 June 9, 2011 - 4:59pm | Inspired to start this after a CaptainRags comment in this thread: http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/4525#comment-19910 So the scope of this thread is to discuss the race, its speculative biology, philosophy, methods, practices and anything that makes up the race. Art, and etc are all fair game but technology should be in another thread. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 9, 2011 - 6:17pm | A clikk military exploration vessel, mapping in the area of Starmist,
had problems that required dumping of extra weight. Unloaded on STarmist
were a tank of advanced design and all nonessential personnel.
Nonessential personnel included the Heliopes. Before leaving the Clikks
subjected the heliopes to a mindwipe that caused amnesia. Item #1: Clikks employed military exploration vessels whose mission was to map- why military vessels and not civilian? A military exploration vessel carrying the tank? the tank itself being on board could be for 2 reasons: A. its the clikk version of an explorer B. its considered neccessary equipment because of the feared or expected encounters- which in turn suggest the reason that it was a military exploration vessel. Item #2: they're mapping in the region of Starmist which could imply that there is other evidence/artifacts in that same region: Starsystems like Araks, Scree Fron, Capella, Mechan,and Athor could all hold artifacts or evidence. Item #3: The ship had problems requiring the dumping of wt. This tells us something about their tech but what that is I'm unsure of at this time. Perhaps its as simple as lightening the ship to reach escape velocity. Which would make sense that they ditch the tank. Item #4: Nonessential personnel are left behind and recieve a mindwipe the resembles amnesia. Apparently the clikks employ serfs or slaves that they can dispense with as they will. They have an advance form of mind manipulation being able to wipe a mind and could even have a form of gene forming tech.the use of mind wipes and slaves suggests an exploitive attitude but from the technology angle they certianly possess advance bio sciences. Item #5: is more proper for the other clikk thread. Item #6: The Clikk never returned- either the ship never made it back home, or the off loaded cargo was considered expendable, perhaps the "wounded ship" encountered whatever they needed their militarty assets for. Item #5 Why did the clikk's bother to mindwipe expendables that they were jettisoning like so much dead weight? It could have been, from their perspective, motivated by compassion. If that is so it adds a new wrinkle my mental image of the clikks. Or it could have been about preventing usable intel from ever falling into the hands of their enemy but then why not destroy the tank and kill the heliopes? Perhaps it was an individual aberation of compassion on the part of the ship's captain, not wishing to kill his loyal personnel but required to not allow military secrets fall into the wrong hands and hoping that he could return and recover them latter. Anyway there is something about the abandonment and mindwipe of the heliopes that can tell us something about the clikk's personality or philosophy I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 10, 2011 - 4:06am | PBS is always giving me ideas- what do you all think of sexual cannibalism for the clikk? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_cannibalism its a different wrinkle and plays up the bug angle of this race. It also could work to make a female NPC much more sinnister of a character. Perhaps get a bit of a borg queen vibe going particularly if there is a vrusk character in the party that she's trying to seduce in an effort to repopulate her species. Also this is a random thought on the clikk- door ways, port holes, windows and other assundry shapes seen in their buildings and artifacts aught to be hexagonal. Perhaps doorways could have shorter tops and bottoms while the 4 upright sides are longer giving an elongated hexagon shape- this shape would work for the heliopes- but then the heliopes would be expected to conform to their masters not the other way around. Also I noticed some stylized "writing" on the diagram of the tank in the module that was labelled as identification- so we have an example of clikk writing to work with I'm very much of a mind to make the clikks master gene manipulators having developed the heliopes with their buglike features and to write in a back story legend that they may have created the sathar- making it a legen or Frontier myth allows for those who dont like it to call it myth and it doesn't effect their setting and those who do can give it more weight. That said their could even be an insinuation that the vrusk are somehow connected to the clikk (sort of a Romulan/Vulcan connection) though the vrusk in general adamently deny it. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 11, 2011 - 7:23am | I like this pic, its very sinister looking and I think that is the way to go with this race. EDIT. This look for the Clikk is very different from anything that closely resembles the vrusk the resemblance is probably only superficial. B I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 11, 2011 - 7:16pm | Yes I think it is better than earlier depictions of the Klick from Alternity. Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole |
June 11, 2011 - 7:30pm | Here is a picture of the old style if anyone is interested. http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/5429 Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole |
