Gimme input!

[Tenacity]

One question: Why?

Seems rather boring and likely to die if you ask me. -.-'

From Nomads to ghosts... And then... Ghosts from Gaia? Sure... We'll send in a FEAR squad right away.

Anyways, honestly... I dislike the idea of 'ghosts' because realistically they would probably choose someplace else to chill rather than go, "Ohai! DEDZ! Fly shipz nao!" Nomads could at least be played off as the city in Newcastle having a seperate hive-structure/leadership/big-brainedness since its on the opposite side of Sirius from the Dyson Sphere and thus incapable of maintaining mental connection with the others.

While not technically ghosts, they might as well be. If they live and operate in a different frequency then they'd likely go through the bloody seat of the ship. The only reason we're able to touch matter is because out atoms are operating on the same frequency, otherwise we'd go through it. Unless they have super-mind powerz and can control what they want to fall through, this doesn't quite make sense.

as said by marburg there are scientific ways to interpret it.

Perhaps these aliens have developed phasing technology which allows them to phase in and out of the normal material frequency everything works on, that would allow them to travel through walls, or even become invisible. If you can phase in and out like that, then you probably have related technology which gives you some pretty hefty control over matter itself, and you would be able to easily alter what you look like - so you could take on the physical appearance and form of a human, while not being a human.

It gives a new twist on the infestation thing - rather than being nomads that act as parasites inside a human body, they simply make themselves look human. It doesnt allow them to manipulate security systems and such like the nomads could by infesting high-ranking members of the military or government, but it does allow them to blend in with the general human populace.

Now, if I go with that line of thinking for the race, they would be technologically advanced and fairly powerful on their own; I'd probably set them up as another alien group which was opposed to the daam k'vosh / c'tan / slomon'khara - so they wouldnt really be concerned with fighting humans, but would be another alien race vying for power in this part of the galaxy. If I do decide to go with that idea, then they'll probably be unlinked from gaia and put somewhere out beyond the borderworlds in unexplored space - if the group is successful, then maybe when 4.86 comes around we can get a unique system added to the group and maybe even some unique ships for them. It will just take a lot of work to get to that point.

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