Your vision about the nomads.

[sovereign]

Wilde exist for the sole purpose of manipulating humans more or less. When a nomad enters the human body the human mind doesn't exist anymore, its subdued and impossible to fight back. Thus in essence Wilde are pure nomads, just in human bodies. So you're a bit off there. Also, nomads are individuals linked to a network with other individuals, per se, a peer to peer network, that's what mindshare is. An instant telepathic network that makes every bit of information they see, gather or know, instantly available to everyone else in the nomad race.

Not necessarily. Considering what the Nomad has to do to maintain control of the human's body, it would be barraged by the human's thoughts. Even though they would be easy to dismiss, they would still be present. Think of it as having some radicalist talk-show host's words play in your mind continuously. They're ridiculous, but eventually don't you think that even the most jaded of people would be affected by them, even if not converting to them? Even the act of ignoring the flood of information is a change.

Not to mention how much harder it is to control a lobotomized human... still an option if they prove uncannily successful in subverting the Incubus. Think about it, if you could let the human's brain handle all the "involuntary" things like respiration, circulation, digestion, reflexes, etc, how much more effort could you put toward being aware or reacting faster in combat? It only gets better if you leave enough of the human to actually use their own combat training, while either tricking, coercing, or converting them into willingly fighting for you... with the added benefits of perfect ship to ship coordination, perfect battlefield awareness, etc...

Yes, there's a legit reason not to lobotomize your host. Unless your host has anime anti-hero levels of mental discipline and hides some ridiculous personal strength from you for years, there's no chance of the human actually breaking free, only a chance of their effectiveness approaching that of the lobotomized ones.

I might want to add that to the infestation explanation I wrote, seems it didn't sink in as much as was intended. My bad.

Anyway, Wild still exist for the purpose of manipulating humans, in no small part because they're better able to make use of human technology. The value of their tactical input and insight into how humanity in general functions is not to be overlooked, but is more of a beneficial side effect at this point. There are still imbedded infested humans operating in society for such a purpose, but they are far less valuable than they used to be.



Translating that into easier terms, yes, the human's mind doesn't always get lobotomized, although the Nomad has final say in everything (the Nomad replaces a significant portion of the brain stem for this purpose... kind of hard to muscle past that). The Nomads have their own personalities, but they are connected very closely. Think very close siblings that tell each other everything and have complete faith in one another. Then exaggerate it a thousandfold. There are still at the heart of it different people, but they are so closely linked that an outsider might not be able to tell them apart.


Oh yeah, believe it or not, but the Nomads do in fact have other goals than ***DESTROY***. Although that should be pretty obvious for anyone who's read the Liberty and Nomad backstories carefully.


Anyway, while the Lore is still getting added to (41 pages so far, but quite dense pages), I think it's reasonable for people to ask questions. And while it may be necessary to pop an idea that doesn't fit, it shouldn't be done with malice or anything, to be fair they didn't know.

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