@Terminal, I have also made an NPC nation. Is it okay? If it needs any changes, I'll fix it. Or do we not need a NPC?
@Terminal, I have also made an NPC nation. Is it okay? If it needs any changes, I'll fix it. Or do we not need a NPC?
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We can have NPCs, but I would not go as far as to say we have NPC nations sheets. In @Willy Vereb's case they might just want to settle for including a list of NPC factions and planet-states surrounding their territory along with brief descriptions of them.
These aren't poster nations, so they don't exactly pull focus - and they are also NPCs, which means anyone can use them. Employ with caution.
In runs on the notion that beauty is not subjective, and that it can be calibrated to have desired effects upon desired viewers. On the base level it's a broad spectrum 'appreciation' for the various structures and overall composition by which it falls together, with considerations given to a plethora of sensory awareness--running the gamut from sight and sound to smell and electrorecption. On the surface this just means bituman's have 'making worlds pretty' down to a science.
Beauty is subjective between species. There might even be species which do not have a concept of beauty. So yes, it would very much need to be adjusted and specifically calibrated for specific species.
The personal pull comes from interaction with bitumans and exposure to bituman culture--with intensity on the effect proportionate to the time one remains immersed. This is because subliminal messages lace just about everything one can see/hear or interact with. It relies on the idea of 'pitfalls' based around the type of entertainment or recreation an individual may seek out of their own accord, with the vector of indoctrination calibrated to the specific 'profile' of those most likely to become its targets. What sort of people are likely to look for prostitutes? Illegal substances? Nightclubs? It's an active effort administrated over by some of the most powerful intellects in existence--machine or otherwise.
Think of it like this, soldiers aren't going to call off an attack just because the city their bombarding leaves them awe struck--but immigrants and detainees are going to have a higher turnaround than they would with other nations and operatives in 'deep cover' might end up going native.
That's my take on it anyhow.
I'd say that it would need to be more minutely calibrated if the intention were to target and effect a specific person within a desired timeframe, but as a whole the initiative should be fairly effective. Everything is deterministic, including the psyche. Bitumans can accurately assume certain values to be in place based on approximate levels of intelligence and the activities a person chooses to engage in. Like everything there'd be a margin of error to account for but on the whole I think it's a pretty solid foundation.
A supremely boring post made, but it is late AF and I wanted to get things squared away before I write something actually interesting tomorrow. People near me, if they want to be discovered by the Exploration Fleet, should let me know, and we can get our collaborate on.I have universal translators with a galaxy's wealth of linguistic and other communication knowledge.
Also, how are we going to do the deciphering of alien languages?
@Willy VerebSo, I'll leave it to you whether or not your nation detects the tachyon sensor burst (hopefully I wrote that well enough to make sense in the post). Just thought it might be an interesting way to say "hello."Well, it'll probably take a good while to reach me but I'll react when it's appropriate, yes.