Dralasite See, Dralasite Do

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Anonymous
September 6, 2011 - 9:33am
There are a couple different version of the game.
One, you take turns mimicking each-other. The dral that can't take the shape of his partner looses.
Two, shapes are shown to the participants, whoever can mimic the shape moves to the next round. 

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jedion357
September 6, 2011 - 9:38am
You stole that from me! ;)
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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w00t (not verified)
September 6, 2011 - 9:41am
All good ideas come from chat. Smile 

Thomas:  Monkey See Monkey Do
 Sent at 12:26 PM on Tuesday
me: reminds me of a game
dralasite see, dralasite do
follow the leader if you can't shape it you loose 
 Sent at 12:28 PM on Tuesday

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w00t (not verified)
September 6, 2011 - 9:42am
Dralasite Powers Unite, form up jedion357!

Someone in the crowd yells, "Hey! Quick, kill it before it multiplies!"

Wink Foot in mouth

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rattraveller
September 6, 2011 - 1:40pm
Anyone catch that game show where a wall with a shape cut out of it moved toward a person or group of people and they had to make the shape to pass through the wall? Me neither probably why it was cancelled but that is the game for Dralasites.
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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w00t (not verified)
September 6, 2011 - 1:56pm
Rat,
Your describing a dralasite torture technique, the walls are electrified, acidic, sharp, etc. Make the form or suffer the consequences. 

:-)

RatTwin Powers Unite, form of a Stainless Steel Travelling Rat!
Heh, nobody will suspect us... nobody.



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Imperial Lord
September 9, 2011 - 1:57pm
Or maybe there is a bag with all sorts of random shapes and one of the drals reaches into the bag and the first one to form the shape of the drawn statuette wins?

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w00t (not verified)
September 9, 2011 - 11:44pm
Saying goodbye in dral; smell you later. Dral are fond of the human game Sharaids. Dral spies attune their bodies to fit into tight quarters on ships and stations. Dral doctors are often requested by other races for their beside manners.

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w00t (not verified)
September 9, 2011 - 11:48pm
Dral sport of Splunk. See who can make a bigger cannon ball splash. Dral are fond of other race history for they have little of their own. They especially like human coyboys and pirates.

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Imperial Lord
September 9, 2011 - 11:57pm
Why wouldn't the Dralasites have their own history?

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w00t (not verified)
September 10, 2011 - 10:03am
They were found adrift by the vrusk. No info on home world.

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jedion357
September 10, 2011 - 11:50am
w00t wrote:
They were found adrift by the vrusk. No info on home world.
My interpretation of an AD statement. But I start modern dralasite history with their discovery by the vrusk.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

Imperial Lord's picture
Imperial Lord
September 10, 2011 - 2:32pm
Found by the Vrusk?  Where the heck is that in the canon?

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w00t (not verified)
September 10, 2011 - 4:09pm
I read it in the Basic book, back cover.

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jedion357
September 10, 2011 - 8:07pm
I knew I had read somewhere that the vrusk had discovered the dralasites but the bit about them being adrift and found by the vrusk is a bit of jedion cannon; developed as I restled with the missing homeworld issue.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Imperial Lord
September 11, 2011 - 8:47am
I thought that it said they had been communicating, not that the Vrusk discovered them, per se...

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thespiritcoyote
September 11, 2011 - 1:26pm

  I read it as the Dralasite were found by the Vrusk via Tachyon Communications... the Vrusk/Dralasite preparations for physical meeting were later intercepted by Humans in some jovian outpost via a Technical Glitch experimenting with Tachyon-based Power Generation... and were then invited by the Dralasite to the party...
 This is the info I extrapolated from many scattered short side notes in some obscure paragraphs throughout the books...
  I spent several months compiling every last scrap of info on first contact and pre-contact histories... it is VERY scattered and obscure for being such a historically significant event...

Over-all I get the impression that the people of the frontier don't care what came before... History for them starts with the Frontier Arrivals... and doesn't really become significant until after the first conflicts and plagues... and the beginnings of SW-I... Even the Vrusk have culturally given-up on the idea of ever going home...

  I support a view of a rich Dralasite homeworld history, complete with the extinct branches of ergivores that could feed on sunlight and hot-spring, the Neanderdral solitary-hunters that had a body covered in cilia, and the smooth skined Dral-magnon that used flagella for scavenging, being two of the most well known...
  With interbreeding in, on, and around shared carrion and feeding grounds both of these sub-genera species (and some other less prolific cousins) merged into the Dralmorphis Spherisite (and some lesser known modern variants), and adopt agrarian social systems...
  Some half-million years later modern Dralmorphis Spherisite was the dominate species in a space-race for the stars using their new Smarter-Than-Light Drives... when one of the Search for Philosophically Unusual Debate stations picked up unknown communications in the Tachyon Bands...

...oops, I went off on a philippic deluge again... Innocent

Oh humans!! Innocent We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".
~ anymoose, somewhere on the net...

so...
if you square a square it becomes a cube...
if you square a cube does it become an octoid?

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Imperial Lord
September 14, 2011 - 6:37am
Well coyote -

Not so much that the people of the Frontier don't care about the origins...  More like the designers of the game did not!  At least not in 1981 when the game was conceived...

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jedion357
September 14, 2011 - 6:41am
In the words of Luke Skywalker, "I care."
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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thespiritcoyote
September 14, 2011 - 1:55pm
The dynamic media-saturating capable society of the major populations, have less interest in what happened so-long-ago, than which holo-vid star is most popular, or where their bff shops for high-fashion accessories... is what I mean.

The average citizen doesn't get the sky-eye view of the frontier as laid out in the books and web-sites... the designers cared, but it was for other non-setting reasons that they gave ambiguous beginnings... the fictional average guy in the frontier has no interest in pre-frontier history, as more recent history of his local origins are more pertinent to local law and custom.
Oh humans!! Innocent We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".
~ anymoose, somewhere on the net...

so...
if you square a square it becomes a cube...
if you square a cube does it become an octoid?

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rattraveller
September 14, 2011 - 5:57pm
The origins of the four races were not important to the story so they were left out. Remember this is a game of stories and for the stories they wanted to tell. Maybe in the grand expansions we would have gotten it but I doubt it.
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?