Let's talk aliens.

[barrenwzste]

are you missing hybrids?...

globalplayer-svk

No, I'm not missing hybrids. I was meaning mentally in that sense. They don't understand our mental process, as was shown by thier failed attempts in the original story line, any better than we do thiers.

Or the fact that human knowledge isn't well hidden (rather the opposite), and that the Nomads gain the knowledge of anyone they infest?

Sovereign

They gain the knowledge of what that person knows, yes, that doesn't mean they understand the hows and whys of our mental processes. First off, 99.9 percent of humanity doesn't understand itself, and second most of the "facts" we know, are wrong. We memorise it wrong, we mess it up through the fog of time, or we just plain form erroneous conclusions. Then take into the account that knowledge of a thing and the ability to use it do not equate to mastery of or knowledge of it's inner workings. Any idiot knows about gravity. Most have a grasp of it's meaning to, not only us, but the physical universe. Few understand the mechanics of it. And none can prove it as anything other than a local effect. (FYI: Gravity is a theory, it cannot be proven as of yet, look it up, it's pretty interesting.)

Basically, Strom, you have no idea what you're talking about. There's no reason to suggest that Nomad telepathy is based on easy-to-reproduce electromagnetic waves, nor any reason to suggest that acting spontaneously and spazzing out will make them react in any manner other than "wow, this guy's crazy, should be easy to kill him".

Sovereign

First, don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. We are to a point in the game where we are making the mythos ourselves, and that makes my input as valuable as yours. It could very well be that what I say will become cannon and what you say discarded like the mornings bowel movement. Get over yourself.

Second, I didn't state that it would be easily reproduced, in fact if you read my earlier post on this you would know I state quite the opposite. What I state is that if it exists, it can be reproduced. We find it, reproduced it, and weaponize it. That's what humans do best.

Third, there is, actually, evidence that thier cohesion falls apart in battle. It's the way we won in the original story line. They outnumbered us, had us on tech-level, and even on pilot skill. But we won. Why? I think it's because we surprised them. They couldn't predict us, couldn't keep up with our mental agility. Part of that is, no doubt, because if you give an entity to much to think about, to much to do, it overloads. Try it yourself. With your left hand type, "I love fun." over and over. With your right hand juggle two eggs. With your right foot tap a continous beat, bum bum bumumum bum bumpity bump. With your left foot bounce a soccer ball. You aren't going to be able to do it long, if at all, and certainly not without total concentration. Any interruption will cause you to lose it all. This is true of all entities. Overload it, and it fails at the given tasks.

And lastly, we know that there are not that many of them. That means that each entity has to controll multiples of ships. Now, say in a given patrol there are ships controlled by multiple entities, then, since there are so few nomads, each entity will control multiple ships, in multiple patrols, making the strain all the greater. We have the numbers to overwhelm them with sensory input from battle. One on one, the tactics I envisioned would merely give you the advantage of being totally unpredictable, no small matter in battle. How many of you use tactics that allow you to predict what your opponent is going to do next so as to hit them with a slower moving weapon? However, if we do it enmass, we not only ruin thier battle predictions, we overload them, making thier responses more sluggish and less precise, enhancing our own advantage.

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"Two things I know; Gravity sucks and Ion Storms blow. And that proves the universe is trying to kill us all" - Barren Waste, Captain of the Wasteland Wanderer

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