tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post4620008622949815031..comments2024-03-14T07:11:37.650+00:00Comments on Porky's Expanse!: Rogues' gallery - TrippiesPorkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post-69498000207277643992012-09-07T08:54:19.813+01:002012-09-07T08:54:19.813+01:00I'm pretty sure they've crossed over.I'm pretty sure they've crossed over.Porkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post-39627508651622084152012-09-06T23:12:33.978+01:002012-09-06T23:12:33.978+01:00These folks could find themselves right at home in...These folks could find themselves right at home in Lithus Sector...garrisonjameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09544523186717576771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post-68768171465449942522012-09-02T19:13:37.095+01:002012-09-02T19:13:37.095+01:00Definitely use them if you want to.
The name is q...Definitely use them if you want to.<br /><br />The name is quite cute, and hopefully pulpy too, and of course potentially offensive in-world, if not beyond it. It places a question mark over just who the author, reader and characters might be in relation. The name as it is could reference them being tripedal, or the experience people might have of spending time around them, or seeing them in combat - of someone being tripped - or even suggest a sense of surreality in those not familiar with their appearance. I was thinking of giving them a Latin species name as well, but decided that might feel like a limit on their use in other realities than our own, and I want to keep this series fairly open.<br /><br />The idea behind the leg itself and their being shorter is that they've adapted - or been adapted - to more energetic or turbulent atmospheres, where the extra stability would presumably help keep them upright, but that does makes sense with higher gravities too of course. There's that entry in the table of them looking for new landscapes and these could easily include high-gravity regions or worlds, without any need for the extra self-engineering.Porkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487413006559113471.post-26095117992320595482012-08-31T21:07:41.348+01:002012-08-31T21:07:41.348+01:00I like the name Trippies. That's cute. I see i...I like the name Trippies. That's cute. I see it as a nickname that stuck with them, their original name being lost or complicated. With them being squat bioengineered humans, the 3rd leg would be an adaptation mutation for high gravity worlds. Like a metal rich mining colony. It would provide extra stability and explain their short stature.<br /><br />In Star*Drive i would use them just for that, especially the Thuldan Empire, who is all about bioengineering mutants and messing with genes.M. Jared Swensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08675126659478194641noreply@blogger.com