DITL Species 9- Technology Level

How Technobably Advanced?

Poll ended at Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:26 am

A) On Par with ENT level
0
No votes
B) Delta Quadrant Medium
8
44%
C) Alpha - Beta Quadrant Mediums
8
44%
D) Within a few hundred years more advanced than Federation.
1
6%
E) Voth level technology
0
No votes
F) Fantastically advanced technologies.
0
No votes
G) Q level.
1
6%
H) Modern Earth
0
No votes
I) Pre-atomic.
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No votes
 
Total votes: 18
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Re: DITL Species 9- Technology Level

Post by Lt. Staplic »

I went with B, put them a little while behind the Feds technologicly, but still an important industrial and political power in the region.
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Re: DITL Species 9- Technology Level

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Hell, a single world with 10 IQ spread between them would do better then the UFP on and industrial scale. Not just for any single region of space but for a whole quadrant.
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I'm moving my vote to AQ-BQ. I really don't want to see the new race behind everyone else in the region in technology.
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Deep, the question is what tech level they're at. Not what type of tech they have. You can go for UFP-par and still have them highly competant.
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I want them to have worse than average tech, it means they have to try harder and be smarter with it.
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Rochey wrote:Deep, the question is what tech level they're at. Not what type of tech they have. You can go for UFP-par and still have them highly competant.
Or you can have them be Voth level technology and have them be horribly incompetent :P
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Monroe wrote:Or you can have them be Voth level technology and have them be horribly incompetent :P
Personally, I'm tired of seeing incompetents. A lower tech race that has to squeeze out every bit of effectiveness from its technology to make itself equal to the other races is interesting. The Cardassians started out as this.

I voted for lower technology to make a race that will do its best to trade or conquer for advanced technology secrets. Espionage will be difficult, as the drones that are sent out will likely not have the necessary intelligence to perform proper espionage. Now if they can conquer another race, and use them for espionage, that would be interesting.

That would make them an interesting threat, where they use client races for their purposes, and even have a client race commanding their ships (with a pheromone band so the drones don't attack the 'intruder'). The protagonists have to peel back the layers, until they finally realize the sessile fungal growths are the governing intelligences.
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Post by Mikey »

I tend to agree, though I'm not sure about servant/client caste races. I think I'd rather see some advancement and expansion from the baseline before that point. I do like the idea of a race that isn't the most advanced but has the motivation to make the most of their capabilities.
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The option for drones didn't win out in the poll. We have extremely long lived hive people who reproduce once every 20-30 years. Don't ask ;)
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Who picked Q level? :?
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Monroe wrote:The option for drones didn't win out in the poll. We have extremely long lived hive people who reproduce once every 20-30 years. Don't ask ;)
When did someone say every 20-30 years??? I thought they just had a slow rate so they just wont turn out a hundred kids per.
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Rochey wrote:Who picked Q level? :?
A wank.
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[...] a hundred kids per.
A wank.
Are you having a problem finishing off your posts today? :P
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Re: DITL Species 9- Technology Level

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Nope. Check out TNG. No problem running things out. It's just those didn't need anything more said.
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Re: DITL Species 9- Technology Level

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Ah, we're reading the cliff-notes version of Deep's posts. Got it. :wink:
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