squid parasite specifically so they can control already existing humans. This in no way means that this is the ONLY thing nomads are capable of doing. Infact, it would be foolish to think that its the only way. Imagine if it was not humans that the nomads had to deal with but flying whales. Or intelligent cockroaches. Would they have used the blue inflitrator that we saw to infect those? Certainly not. Would they have been incapable of dealing with them in a different way? Certainly.

Sure, various well-equipped groups had increased security and able to detect those, but now and then even most rigid measures fail to account for every case, or just plain human errors and social engineering loopholes exploited. Keeps it fun that away that neither infiltration nor security have silver bullet solutions.

My goal is not to powergame an undetectable nomad later on, nor is it to to make a character that is perfect (which you may have noticed if you read my ingame logs that I posted).

My goal is to create a logical nomad that is tossed into human company in order to learn from them, as the ID says. In my opinion, the way I am RPing that is much more logical and better thought through than the other morphs that you see. And also much more fun to play and much for fun for people to interact with.

Have an infested char, simple as that, don't need special IDs for, it's more fun that way - worming way into groups and factions while avoiding checks, cleaning up any trail left.

I don't need a special ID to do exactly what I am doing now. My RP is not contradictoray to lore, the trial nomad ID, game balance, mine or anyone elses game experience. The only problem is that some people are too static in what they are used to and therefore think is the only way.

I see absolutely no reason to change my RP, and would ask that you think about it a bit more before dismissing it and trying to force it into one of your existing, rather boring and one-sided, moles.

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