What's wrong with this Vargr?
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Reynard
Emperor Mongoose
New World Monkeys have tail while Old World Apes (our people) don't. Apes have fur whereas we lost most of ours while living in the same environment. As a matter of fact, most mammals have fur in locales you think would not be nessessary. Apes also spend a lot of time on all fours. We humans seem to be a quirk.
If fur and a tail don't interfer with development I don't see the Ancients removing either except as yet another experiment creating a subrace. Changes to vargrs were about taking a fairly intelligent, sociable genus and giving them physical (and mental) modifications to greatly enhance that aspect. Notice, at the same time, they didn't modify their genus Homo subject anywhere near as much. Maybe they were the experimental control group.
And, really, a super intelligent race doesn't lop off appendages just to make the pants fit.
If fur and a tail don't interfer with development I don't see the Ancients removing either except as yet another experiment creating a subrace. Changes to vargrs were about taking a fairly intelligent, sociable genus and giving them physical (and mental) modifications to greatly enhance that aspect. Notice, at the same time, they didn't modify their genus Homo subject anywhere near as much. Maybe they were the experimental control group.
And, really, a super intelligent race doesn't lop off appendages just to make the pants fit.
No, it's not at all "almost impossible to use a toilet." They'd simply design a toilet to fit their needs. The Japanese haven't used western-style toilets for very long in their history, preferring to use what's called a "squat toilet" instead.mr31337 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JapaneseSquatToilet.jpg
I myself have used one a number of times while traveling through Japan. Very easy to use and keep tidy, especially when one is wearing local clothing like a men's kimono even at 2 in the morning. The Vargr could easily design something similar in a gravity environment and a micro-G environment would simply require a different design just like it does for humans.
And there are no toilets in the wild. What do you think backpackers do? And the militaries of the world have used slit trenches for centuries. Intelligent species adapt.
Reynard said:
They would probably wear kilts.
The biggest issue of the old vargr were their legs, as a four footed animal, canines center of mass is forward, making their two forward limbs their main legs. T5 fixes this in it's pictures, with no more dog legs, and introduces the idea of vargr being a chimera: a mix of human and dire wolf. The obvious idea of why to do this is to make them the hunters of man.
Behave, children... :roll:
There are realworld cases of dogs walking on two legs (though the one I'm thinking of does so because it doesn't have forelimbs and learned to walk on its hind legs - but I'd imagine it's probably possible for dogs to walk on their hindlimbs even with "arms").
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22P-H9rWIHo
There are realworld cases of dogs walking on two legs (though the one I'm thinking of does so because it doesn't have forelimbs and learned to walk on its hind legs - but I'd imagine it's probably possible for dogs to walk on their hindlimbs even with "arms").
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22P-H9rWIHo
GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
F33D said:
And since the Ancients were digitigrade themselves, they probably knew exactly what needed doing for those modifications. They were reputedly creating servants and assistants, not just guard animals, so use of the hands would have been an important goal.
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
What is more dexterous in zero G. A Human or a Vargr?
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Infojunky said:
You're not role-playing. :0
GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
Neither are a flying race and both developed in significant gravity, so at the "Race" level they are going to be pretty similar. Droyne and Ael Yael are going to be better adapted than either.
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ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Infojunky said:
Love it! Role-play is awesome.
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
GypsyComet said:
As long as you're not role-playing your Vargr simply as a human wearing a dog's mask. Then ok.
