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Post by Fromikeable on Dec 18, 2015 20:07:48 GMT -5
I have two basic problems.
Now we’re pretty open-minded about hybrids here on SWU, mainly because it’s canonic and allows for some interesting characters. And for the most part, there’s not a lot to deny; assuming two humanoid species are related closely enough, one can consider their differences to be less like that between two species, and more like those genetic differences that separate dogs. In this regard, even calling certain groups different “species” is incorrect, but as I’m not a biologist, I digress. In short, we assume nearly identical biology being paired with the advanced knowledge of genetics that would comprise SW medicine.
The first problem doesn’t have to do with any of that. The first problem is that the Anzati would never, ever, ever mate with something that wasn’t an Anzati.
You have to realize that the Anzati regard just about every single sentient race the same way you and I would regard an ape. Intelligent? To some degree. Fascinating? Sure. Related? Maybe. But on parr with themselves? Definitely not. And a viable mate? Ew. At best, other sentient beings are a fun hunt. At worst, well, they’re juice-farms just waiting to be sucked clean. If there was even one example of an Anzati having a differing view, I might consider this a bit more heavily, but as it stands, there’s absolutely no precedent, even in a galaxy of trillions upon trillions.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaat’s a pretty big red flag, don’t you think? How could anything even remotely human survive without a circulatory system? Given how similar the two races look similarly, it seems like an easy thing to write off, but there’s not even a guarantee that Anzati partake in cellular respiration; something that most other living things (even in Star Wars) do from before they’re born until after they die. Granted, biologically speaking, there are a lot of different ways to achieve cellular respiration (or some variance), but there isn’t one known to this galaxy or ours. By all rights, the Anzati are the living dead; not exactly genetically, anatomically, or biologically compatible with your usual human. By this line of thinking (paired with the regeneration thing that has no drawbacks, seemingly), it’s hard to argue that Anzati even have the same kind of cells as most other livings things (if they’re made of cells at all).
I’m not quite sure what you mean by “aging cycle” (even after reading about their biology top to bottom on the wiki), so for now I’ll just treat it as an arbitrary measurement of time (it’d be handy if you could define it). With that said, if it kept adding a half to it without any sort of mathematical limitation (i.e. a function that forever approached a value without actually being equal to it), it would eventually reach and perhaps even surpass your run-of-the-mill Anzati. If anything, we’re talking about exponential growth here: every cycle, the added half grows larger and larger.
Bottom line: Anzati have never been very popular here on SWU, and the reason for that is basically because they were created on a whim for some writer who wanted a super-vampire to dramatically threaten Jedi. Given that pretty much all of Star Wars is dramatic, that’s fair, but the Anzati make a lot of assumptions without much of any explanation beyond “this seems cool and dangerous”.
They were never supposed to be together, not even see each other, yet they had a son. He was an Anzat, a monster, a coldblooded murderer and assassin, only craving his 'soup', while she was Amelia Quorr, an upstanding citizen of Corellia with a wealthy and powerful family behind her. Most importantly, a family that wanted her to marry into such a family, or even a better one, and not to fall in love with an alien, an outsider. But love is not something that can be controlled, they had something real, something special, something she would never have felt unless she broke the rules, which she did. Not a year after they had started seeing each other, she gave birth to their son, and when the family found out about her pregnancy, they wanted to have he Anzat killed.
Now we’re pretty open-minded about hybrids here on SWU, mainly because it’s canonic and allows for some interesting characters. And for the most part, there’s not a lot to deny; assuming two humanoid species are related closely enough, one can consider their differences to be less like that between two species, and more like those genetic differences that separate dogs. In this regard, even calling certain groups different “species” is incorrect, but as I’m not a biologist, I digress. In short, we assume nearly identical biology being paired with the advanced knowledge of genetics that would comprise SW medicine.
The first problem doesn’t have to do with any of that. The first problem is that the Anzati would never, ever, ever mate with something that wasn’t an Anzati.
You have to realize that the Anzati regard just about every single sentient race the same way you and I would regard an ape. Intelligent? To some degree. Fascinating? Sure. Related? Maybe. But on parr with themselves? Definitely not. And a viable mate? Ew. At best, other sentient beings are a fun hunt. At worst, well, they’re juice-farms just waiting to be sucked clean. If there was even one example of an Anzati having a differing view, I might consider this a bit more heavily, but as it stands, there’s absolutely no precedent, even in a galaxy of trillions upon trillions.
Being half Anzat, Atreus really has some mean personalities and traits, and also being half human, the Anzat ageing, and circular system get screwed.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaat’s a pretty big red flag, don’t you think? How could anything even remotely human survive without a circulatory system? Given how similar the two races look similarly, it seems like an easy thing to write off, but there’s not even a guarantee that Anzati partake in cellular respiration; something that most other living things (even in Star Wars) do from before they’re born until after they die. Granted, biologically speaking, there are a lot of different ways to achieve cellular respiration (or some variance), but there isn’t one known to this galaxy or ours. By all rights, the Anzati are the living dead; not exactly genetically, anatomically, or biologically compatible with your usual human. By this line of thinking (paired with the regeneration thing that has no drawbacks, seemingly), it’s hard to argue that Anzati even have the same kind of cells as most other livings things (if they’re made of cells at all).
About the 'soup' and regen, the strength of the urge for it and the times Atreus would feel it would be multiplied by 1.5 in each of his aging cycles, so it would reach the normal urge of a pure Anzat in never, but be very close to that (even though he wouldn't have to drink 'soup' to survive, he would literally go nuts without it, like a drug addict, hypothetically everything of course, since you read the bio) around the age of 62 as well. His regen the same as the other stuff, multiplied by 1.5 each cycle, close to the pure Anzat regeneration around 62.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by “aging cycle” (even after reading about their biology top to bottom on the wiki), so for now I’ll just treat it as an arbitrary measurement of time (it’d be handy if you could define it). With that said, if it kept adding a half to it without any sort of mathematical limitation (i.e. a function that forever approached a value without actually being equal to it), it would eventually reach and perhaps even surpass your run-of-the-mill Anzati. If anything, we’re talking about exponential growth here: every cycle, the added half grows larger and larger.
Bottom line: Anzati have never been very popular here on SWU, and the reason for that is basically because they were created on a whim for some writer who wanted a super-vampire to dramatically threaten Jedi. Given that pretty much all of Star Wars is dramatic, that’s fair, but the Anzati make a lot of assumptions without much of any explanation beyond “this seems cool and dangerous”.
