Hi!
That's pretty slick Josh merging various ideas that way. The Slann seeded
the world with a highly adaptable, imitator race and the colonization fleet
crashing their provided the stimulus for rapid development.
Peter
> This gave me an idea to bend the fluff for our purposes. The rapid
> scientific progress points IMO suspiciously in the direction of Slann. We
> need just say that the Slann were preparing for their comeback and made
> contact with the Ethereal caste, and started strengthening the Tau for
> the
> benefit of both. The Slann gained some more allies and the Tau gained
> technology. Nothing else need to be changed.
>
> Opinions?
>
> -->That's one idea, and one rooted in existing fluff (Slann sticking
> their tongues where they don't belong). Or another idea is that the Tau
> are just really good imitators. The "lost" colonization fleet eventually
> did arrive (sans colonists and crew), and crashed on the Tau home world.
> They find the wreckage and gain all sorts of stuff from the archives and
> surviving mechanical devices. And, this wouldn't even conflict with
> Jyrki's idea, in that the Slann could have genetically engineered this
> ability into the Tau. Just another idea...
>
> Josh R
>
> Minister for General Mayhem
> "Don't let the bastards grind you down." Gen. Joseph Stilwell
> Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein -Rammstein
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