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Agreed. I'd add that the changes a Vampire/Aberrent goes through may not be chosen or voluntary. If a Mage gets spells that reflect who they are and magic sometimes alters a magician's default form (as we've seen with Nanase, Justin, Susan), to make them more like who they really are, a Vampire might not get a choice in how they prey on other people or what they look like. They'll get what fits them. Example: In my mind, Spider-Mage didn't necessarily choose to have 4 extra arms and eat people (presumably) as a spider would. He chose to be a Vampire and Magic made him more spider-y because that reflected who he was.

I would expect the transformations to be thematic. We already know Magic can sculpt a magician's body (Justin's muscle, Susan's height, Nanase's bust) I'd expect a Vampire/Aberrent's physical appearance would be molded to match who they are and what sort of Vampire they are becoming. If true, what does this say about Sirleck?

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"A cranky transporter is a mighty finicky piece of equipment to be betting your life on..." --Scotty "Crazy way to travel, spreading a man's molecules all over the universe then collecting them back up..." --McCoy

It sounds like they'll be following the Battleship model to me...

Roddenberry probably should have. Standard-issue transporters have created clones as well. James Kirk was once split into two bodies, each of which only had half of his personality. And of course a similar transporter accident created Thomas Riker (who proved to me that Jonathan Frakes could in fact act competently. I was forced to blame his subpar-appearing portrayal of William Riker on bad direction early on in TNG which got canonized as THE way to play Riker).

In Classic Trek's Squire of Gothos, Trelane, the child-cosmic-being, chased the Enterprise around with an earth-sized planet at one point. Edit: I have to partly back off on the above. Trelane did have some technological help and some of his tricks may have actually been illusions. Trelane's parents appeared to be higher-order beings, however. Trelane's own human appearance was a part of the game he was playing with Our Heroes. The very first Trek novel ever to exist, "Spock must Die!", has a modified transporter creating an evil clone of Spock who was a mirror image down to the handedness of his organic molecules. In setting up the duplication, the book has Scotty and McCoy discuss whether putting someone through a transporter could be considered murder. McCoy was the first transporterphobic in Trek.

Thankfully this is Hollywood. They can announce a film, even a trilogy but it isn't assured that even one film will get made.

There are male and female members of the Q Continuum (at least some Q *look* male or female to humans...) If the human experience is at all transferable to the Q, you don't need that much maturity to breed. And the Classic Trek episode "Squire of Gothos" did show us that some cosmic beings actually do breed... It'd be no different than moving the toys around by transporter...

What if the child *can* get them back?

...unless you live in the RWBY universe...

My point about special-ness turns on how powerful not-Tengue was/is in the context of Ed Verres saying the guy was nothing special. If not-Tengue is "nothing special" and he's that powerful, imagine what someone who was special might be like. I'm thinking Sirleck might well be "special", though it's unlikely that just being a vampire/aberrent is enough to qualify. I'm romancing the idea that the longer one is an aberrent/vampire the less human (and more powerful) one becomes. The vamp that Nanase and Susan killed in France was the most human as well as the weakest we've seen. Spider-vamp was stronger and also less human. Sirleck is a collaboration between Salvadore Dali and HR Geiger. What would that say about how powerful he might be? I'm sure frog's legs were cheap for a while there, but you can't base an economy on that kind of niche item...

The bigger question is what the cockroach was going to do with it...

[snicker]...

Now consider this: Ed Verres said not-Tengue wasn't special at all. Just some guy who figured out how to get magic. Suppose Sirleck is special...

That's so un-Uryouom. Transform the entire star into a mutant goat that eats the planet...

Wow. This date was going so well, but ended so badly...

Elves like Raven can't have children (one assumes they're infertile per mules). OTOH, there's nothing known to be outside Magic's ability besides time-travel...

What could one do with a TF Cannon or a TF Nuke? TF-Cannon: Think of a TF Gun as an artillery piece with a burst radius on impact of, say, 10 meters. TF-Nuke: Scale the cannon to a burst radius of 10 kilometers. Turn anything within the impact zone into...say a mollusk. Anything with no hands or feet. For the next 30 days. Uryouom troops could call down fire on their own positions and simply morph back. Harsher TFG effects would be saved for facing another shapeshifting race. EGS Earth should be very happy that Uryuoms are social critters, and not much for empire building.

I can handle them. I have an Awkward Button. Nice B5 reference, too.

...because being a dork is always suspicious...

End of an Era is at part 2, as is Squirrel Prophet (there was a "SP: final battle" part but "Part 3" was not in the title) and Guest Comic.

That sets aside thoughts of baseball that might arise when Nanase finds herself tucked into Cheerleadra's waistband...

...so hubris in the sciences started early then...

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