Mercurius on 3/10/2007 at 04:25
Quote Posted by SulphurPuttyPancake
But does anyone have the script handy for when you research the Rumbler organ? I'm sure it's a further-evolved human hybrid, where the worm has completely taken over and converted almost all the host's tissues to annelid.
Not sure without checking the 'reports' script for the organ tho.
I recall that Rumblers have very uncomfortable looking human faces (or just one face) lodged in their flesh giving the impression that it is an advanced mutation of a human hybrid.
Some_twerp on 4/10/2007 at 15:57
All very true, but the rumblers have bulked up considerably from the hybrid form, and that biomatter/flesh/whatever to make all the extra muscle's gotta come from somewhere.
At least, that's the way I see it.
Ahkaskar on 4/10/2007 at 18:35
I think it would be logical to assume that The Many recycle discarded biomass, including empty eggs and rumbler bodies, as the rumbler body is only a "non-sentient" shell around the developing Psi-Reaver. Between all the eggs brought up from TC-V (and perhaps even other things), dead crewmembers, waste and food, there's plenty of organic matter to go around.
SulphurPuttyPancake on 4/10/2007 at 19:35
Quote Posted by Ahkaskar
I think it would be logical to assume that The Many recycle discarded biomass, including empty eggs and rumbler bodies, as the rumbler body is only a "non-sentient" shell around the developing Psi-Reaver. Between all the eggs brought up from TC-V (and perhaps even other things), dead crewmembers, waste and food, there's plenty of organic matter to go around.
I didn't know the Psi-Reavers were further evolved Rumblers, although re-reading the rumbler dat. above suggests it.:idea:
I suppose that's why the brain develops but has no motor control over the host, the Rumbler would run around as the brain gets more powerful, then would find a quiet out-of-the-way place to die. The annelid tissue would drop off (presumably to be recycled by the many) leaving the now hugely advanced, psionically active brain to project it's own image.
There is still the question of where all the boimass of the many comes from, even amongst crew, food rations and eggs it wouldn't be enough the engulf the ship...
Just hypothesising but the replicator technology would allow enough foodstuffs to be created, so the annelids would need a human host to go hacking the replicators... aren't there a bunch of logs about crew members going a little crazy and taking out the replicators?
Ahkaskar on 4/10/2007 at 20:37
Well, there were "hundreds" of eggs on TC-V. And I'd imagine there was plenty of matter readily available to be converted into organic material. It's not too much of a stretch of the imagination, especially when you consider that the BotM only wraps around the smaller Rickenbacker, and is mostly hollow.
The replicator couldn't create matter, though. Nanites could be used to process existing matter into physical objects, but the matter would have to come from somewhere. I would assume that this would be available elsewhere on the ship, possibly piped in as loose particles from some tank somewhere. That source that could be big enough and have enough material to fuel a heaping pile of bio-mass.
But yes, someone hacked the replicators. One of the first ghosts you find on Med/Sci not far from Cryo says something akin to, "Someone hacked the replicators again. I better tell Delacroix."
Mercurius on 5/10/2007 at 00:34
Quote Posted by Some_twerp
All very true, but the rumblers have bulked up considerably from the hybrid form, and that biomatter/flesh/whatever to make all the extra muscle's gotta come from somewhere.
At least, that's the way I see it.
That probably explains where all the damn food on the VB went. Aside from the potato chips that the monkeys stole.
