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04-05-2004, 08:38 AM
Volsung
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Good Call, Death. Sorry.

PA's point about upsetting the natural balance, then. Wow. I'd never even once hoped to concieve such a completely twisted, excellent thought. How COULD the industrial side of Oddworld be considered in harmony with the life on oddworld? I imagine, Since they tend to destroy all the resources in any given area, that to make it work there would have to be an enormous fallow period, during which the industrials would have to move elsewhere. This is, I suppose, possible, Since Oddworlds so huge, but then the problem becomes population control.

On the other hand, that might not be too big a deal with species dependent upon their queens for reproduction. Wow. It's kind of difficult to think about the scale their operations would have to be on. There would almost have to be a lateral swath of industry down the planet which moved slowly around it. That way there might be a long enough period for resources to reform and animals to repopulate. But I guess that's supposing that the glukkons don't truly eradicate the species before they leave. Hmm.

Good Question PA. That would be a pretty intense twist, and as Death pointed out earlier, what with the species being so single-minded, there would have to be a huge sense of community. A community in which the mudokons forgot their place as slave labor.

On a similair point, would Mudokons have been bred to be dumber? They only do menial tasks, and they're right on the verge of becoming meat, anyway. Cows have gotten dumber, it just seems possible. Even likely.
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