Let's talk aliens.

[jammi]

And what would you assassinate? An individual Nomad entity? There are no "leaders" so to speak, no key figures to assassinate that would cause things to topple down. There is no hive queen. Hive model is heavily centralized, Nomads' is decentralized, akin to distributed peer networks.

Now I don't want to sound rude, but the bottom line is that as the nomads' lore editor I can always push the "down-it-goes" red button flushing all your "biological warfare" dreams since it's all based on assumption they have similar structure (which they don't) so mechanics would be similar too. Unless you have actual suggestions and ideas that would be interesting in long-term use I have no interest in arguing here. If you'd like to be constructive I'm all ears, until then solid "no" stamp goes there.

How Nomads will end in Discovery and when (if ever) is a different subject and I believe you are not a candidate for the discussion of it, nor this is a place for it.

I just enjoy hypothetical discussion, plus I'm doing a A Level course in biology that I can't actually use for anything at the moment. So it's getting flushed out here.

But the point is, it's silly to just say 'no, Nomads are autoimmune to all diseases/pathogens', because nothing is - engineered or not. The DK probably would have given them inbuilt immunity to the various diseases that were about in their day, but consider mutations, and it's a completely new disease. Fair enough, at least they'll be able to adapt to and recognise native proteins, but if it's say, a pathogen dragged over from Sol... That's unknown ground.

Y'see the thing is, it's because humans and Nomads are different that they'd be vunerable (see the proteins thing above).

Unknown/unrecognisable proteins means no corresponding antibodies which means no immunity. Fair point on the leaders as well. I know Nomads don't have leaders due to the Mindshare, and the only Nomads that would be missed if murdered are tucked away in distant and well protected facilities that humans wouldn't be able to get at.

Still, can you see the side affects of a long range Order bomber wing downing a battleship's shields then hitting it with a mutagenic/cancerous flesh eating bacteria? True, there's no future for this ingame, but it might be cool for RP stories (where both sides have consented and are participated - no call for powergaming...).

As I said, I'm just venting theory that is jammed up in my head. And I like arguing. As I said.

EDIT: I have read it, so I know the mind of the afflicted Nomad would just be redownloaded from it's last 'save' and placed back into a body. I'm just saying that wasting Nomad resources is good for humans, as is taking out heavier craft. Sure it'll be back later, but it just means you don't have a battleship and cruiser group knocking at the door there and then.

And I'm not interested in determining the Nomad's end. I'm here for the theoretical argument.

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