Let's talk aliens.

[Treewyrm]

@Immunity: Once again, I'll repeat myself by saying that how Nomads will end in Discovery, if ever, is not up to you, period. Furthermore I see you haven't been attentive to the lore given that you do not realize that individual Nomad node and physical manifestation aren't the same thing. Come back when you've read it.

@jammi: Now if only your "flushing" of A Level course in biology would be useful here for anything other than arguing... But like said I have no interest in arguing, nor have a need to, my knowledge in that field is very low, hence I drew inspiration for the Nomads from other fields, heavily influenced by various computing network structures. I'd be more happy if your knowledge would instead benefit the lore rather than wasting my time in argues, case point turning it into something constructive and useful.

Also battleships are pretty much limited to Omicron 99 starting from 4.85, cruisers are way too rare sight at all given no NPC flying them. Opposed to the previous version where battleship patrols were a lot more common. Their numbers are diminishing somewhat, in terms of overall roleplay, reflected by that change, but not because of biological warfare. And I don't recall those kind of ships knocking at the door often enough (none in terms of NPCs and very rare in terms of PCs) to make these kind of weapons actually useful. Too many downsides and little point in them. May be just a single prototype for a story and that's all, frankly I can't see such idea going farther than that.

Discuss "what if" cases and so on as much as you want for as long as it's explicitly specified as being not related to Discovery (hence goes different forum section), no problem with that.