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Because of genetic quirks, children of a human/Faey pairing always resemble a human, though they might have a certain sharpening of the eartips and usually are rather handsome.

Every single human telepath on Earth can trace his or lineage back to one village in the Scottish lowlands, even Temika (she has a white ancestor).

lochar wrote:More likely Hearly is carpet bombs from orbit.

lochar wrote:plague, gengineered towards humans?

lochar wrote:I meant plague from the Faey, gengineered just towards human to kill them all.  Then they can bring in whatever subject race they want to farm it all.

hearly wrote:And the second part was mostly to keep it secret he only allows his community the talent instead of all humans in 1 shot, slowly build up the number of humans who have the talent, that it wouldn't  be noticed as easily

lochar wrote:The problem with that is someone gave Jason an exomech.  If he can outfit that with a couple of railguns, there ain't no way that they can isolate him.  He'll be able to go just about anywhere he wants to.

straechav wrote: You know what strucks me as the oddest thing about Faey technology? The fact that Fel has given virtually no glimpse at all to the faey gengineering skills, which I would assume are at quite staggering level. If the genetics have not been researched so well, why not? Faey don't strike me as religiously rigid society, which would ban such things (one of the more plausible reasons I think could hinder genetic research). I mean, targeted viruses that kill of only specific races wouldn't be much of a problem, and they would be the ultimate weapon. Just pick one alien, check the DNA, launch virus and diidahdoo... we have new nice empty planet. As for several billion rotting corpses... Hmh, some robots cleaners perchance?

Another thing: Why exomechs? Why personal armors? Why personal weapons? Why their warfare resembles guerilla warfare? In fact, why they even HAVE any personal combat experience?

In society so technologically advanced, I would have expected them to master robotic "soldiers". I use quotes because the "soldier" could be a friggin' tank that can go everywhere and just use some nice complex recognition algorithm to pick up primitive targets and shoot them to their own personal heaven. Other options could include self-replicating machines, and of course the more traditional mass-destruction weapons.

Hell, it won't be too many years before us humans in Real Life(tm) will have computers fast enough and smart enough to be able to work as automated "soldiers". Although it'll take quite a while before they can do it reliably and without any supervision. But my bet would be on the self-replicating machines, they could go down, and build a base in no time at all and then proceed to enroach over the planet while all the faey do is feed some supplies. Afterwards, they just tear the bots apart and recycle the materials very little loss and lots of gain.

I suppose the Faey could have a warrior society which puts great weight to one's personal aptitude in fight. But their fighting methods (the small glimpses we've seen) don't seem quite ritualistic enough for that, or concentrate on the mano-a-mano approach which would be expected from society concentrating on "honor". Neither their society seems all that concentrated on martial skill, although apparently everyone has to go through army? Hmmm....

Then again there's the one Big Great Argument(tm) that can be used whenever one wishes to explain the unexplainable (huh?) = They are aliens, and ergo, their ways are alien to us.

hearly wrote:Not sure he needs railguns on the exomech, that exomech would probably destroy anything the Faey have on Earth, it's a top of the line model while all the Faey have is 100 year old surplus junk.