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Re: TFT out of order snippet
Post by Kael Posavatz   » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:10 pm

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Kufat wrote:Firmware glitch in the XL-sized cryopods? This is what happens when you don't have time to do a full round of beta testing! :lol:


Genetic manipulation by Langhorne&friends as part of their Return in Glory Plan.

[Sarcasm]Objective: Ensure inhabitants recognize them for the glorious and noble beings that they are.
Step one: 'Archangels' stand hands and shoulders above mere mortals.[/sarcasm]
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Re: TFT out of order snippet
Post by evilauthor   » Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:17 pm

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Kael Posavatz wrote:
Kufat wrote:Firmware glitch in the XL-sized cryopods? This is what happens when you don't have time to do a full round of beta testing! :lol:


Genetic manipulation by Langhorne&friends as part of their Return in Glory Plan.

[Sarcasm]Objective: Ensure inhabitants recognize them for the glorious and noble beings that they are.
Step one: 'Archangels' stand hands and shoulders above mere mortals.[/sarcasm]


Or simple selection bias when choosing colonists. There were no people in the original colonist pool over six feet tall because the cryo pods they slept in weren't big enough to accomodate such a people (a space saving measure to cram more sleepers into ships). The only source for genes that code for 6+ foot people were either recessive genes in the colonists or came from command crew breeding with the colonists (hey, if Scheuler could do it...).
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Re: TFT out of order snippet
Post by runsforcelery   » Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:45 pm

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runsforcelery wrote:
Correct. It wasn't just the stay-in-the-kitchen aspects, though. Nimue Alban was 6'3" tall (thus the reference to which side of the family her height comes from) and the one thing she can't change about her PICA's chassis is its height. There are no native Safeholdian women remotely that tall, so if one turned up, claiming to be a seijin, the "You're kidding me. You've gotta be a demon, lady!" problems would've been a lot more severe. This is the entire reason the second PICA was built to be only 5'3". :lol:


Honor's height is always given in centimeters. But if you convert to inches, wouldn't she be about 6' 3"? I'm sensing a trend here! :lol:



Well, I got two aunts who each measured 6'2" in their stocking feet. Just sayin . . .


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Re: TFT out of order snippet
Post by Joat42   » Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:10 am

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runsforcelery wrote:Well, I got two aunts who each measured 6'2" in their stocking feet. Just sayin . . .

Aunts and their towering influence... :lol:

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