Bio Engineer Archive

The new color descriptions for the Pygmy Rancor describe Rancors as "reptomammals" - not half arachnid, half crustacean like the loading-screen color description did

My phylogenetic rant after that must've caught someone's attention

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droid327 wrote:
they listened to me!

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First and last time

ahh, just messing with ya. This guy gets to see me rant all the time, to no avail, so it's good to see HIS ranting actually got somewhere.

No way... maybe the devs ARE omnipresent...

*looks around worringly*

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Zadokk wrote:
No way... maybe the devs ARE omnipresent...

*looks around worringly*

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MOre likely, they're messing with us.

And congrats!

they ALSO describe rancors as 'found on dathomir and tatooine'... and while ONE rancor lives happily (or not) on the twice-baked rock, and rancors prowl the datapads of the galaxy, I'm not sure the solitary tat example deserves a bestiary mention.

and krayts apparently have ten legs. and they're egg layers. and no one has ever found their eggs. and their eggs are worth a LOT. ???. maybe their PEARLS (mentioned just before the strange statement which describes the economic value of SUPPOSED eggs) are worth a lot...

I'm not sure the bestiary was perfectly written.

not to mention that a 'reptomammal' breaches several phylogenic extremes itself... while there are a few mammals that aren't placental, mammals differ from reptiles by at LEAST one existing step: birds (and formerly dinosaurs... though if Gould is right, then birds ARE dinosaurs).

whatever the condition of the bestiary, the fact remains that most of these new variants are blamed (through rumor at least) on BioE's. we've been naughty.

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lammergeier wrote:
whatever the condition of the bestiary, the fact remains that most of these new variants are blamed (through rumor at least) on BioE's. we've been naughty.

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Look at it this way, we are all evil scientists so it looks like we got some good press for once.

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Zadokk wrote:

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lammergeier wrote:
whatever the condition of the bestiary, the fact remains that most of these new variants are blamed (through rumor at least) on BioE's. we've been naughty.

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Look at it this way, we are all evil scientists so it looks like we got some good press for once.

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yes, naughty is nice.

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lammergeier wrote:

and krayts apparently have ten legs. and they're egg layers. and no one has ever found their eggs. and their eggs are worth a LOT. ???. maybe their PEARLS (mentioned just before the strange statement which describes the economic value of SUPPOSED eggs) are worth a lot...

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Kryat's lay eggs?! wonder how many times I'll die trying to collect them? They any good at making EM's?

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Aleskander wrote:

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lammergeier wrote:

and krayts apparently have ten legs. and they're egg layers. and no one has ever found their eggs. and their eggs are worth a LOT. ???. maybe their PEARLS (mentioned just before the strange statement which describes the economic value of SUPPOSED eggs) are worth a lot...

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Kryat's lay eggs?! wonder how many times I'll die trying to collect them? They any good at making EM's?

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Wouldn't mind a krayt omelette personally.

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RancorPoker wrote:

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lammergeier wrote:
they ALSO describe rancors as 'found on dathomir and tatooine'... and while ONE rancor lives happily (or not) on the twice-baked rock, and rancors prowl the datapads of the galaxy, I'm not sure the solitary tat example deserves a bestiary mention.

and krayts apparently have ten legs. and they're egg layers. and no one has ever found their eggs. and their eggs are worth a LOT. ???. maybe their PEARLS (mentioned just before the strange statement which describes the economic value of SUPPOSED eggs) are worth a lot...

I'm not sure the bestiary was perfectly written.

not to mention that a 'reptomammal' breaches several phylogenic extremes itself... while there are a few mammals that aren't placental, mammals differ from reptiles by at LEAST one existing step: birds (and formerly dinosaurs... though if Gould is right, then birds ARE dinosaurs).

whatever the condition of the bestiary, the fact remains that most of these new variants are blamed (through rumor at least) on BioE's. we've been naughty.

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Are you an anthropologist by chance? Or are you just interested in the subject?

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I'm an ornithologist by training, so of course I pay the rent by bartending.

holler if you see a lucrative postition in bird research. heck, I even know my backwoods pharmacology and other (so far) useless inana.

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lammergeier wrote:
they ALSO describe rancors as 'found on dathomir and tatooine'... and while ONE rancor lives happily (or not) on the twice-baked rock, and rancors prowl the datapads of the galaxy, I'm not sure the solitary tat example deserves a bestiary mention.

and krayts apparently have ten legs. and they're egg layers. and no one has ever found their eggs. and their eggs are worth a LOT. ???. maybe their PEARLS (mentioned just before the strange statement which describes the economic value of SUPPOSED eggs) are worth a lot...

I'm not sure the bestiary was perfectly written.

not to mention that a 'reptomammal' breaches several phylogenic extremes itself... while there are a few mammals that aren't placental, mammals differ from reptiles by at LEAST one existing step: birds (and formerly dinosaurs... though if Gould is right, then birds ARE dinosaurs).

whatever the condition of the bestiary, the fact remains that most of these new variants are blamed (through rumor at least) on BioE's. we've been naughty.

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Are you an anthropologist by chance? Or are you just interested in the subject?