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Cross Species Breeding in fantasy sifi
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on August 05, 2010, 04:12:01 PM ---so in a science fiction setting how would you explain something like a hybrid from to different races of sentient beings.
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You wouldn't. You'd have someone come up with the notion and other people point at them and lauigh, perhaps...
--- Quote ---could you go the way of Jurassic Park in that "nature finds a way".
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That is basically a atstement of faith. Which is fine if you want to build your world based on statements of faith, but what' it's not is logical, sicentific or SF.
--- Quote ---another question to consider is how these hybrids would be treated in an advanced alien culture.
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I'd be inclined to think that the answer is either "just like everyone else", "just like everyone else except with allowances made for any quirks of their biology being weird", or "this society does not really qualify as 'advanced'", fwiw.
MoSeS:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on August 05, 2010, 04:12:01 PM ---another question to consider is how these hybrids would be treated in an advanced alien culture.
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Probably the same way Mulatto kids were treated in the 1950's versus how they were treated in 2000.
I think it would depend on how long they have been part of the culture, but I think this is were an Antropology expert would probably be handy.
I took Antropology and just on Earth alone, people in different coutries, in real life, all treat different ethnic groups in different ways.
Heck you could even bring religion into it. Look at the Middle East, Muslims and Jews killing each other, and some of them may actually be from the same etnic background.
Hybrids would eventual become accepted, but depeneding an how their race views time, it could be a lot longer than the Human time scale.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: MoSeS_ on August 05, 2010, 05:52:10 PM ---Probably the same way Mulatto kids were treated in the 1950's versus how they were treated in 2000.
I think it would depend on how long they have been part of the culture, but I think this is were an Antropology expert would probably be handy.
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Only if you want your aliens to have human emotional makeup and think like humans, which is going to blow my suspension of disbelief completely away.
Figging Mint:
--- Quote from: neurovore on August 05, 2010, 05:56:58 PM ---Only if you want your aliens to have human emotional makeup and think like humans,
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You really didn't like Star Trek, did you?
MoSeS:
I never really got into Star Trek myself, I caught an episode here and there over the years from various different generations of it, but only because my uncle watched it.
But I did like the newest movie, which I know all the fans probably hated since it pretty much went back in time and made all previous events non-existant. It is one way to revamp a series and bring characters back tho.
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