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Post by Zyobot on Apr 12, 2019 12:55:36 GMT
What are the odds that he'd encounter some Original Trilogy favorites in his misadventures, i.e. R2D2 and C3PO? Knowing these two he will meet them for sure and it will be funny to watch them interact with each other. Indeed, it should be. The ISOTed android will quickly pick up on the emotions that R2 and 3PO clearly display, without the apparent need for an emotion chip or equivalent. I'll bet it'd serve as further motivation to study the "droids" of this galaxy if ever/whenever he has the time and resources on hand to do so. |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 12, 2019 13:30:47 GMT
Knowing these two he will meet them for sure and it will be funny to watch them interact with each other. Indeed, it should be. The ISOTed android will quickly pick up on the emotions that R2 and 3PO clearly display, without the apparent need for an emotion chip or equivalent. I'll bet it'd serve as further motivation to study the "droids" of this galaxy if ever/whenever he has the time and resources on hand to do so. Wonder what he will think about the droid army. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 12, 2019 13:37:32 GMT
Indeed, it should be. The ISOTed android will quickly pick up on the emotions that R2 and 3PO clearly display, without the apparent need for an emotion chip or equivalent. I'll bet it'd serve as further motivation to study the "droids" of this galaxy if ever/whenever he has the time and resources on hand to do so. Wonder what he will think about the droid army. Amazement that the scale that these "droids" are employed on is such that they've fielded galaxy-wide armies of them not terribly long ago. The sheer variety of them that the decades-defunct CIS made use of--from the cheap, flimsy B1 hordes to the formidable Persuader-class "snail tanks"--would be another source of wonder and reason to further study the technology that this galactic civilization has at its disposal. Of course, military roles aren't the only purposes that droids fulfill. There are countless astromechs, labor/maintenance droids, nanny droids, protocol droids, etcetera that the denizens of Star Wars interweave into their daily lives. In some cases, you can even form strong friendships with them, i.e. Luke Skywalker and R2D2. |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 12, 2019 13:40:24 GMT
Wonder what he will think about the droid army. Amazement that the scale that these "droids" are employed on is such that they've fielded galaxy-wide armies of them not terribly long ago. The sheer variety of them that the decades-defunct CIS made use of--from the cheap, flimsy B1 hordes to the formidable Persuader-class "snail tanks"--would be another source of wonder and reason to further study the technology that this galactic civilization has at its disposal. Of course, military roles aren't the only purposes that droids fulfill. There are countless astromechs, labor/maintenance droids, nanny droids, protocol droids, etcetera that the denizens of Star Wars interweave into their daily lives. In some cases, you can even form strong friendships with them, i.e. Luke Skywalker and R2D2. Wonder if Data also will be able to do that with Luke, other hand if it was Data brother Lore I would not be surprise he would gather his own droid army and go on a rampage. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 12, 2019 13:47:42 GMT
Amazement that the scale that these "droids" are employed on is such that they've fielded galaxy-wide armies of them not terribly long ago. The sheer variety of them that the decades-defunct CIS made use of--from the cheap, flimsy B1 hordes to the formidable Persuader-class "snail tanks"--would be another source of wonder and reason to further study the technology that this galactic civilization has at its disposal. Of course, military roles aren't the only purposes that droids fulfill. There are countless astromechs, labor/maintenance droids, nanny droids, protocol droids, etcetera that the denizens of Star Wars interweave into their daily lives. In some cases, you can even form strong friendships with them, i.e. Luke Skywalker and R2D2. Wonder if Data also will be able to do that with Luke, other hand if it was Data brother Lore I would not be surprise he would gather his own droid army and go on a rampage. Well, a certain Han Solo would probably find Data a great deal more useful/less irritating than their resident golden protocol droid who constantly blabbers away  . Now, if Lore were somehow involved in this ISOT, that could be reason for trouble. But I'm unsure how he'd go about raising a droid army of his own in a galaxy that he has yet to explore; he'd probably have to make do with whatever remaining Separatist assets are left. Maybe Lore finds a droid foundry and eventually figures out how to put it to good use, if you know what I mean? Alternatively, he could forge an alliance with the likes of IG-88--though there's still room for the relations to sour or for one of them to turn on the other once they see an opportunity to do so. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 13, 2019 0:51:10 GMT
'WI the Star Trek Federation Spanned the Entire Milky Way Galaxy?'
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Post by lordroel on Apr 13, 2019 6:04:57 GMT
'WI the Star Trek Federation Spanned the Entire Milky Way Galaxy?' Would they be able to govern it effectively. |
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Post by stevep on Apr 13, 2019 9:13:40 GMT
'WI the Star Trek Federation Spanned the Entire Milky Way Galaxy?' Would they be able to govern it effectively.
