How do the Breen eat?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:09 pm

Teaos wrote:Not really. I could just take a change in diet and eating paterns. If you dont eat enough to form a fat layer you wont get one.

The trait is still there though, so any excess calories will likely go into a fat layer.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:19 pm

Quite true, Kendall, though they may have had thousands of years. We don't know how long they had civilisation for, how long it took them to form communities, how long it took them to achieve space flight, etc. As soon as they start skinning animals for their fur to wear, then the trait becomes mostly uneccasary. It would definitely take a while, but I'd say it's possible.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:16 pm

Rochey wrote:Quite true, Kendall, though they may have had thousands of years. We don't know how long they had civilisation for, how long it took them to form communities, how long it took them to achieve space flight, etc. As soon as they start skinning animals for their fur to wear, then the trait becomes mostly uneccasary. It would definitely take a while, but I'd say it's possible.

Like much of Trek, we lack the important details. Most of the races are a result of the Precursors seeding worlds and if the Breen are actually what Weyoun says they are than their probably not that different than us. Maybe they live in cooling suits to prolong their lives, like deep water clams. Assuming Weyoun is even telling the truth.

Post by **Teaos** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:22 pm

If they are used to living in freezing temperatures I doubt they could easily handle hotter temps for any length of time.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:45 pm

Most of the races are a result of the Precursors seeding worlds

Quite true, though I tend to ignore that idiocy.

if the Breen are actually what Weyoun says they are than their probably not that different than us. Maybe they live in cooling suits to prolong their lives, like deep water clams. Assuming Weyoun is even telling the truth.

What as it Weyoun said about them?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:55 pm

Rochey wrote:
What as it Weyoun said about them?

That their world was quite pleasant. I can't remember the episode it was in so it's hard to come up with a quote.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:59 pm

Weyoun was in general a sarcastic bastard, so I would take that comment with a grain (or a thousand) of salt.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:18 pm

That their world was quite pleasant.

Well, there's a few ways we can go with that;

A) We can take this as meaning that the Breen homeworld is quite pleasant, and can support human life quite comfortably. This should mean that the planet isn't actualy the arctic wasteland you'd expect it to be. From this we can infer that the Breen must have evolved somewhere around the poles, and thus in a cold enviroment. Perhaps when they got the technology to keep themselves cold, they moved south/north to the warmer areas. What's surprising about this, though, is that there wasn't any evolutionary group that evolved the capability to live in warmer enviroments. Or perhaps there was, and the cold-enviroment Breen killed them off.

B) Weyoun was being sarcastic, and the planet is inhospitable to human life. This brings us straight back to square one.

C) The world may have been inhospitable to humans, but Weyoun's species can survive in such enviroments quite comfortably, hence why he'd describe it as pleasant.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:23 pm

Rochey wrote: A) We can take this as meaning that the Breen homeworld is quite pleasant, and can support human life quite comfortably. This should mean that the planet isn't actualy the arctic wasteland you'd expect it to be. From this we can infer that the Breen must have evolved somewhere around the poles, and thus in a cold enviroment. Perhaps when they got the technology to keep themselves cold, they moved south/north to the warmer areas. What's surprising about this, though, is that there wasn't any evolutionary group that evolved the capability to live in warmer enviroments. Or perhaps there was, and the cold-enviroment Breen killed them off.

Maybe the Breen homeworld suffered from runaway greenhouses and is now has a nice mild climate.

Personally when I RP in the RP thread I figured the only form of life that could exist without liquids is a sort of mineral-crystaline organism that uses electric currents to perform body functions.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:29 pm

Maybe the Breen homeworld suffered from runaway greenhouses and is now has a nice mild climate.

Quite possible. The Breen don't seem the sort to particularly give a damn about the enviroment until it's too late.

Personally when I RP in the RP thread I figured the only form of life that could exist without liquids is a sort of mineral-crystaline organism that uses electric currents to perform body functions.

I suppose that's possible. After all, we already have numerous crystaline creatures in the Trek universe.

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:05 am

By pleasent he may not have seen taking about the climate. It could be that the planet has a huge supply of booze and strippers.

Blackstar the Chakat · Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:36 pm

Reliant121 wrote:Perhaps the minerals in food is shunted directly into the blood stream...assuming they have blood...

They don't have blood. Said so in the dominion camp. The Romulan said they couldn't test the Breen to see if he was a founder because he didn't have blood.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:05 pm

ChakatBlackstar wrote: They don't have blood. Said so in the dominion camp. The Romulan said they couldn't test the Breen to see if he was a founder because he didn't have blood.

If they come from a cold world or maintain their bodies below a certain temperature they wouldn't be able to have it, it would freeze. Perhaps a biological ant-freeze equivilant would be used.

Blackstar the Chakat · Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:18 pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:If they come from a cold world or maintain their bodies below a certain temperature they wouldn't be able to have it, it would freeze.

Oh duh*smacks own head* I should've thought of that.

I'm not an expert on biology, but is it possible for a complex life form like the breen to exist without blood?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:20 pm

ChakatBlackstar wrote:
Oh duh*smacks own head* I should've thought of that.

I'm not an expert on biology, but is it possible for a complex life form like the breen to exist without blood?

Perhaps, if they had ammonia or alcohol in it than they could buy themselves survival in far lower temperatures. How cold is their world and suits supposed to be anyways?