 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. Frontier News Network Dral-Toon Network (DTN) is suing Cartoon Network of Maderley's Star for their blatant copy of teenage super heroes, the Wonder Twins. |
 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! |
September 6, 2011 - 9:41am | All good ideas come from chat.  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 |
September 6, 2011 - 9:42am | Dralasite Powers Unite, form up jedion357! Someone in the crowd yells, "Hey! Quick, kill it before it multiplies!"   |
 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? |
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. |
 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? |
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. |
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. |
September 9, 2011 - 11:57pm | Why wouldn't the Dralasites have their own history? |
September 10, 2011 - 10:03am | They were found adrift by the vrusk. No info on home world. |
September 10, 2011 - 11:50am | 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! |
September 10, 2011 - 2:32pm | Found by the Vrusk? Where the heck is that in the canon? |
September 10, 2011 - 4:09pm | I read it in the Basic book, back cover. |
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! |
September 11, 2011 - 8:47am | I thought that it said they had been communicating, not that the Vrusk discovered them, per se... |
 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... Oh humans!!  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? |
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... |
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! |
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!! 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? |
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? |
