 July 26, 2013 - 7:04am | This is the Intersection of a few strands of thought. Building on the fact that sathar brains have 4 visual feeds, the fact that they like to tube brains and that a tubed brain can survive for centuries in this manner, the fact that some people like the idea of a sathar super computer controlling their civilization, and finally the fact that I use to play Star Craft and I found the zerg very sathar-ish: what if the sathar had an Overmind that was a weird fusion of 4 tubed brains and super computer. Lets also postulate the tubed brains being on different planets and and linked to the computer via some method of quantum physics, similar to the subspace radio. That these 4 tubed brains represent the brains behind the four great sathar clans. There could be minor clans that are beholding/dominated by the great clans. The 4 tubed brains are able to communicate with each other as if being in the same room but dont dont all the time (lets face it they've been doing this for centuries and most of the time concern themselves with directing their clan, jockying for better position amongst the four and monitoring the minor clans under their thumb. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 26, 2013 - 7:09am | The overmind is a weird fusion of super computer and the four tubeded brains. When the brains link to it it becomes greater than the sum of its parts and can direct the four great clans to work together to attack the UPF for example. Otherwise they would mire in in-fighting. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 26, 2013 - 7:14am | This divided structure of jockeying for position and monitoring the minor clans has stifled sathar innovation as an innovative clan of a millenium ago disrupted the balance of things and had to be destroyed. Thus innovation is decicded upon by and approved by the overmind. One of its directives has been the order for a counter to the assault scout which lead to attempts to capture one as well as new ship designs like the cutter (the sathar have relied on the same ship designs for centuries). I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 July 26, 2013 - 7:33am | Meld this idea with the great worm. We need a name that is not the overmind because they do not talk to every sathar by telepathy like the zerg. Call it the mind of the worm or something. Have more than four ancient brains but only four can link at a time. Thus the clans jockey for position to get their brain linked in. Keep the super computer as part of it so the other clans can't just make their own. Maybe have the great secret be that the super computer is built from the brain of the last great worm. -iggy |
July 26, 2013 - 8:05am | @ Iggy:thats i like that sathar might refer to it as the will of the worm or voice of the worm. The computer itself has some complicated algorythm by which it ranks clans and no clan can buck the will of the worm lest it be centuries before its "eye" be allowed to link to the mind of the worm. Innovation continues to be approved from the top down and its very dangerous to be percieved to be a small hungry innovative clan. The eye of a clan is the directing tubed brain. All upper class sathar are beholding to it as it controls who may form a cadre of middle and lower claste sathar. Cadre-less upper caste act as princlings and political officers sucking up to the eye in hopes of being able to form a cadre one day. New clans are formed when the mind of the worm decides that a clan should divide and thus a powerful upper caste gets tubed and becomes the eye of part of the divided clan. Its not super comman that this happens. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 26, 2013 - 8:32am | This could also be a last remnant of the system used by the reptilian masters who uplifted them. The prophet or whatever he was called subverted the reptiles by inserting the brain of the last great worm rather than a fifth sather brain so that the reptiles would not have total control over the super computer. The brain of the great worm had not been tinkered with by the reptiles like the sathar had over generations. Thus the reptiles knew no way to influence it. By the time they discovered that it was there the rebellion was near done and they could not physically reach the super computer to unhook it or study it. All they could do was try to hack it. The rebels of course made controlling the star system containing the super computer and the jar of the brain of the great worm their paramount priority. The great worm itself will have been on a massive education quest of it's own as this is the fist time it has ever been endowed with the abilities to learn and communicate at a level surpassing it's natural state and the sathar. Maybe it even has residual animosity at how it's race was used yet worshipped by the sathar. -iggy |
July 26, 2013 - 9:20am | So the last great worm brain is unified to or uploaded to the super computer? Reptilian masters that uplifted? From the recent alternate view of the worms right? I like the idea of an over mind that actually hates or despises the sathar. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 26, 2013 - 9:27am | Perhaps the great worms were dying out, for whatever reason, reptillians ordered it or ecological reasons. Proto sathar had obtained brain tubing tech and when last worm fell ill the tubed the brain to save it. They could no longer commune with it and the sensory deprivation was going to kill it in the tube so they tubed leaders to commune with it. The gestault of the four eyes and the last worm brain has created a new consciousness that is different and greater than the sum of the parts and yet on some level is also like a split personality. Computer? Not needed perhaps. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 26, 2013 - 1:16pm | And the reptilian made super computer that the brains are plugged into still has it's, "control the sathar slaves" programming that the sathar think they have eradicated but rather has morphed into corrupting the personalities of the attaches brains so that they dispise the sathar they came from. -iggy |
July 26, 2013 - 4:38pm | And the reptilian made super computer that the brains are plugged into still has it's, "control the sathar slaves" programming that the sathar think they have eradicated but rather has morphed into corrupting the personalities of the attaches brains so that they dispise the sathar they came from. or rather it has corrupted the worm mind so that it despises the sathar that serves it. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
