' Wrote:great render... but how does come a complete nomad into a human without insert a egg into the unlicky guy?
The tentacle-neck with the starfish looking thing can apparently come out of the throat and mouth and "kiss" a human, releasing the spore/egg/seed into their mouth--kinda like the hand creature in "Alien". Then I assume it gestates in there.
but if i will be "kissed" by i nomad i will know that im dead and a blue alien with lightning eyes will use my body instead of myself
every normal will try to suicide
so there must be a way for the nomads to take over a human with a full grown individual
In the cutscene with President Jacobi, she is locked into a metal harness and held upside down. So it makes sense that infectees would resist or try to suicide and that other infectees--the Wild--would subdue and restrain them.. The Chancellor says he resisted at first too until he began to see more clearly. So in time, the Nomad is able to subdue the personality. I imagine it can't take an incredibly long time as they were going to infect the president and return her under full control with no one knowing. A public figure could not vanish for a prolonged period of time.
Quote:Nice render Tink but, Nomads don't actually "go into" the person/animal/thing they want to infest. They plant a seed as it were. A little baby Nomad that will grow on its own. So, if you'd like you could take that into account and create a free-er-ish version?
As requested, here is an image of the "non-adult" Nomad --during the presumed "egg cycle".
The "stasis" phase would be a hard surfaced egg carried internally by the Nomad parasite.
The "pre-hatch" would be the egg after it was deposited in a suitable host. The external shell has softened and fractured as cilia sprout through it. The cilia would help move it through the windpipe to the lungs (so as to avoid being digested). As cilia are not strong and allow only for minuscule motion, this would also make sense of President Jacobi being suspended upside down. If she was right side up, she could swallow hard and with the addition of gravity possibly get the egg into her stomach where it would be destroyed by stomach acid. By being inverted, it makes swallowing less effective and increases the chance of it lodging in the windpipe where the cilia could move it on to the lungs (otherwise, hanging her upside down was just stupid). There, the "egg" would soften more and then the waking "Nomad" would push through the egg sack.
The last phase, "emergent", shows the juvenile Nomad emerging from the egg.
By my estimation, it would then make a small slit in the lung and migrate to the sternum. The "wings" would grow about the rib cage and meet behind the spine where specialized cilia threads would infiltrate the spinal cord and nervous system. The tail would anchor on a suitable structure to keep it from being dislodged and the serpentine neck and starfish-like head would attach to the trachea. Here's a frontal view:
With the energy obviously emitted through the host's eyes and mouth during the video, we could assume Nomads can manipulate some radiation. Perhaps they are able to shield the host from some radiation effects which might also let them seem invisible to x-rays and electromagnetic scans. This would explain the ability of infectees to often go undetected. It might take comprehensive blood and tissue sample analysis to detect a Nomad's presence in a host--or an autopsy.
In the Jacobi-Chancellor scene, this would have been the "flowering" head pushing through the slit it normally seals in the trachea and out through the host's mouth--with the intent of planting a "kiss" on its inverted new victim whereupon it would expel a new egg. I would assume the Nomad body must be elastable (like a flatworm) so it could flatten inside the body and stretch out through the windpipe and clear of the hosts mouth. The video seems to demonstrate that effect too. So this is a good explanation for the whole thing.
Make sense?
I chose the "pearl" look because I read someone's rp story and it had a small pearl which struck me as a hint that it was a Nomad "egg". Didn't want to conflict. So it starts out pearl-like in the dormant stage then softens to a gelatinous texture like an amphibian egg once planted.
Not trying to "take over" the Nomad storyline but this is a plausible and pseudo-scientific rationale that meshes well with vanilla and how we play here on Discovery.
This is all free for anyone to steal and use as they wish.
Pretty cool. Wish I'd had a bit more knowledge in anatomy, alas. Nevertheless that is quite interesting research and does make a sense. Don't want to "steal" but rather want to integrate into lore doc, with credit given of course.
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