EJ Heijnis
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There are some really interesting designs in this thread. Very inspiring!
Herbie! It's you!I put in some reference to an old classic sentient being that is capable of driving himself, as well as a mish-mash of other sci fi ref. Feel free to leave comments and critiques. Any constructive criticism would be appreciated!
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The Drone Carrier is interesting - I like the organic shape - but I'm not sure you'd need a conning tower (correct word?) for a bridge or communications as presumably tech would be advanced enough that neither would need to be on a vulnerable outcrop.
The Shadows and Vorlorn from Babylon 5I am trying to develop my own unique spin on Bioships and Alien Biotech. Initially I did some designs just for fun, but after doing some research I found that other people had done similar ideas already. So, in order to develop more original and interesting ideas that have not been done before, I thought i would do some more research and find all other alien races in other IP(intellectual Properties) which use biotechnology.
Here is a list of different Alien Races that I found that use Biotech. Are there any notable ones I am missing?
Tryanids / Genestealers - Warhammer 40K
Zerg - Starcraft
The Flood - Halo
Species 8472 / Undine - Star Trek
Alien - Alien, Aliens, Prometheus
Cthulhu - not biotech per se, but similar and cool
Thanks and much appreciated for any help!
Probably they have a god/gods with powers that they consider impossible.On a slightly different but related topic,
I wonder as a species, if these aliens which have god-like powers, would believe in a god or gods? Perhaps they would see themselves as god(s), or somehow directly linked to a creator god.
If these aliens have god like powers, then does it de-mystifiy their god to just a being who wields powers that are greater than them just for the moment? Or at least until they uncover the workings of their god's powers - such powers that once seemed godlike, once uncovered of how it works, is then no longer godlike or supernatural, but everyday and common, so would the aliens still believe in a god(or gods)?
Or if they believe in an all powerful god, then how would they interact with other species? Would they see their species as superior to other species due to their relationship with god, or as equals - as brothers and sisters created by the same creator god?
In relationship to aliens and god, and as well as own own existence as humans with god which we as humans only have witness the truths of this planet, no human in recorded history has traveled to other worlds(beside only a handful who have traveled to space and a even fewer to the moon, if you even count those as other worlds). So how can we as a collective organism prove an existence of a greater all powerful god when we are limited in a our means to understand god or gods as we have only witness life on this planet - so, who is to say of other worlds? Just something to think about...
Whether there is a god I cannot say for certain but in my experience everything happens for a reason. Thing only seem random because we do not know the source of the effect. But like the laws of the universe they play a role in the daily workings of existence. Whether or not we understand these laws or its logic is another matter.
Back to the topic of these aliens and the creator of these bioships I was thinking early in their history they were early beings called golems - soulless(non-sentient) beings made from mud/muck, and the primordial soup/stew in the universe. One of the first Alpha-type golems turned into a sentient being, an alien(man) aware of his own existence who was named Adam. Adam then began to understand words and meaning of ideas, and as the group of Alphas used knowledge to over come dangers and gain profit from their endeavors - the fruit of knowledge, they left that utopian world that once was their naivety, and changed into the world that to them became a place of knowledge as power.
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