Set wrote:Figarou wrote:It wouldn't be so easy to escape this lycan outbreak if it happened on a spaceship in deep space.
Er...what, exactly, is difficult about shoving someone out of an airlock?
They would try to stop you...?
Terastas wrote:Figarou wrote:It wouldn't be so easy to escape this lycan outbreak if it happened on a spaceship in deep space.
Which is precisely why I was one of the few kids that
didn't want to be an astronaut when he grew up.
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Seriously, why would you even bring that up?
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There are six billion people on Earth and only eight or nine of them are out in orbit.
So if I
did somehow wind up during a lycanthropic outbreak in outer space, you know what I'd do? Turn to the
real astronauts and ask "what do we do?!"
She's a female astronaut and she suggests you get to work rebuilding the human population.
Aki wrote:Figarou wrote:You're right. We can't go to outer space if this outbreak happens today. But what does the future hold? At this point, we don't know. In the 1960s, they said by the year 2000 we'll have flying cars. Well, where are they?
If the outbreak happened in the future, wolfie would be
screwed, period. Look at the past couple hundred years and how weaponry and defensive technology has advanced since then.
Teeth won't do much against an exoskeleton and fur is no protection against a metal slug hurled at twice the speed of sound.
I have (another) WIP that deals with that sort of thing.
Humans have very advanced tech, like 40K Warhammer type of stuff. The therianthropes are able to compensate through a number of different methods. The werewolves so to speak in this WIP actually have telepathy with other members of their species, they're strong enough to bench press a few semis, can move at speeds far beyond human reflexes, and regenerate from anything short of limb loss or massive chest or cranium destruction inside a few hours. With all that, they still had to develop some tech of their own for certain situations, like an electromagnetic pulse gauntlet, it can temporarily shut down an a common exoskeleton so they can work at tearing it apart. Of course, if they manage to rip out a human out of his exoskeleton, which they can given enough time, it's just too easy for them after that.
I also have several other species in that WIP that I'm working to science-fictionize.
WerewolfKeeper3 wrote:
question: what happens if that doesn't kill them? I've noticed it's alot of "oh well, zombies are like this, that, and those". Like everyone actually knows how to kill one. What happens if shooting for the head doesn't work?
Then we revert to magic, prayer, and full body incineration, like in The Secret World. The town of Kingsmouth has zombies that no matter how many times you kill them, they just get back up again the next day. It's presumed one of the three mentioned above would be capable of getting rid of them.
We do not stop being children when we learn of death, we stop being children when we make peace with it.