I think they would have to accept massive devolution, including probably at least some societies they find unpleasant else the only other way of even possibly administering such a massive area would be a brutal dictatorship.
I remember talking with a friend a few decades back, after reading a short bit by Arthur C Clarke IIRC about the sheer size of the galaxy postulation that idea of a report to the emperor/president something along the line of "We have to report a small revolution in division 23B of sector 14 that started 12 standard years ago and was put down within 3 years. Local forces handled the problem and only some 239 systems were disruption. Total death tolls were kept to less than a trillion so it was only a minor incident."
This presumes of course that many systems can be made suitable for settlement/have their own native life forms. If only say 1 in a million or less systems can be made habitable the situation may not be that extreme, although your still talking about several hundred thousand systems.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 13, 2019 19:09:55 GMT
Would they be able to govern it effectively. I think they would have to accept massive devolution, including probably at least some societies they find unpleasant else the only other way of even possibly administering such a massive area would be a brutal dictatorship.
I remember talking with a friend a few decades back, after reading a short bit by Arthur C Clarke IIRC about the sheer size of the galaxy postulation that idea of a report to the emperor/president something along the line of "We have to report a small revolution in division 23B of sector 14 that started 12 standard years ago and was put down within 3 years. Local forces handled the problem and only some 239 systems were disruption. Total death tolls were kept to less than a trillion so it was only a minor incident." This presumes of course that many systems can be made suitable for settlement/have their own native life forms. If only say 1 in a million or less systems can be made habitable the situation may not be that extreme, although your still talking about several hundred thousand systems. You do not know the name of that story anymore stevep do you. |
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Post by stevep on Apr 13, 2019 22:42:54 GMT
I think they would have to accept massive devolution, including probably at least some societies they find unpleasant else the only other way of even possibly administering such a massive area would be a brutal dictatorship.
I remember talking with a friend a few decades back, after reading a short bit by Arthur C Clarke IIRC about the sheer size of the galaxy postulation that idea of a report to the emperor/president something along the line of "We have to report a small revolution in division 23B of sector 14 that started 12 standard years ago and was put down within 3 years. Local forces handled the problem and only some 239 systems were disruption. Total death tolls were kept to less than a trillion so it was only a minor incident." This presumes of course that many systems can be made suitable for settlement/have their own native life forms. If only say 1 in a million or less systems can be made habitable the situation may not be that extreme, although your still talking about several hundred thousand systems. You do not know the name of that story anymore stevep do you.
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No it was an article on the problems such an interstellar empire would have even with some form of FTL travel given the sheer size of the galaxy. IIRC he started out talking about the current era being a unique one in human history as with modern technology - and this was probably 20-30 years back - you can possibly talk to any other member of humanity pretty much in real time whereas in earlier periods even if you have knowledge of their existence and lines of communications it could take days, weeks or months to get messages to someone. Similarly if/when we start moving to other planets in the solar system even radio messages will take minutes or hours and to other stars will take years. He then went on to point out that if some instantaneous communication system was developed the sheer size of the galaxy and expected number of systems occupied is likely make a unified government impossible.
There wasn't a story involved. If you mean the bit about the 'small' rebellion that was a comment I made to a friend about how things might develop in a galactic empire due to the problems Clarke described.
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 15, 2019 16:41:12 GMT
'WI Batman Became the US President?' Or any other DC/Marvel superhero, for that matter.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 15, 2019 16:44:43 GMT
'WI Batman Became the US President?' Or any other DC/Marvel superhero, for that matter. You mean Bruce Wayne do you, also having him married to Selina Kyle and here as First Lady will be fun to watch. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 15, 2019 17:16:22 GMT
'WI Batman Became the US President?' Or any other DC/Marvel superhero, for that matter. You mean Bruce Wayne do you, also having him married to Selina Kyle and here as First Lady will be fun to watch. Indeed, I mean that he'd run as Bruce Wayne. I do wonder which party he'd align with, however; maybe as an Independent? |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 15, 2019 17:17:25 GMT
You mean Bruce Wayne do you, also having him married to Selina Kyle and here as First Lady will be fun to watch. Indeed, I mean that he'd run as Bruce Wayne. I do wonder which party he'd align with, however; maybe as an Independent? Most likely he is a Democrat. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 15, 2019 17:18:42 GMT
Indeed, I mean that he'd run as Bruce Wayne. I do wonder which party he'd align with, however; maybe as an Independent? Most likely he is a Democrat. I'd ask why you think so (though I do think that DC revealed such political leanings at one point), but I get the impression that's a topic for the Politics and Current Affairs forum instead of this one. |
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