 May 3, 2010 - 11:37am | Page 30 of DRZebs has a Robot Malfunction Effect table the eqplanation for haywire reads: "...It might....recite The Dralasitic Creed..." Enquiring minds (mine) want to know just what is The Dralasitic Creed? I have yet to really invest any serious thought into this topic yet but I wanted to get the ball rolling within the community and spark debate and discussion. Having a written creed would make a great bit of fluff that, I for one would likely have my favorite dral PC quote from it from time to time like Quark quoting the Ferrengi Rules of Acquisition Some general thoughts: 1. since it is THE Dralasitic Creed, it is likely something that is endorsed or generally followed by an overwhelmingly vast majority of dralasites. even a dral that paid little attention to it their whole life will suddenly find themselves reflecting on it after generating offspring and feeling the responsibility of parenthood. 2. It is likely Philosophical in nature 3. I may enshrine a dralasitic basic code of conduct and or moral code "The 5 Apendages" Examples from other sources: The Hebrew Shema: "Hear O Isreal, the Lord our god is One LORD." From the Islams 5 Pillars: "There is no god but Allah and Mohamed is his prophet." Christian tradition: The 10 Commandments Theravada Budism: there is an analog to the 10 Commandments Mormanism & BSG "War of the Gods II" (original series) : "As man is god was, as god is man will be." Star Trek: The Ferengi Rules of Aquisition (180+ rules IIRC) "Once you have their money, never give it back." also "War is bad for business." and of course, "War is good for business." Star Trek: Vulcan's version of the Hebrew Shema: "Infinite Diversity from infinite combination." Triva- Lenard Nimoy, as a young boy in the synagogue peeked when everyone was supposed to have their heads bowed and eyes closed as the Rabbi prayed over the congregation and the rabbi had both of his hands out streatched in the shape of a jewish letter that was the first letter of God's name. Later on Star Trek they needed a Vulcan greeting and he suggested the Vulcan sign which was this hand sign he saw performed by the rabbi. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
May 3, 2010 - 11:52am | Personally I would like to see a set of statements that were, on the surface, seemingly contradictory. but hints at a deeper wisdom Like in the Ferengi Rule of A. "War is bad for business" & "War is good for business" or in the Proverbs of Solomon: "Answer not a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conciept" which is followed a few verses latter by "Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceipt." Something along the lines of "There is an Inner Truth and an Outer Truth, but ultimate Truth Flows from one to the other." OR Truth is Eternal Truth is Temporal Truth is only realized in the flow from Temporal to Eternal. could also use words like relative and absolute which are important terms in the discussion of truth in a college world views class. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 May 3, 2010 - 11:57am | I have an article submitted that briefly mentions Mol Upon, the dralasite who is credited with unifying the dralasites, establishing the rules of the debate circle, inventing cheese, and everything else good that no one remembers who it stated with. The name Mol is a title kinda like Mahatma and the like. I would think the dralasite creed is a collection of wise sayings credited to the Mol's. Interestingly, in another article I have in the works (put off by my Celestia star map obsession) Mol Upon does not write his own words. There are scribes that record his saying and life. I would also love to write up the dralasite creed. We could put it together from some of our dralasite sayings and grow it here in this project. There is another book/writing mentioned in the Zeb's timeline that gets stolen that I would like to blend in to the history of the Mols. -iggy |
May 3, 2010 - 12:23pm | my purpose exactly, to bash out a series of statements that we can come to a general aggreement on that sound at once wise, dralasitic and philosophical with a small measure of irreverence. also we can create a second document that would be general proverbs written by dralasites over the centuries and some of these could mention the other core four. for example: "If you're already pulling yazirian's leg don't try to pull his mane too." "Never look a gift vrusk in the mandibles." I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 18, 2011 - 12:17am | "Laughter is food" is a good start... |
October 30, 2011 - 8:31am | Sight in dralasites is very different from other sapients. Where other beings see difficulties behind every opportunity, a dralasite sees opportunity behind every difficulty. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 29, 2011 - 6:40am | Black and White are absolutes but in life most things are shades of Gray. Gray can can never be an absolute being in the flow between Black and White. Attributed to Mol Utnitton. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 29, 2011 - 6:46am | Oh, bud, what do you see? Difficulty or Opportunity? They are both but two sides of the same shape. Attributed to Mol Conolonostron I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 27, 2012 - 4:33pm | Dralasite philosophy- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 27, 2012 - 7:10pm | Shape and form are never permanent. Every situation can be changed. |
 March 1, 2012 - 11:48am |
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March 12, 2012 - 2:19pm | Act today to succeed tomorrow. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
March 12, 2012 - 9:06pm | A pasty fluid is good for the soul! |
March 12, 2012 - 9:09pm | Truth is never black and white, often it is buried in the gray. |
January 18, 2015 - 6:12am | "We must become the Change we want to see" "There's more to balance than not falling over." I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 18, 2015 - 6:18am | Truth is never black and white, often it is buried in the gray. How many shades of gray? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 30, 2015 - 7:49pm | Playing a little catch up here but you have gone way to short on these. Most of what you have above are creedos or short one liners. So here is a Creed I had to learn once hope it provides some guidance. Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 31, 2015 - 3:50am | Playing a little catch up here but you have gone way to short on these. Most of what you have above are creedos or short one liners. So here is a Creed I had to learn once hope it provides some guidance. thanks for the input, I had more or less only been using the Apostle's Creed as a guide stick which is more about belief, interesting that the Non Com's creed is more about action. By and large I simply post a tidbit of philosophy/wisdom/something I read in a fortune cookie that struck me as sounding dralasite-ish in this thread so that I can find it latter. I also plan on playing a dralasite at some time that is always spouting bits and pieces of the dralasite creed in game and for that the short creedo's are perfect- print out a sheet of them and review them before every game and as situations develop in game have my character quote from dralasite philosophy or the creed. However, your criticism is that what we have so far is thin and I agree with you on that. I'm trying to shift my mental gears to rise to the challenge here but I keep coming back to the thought that the dralasite creed should be about belief and would thus be more like the apostle's creed and yet perhaps it could use more development. So I agree with you RatT but I'm kind of drawing a blank- no doubt the a dralasite would have a witty saying for that- They would never say "cat got your tongue" unless it was to a human. The dralasite equiv would be something like "has all your fluid run to your extremities?" I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 31, 2015 - 5:05am | Since Dralasites love long drawn out debates their creed I am imagining goes on for several pages and that thousands of hours of debate went into it. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 31, 2015 - 7:41am | Building on the debate relationship with the creed, there should be points and counterpoints in this Dralasitic Creed. To a human not aware of this relationship the creed could sound like a bunch of conflicting nonsense. -iggy |
February 1, 2015 - 5:26am | Well....who wants to vollunteer to write 7 drawn out pages of debate to be the dralasite creed? We do have this article: http://www.frontierexplorer.org/book/dralasitic-creed which was the fruit of discussion on their society We could characterize it as being a basic Human centered understanding of dralasite philosophy. In fact the statement, "dralasite society has a conception of the family similar to humanity" could be used as evidence of the article being a paper written by a human to explain dralasite society and philosophy. I like the point and counter point idea, Iggy. It also occurs to me that the 3 point creed and the 5 appendages could be mixed into a more word sounding creed like that sounds more the the Non Com's creed. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
