Zennock wrote:

That's actually a really clever idea. Wonder what the historians would say.

"We considered that, but no, the evidence doesn't support it." For starters, you can tell pretty well apart if somebody is missing a bit of head because it's been bashed in or because it's been carefully cut. And you don't torture people by removing parts of their skull, it's inefficient. The scraping off of the scalp hurts a lot, but after that, there are no nerves left that will cause pain.

Oh, and "just" religious purpose is a dismissive comment made by a 20th century vantage point. The idea that medicine, religion and magic are distinct is recent compared to this procedure, and magic thinking exists even today. If your doctor tells you to take some medicine, it's not that different from when a priest tells you to perform thirty Hail Marys. In both cases, you perform the task because a reasonable authority figure tells you it is effective, not because of any actual understanding of the processes involved. 

Okey, Injuries or torture are out now, but the possibility of a religious or cultural tradition are still on the table.

I find this topic Interesting, could you please site your sources for this quote? I would like to read more about this.

LordDarkon wrote:

I would like to read more about this.

It's not a quote, just a hypothetical answer from the hypothetical historian you could talk to. If you want to read more, I guess start with Wikipedia:Trepanning, which already has more info than I am bothered to learn, and then check out their sources.

Oh, and shame on you both. You can't deny that you've been active over the last few days, but you haven't written anything in the RP thread.

I had no Idea what Dhanyl could have said, so I thought "better write nothing than something stupid".

Aaand thus everyone fell silent. You don't have to make sure that your character appears hundred percent professional and competent. Roleplay is about the flaws of a person as well. I can totally picture Dhanyl making a weird comment because his mind went off on a total tangent.

No, I mean, I literally don't know what he could say. I didn't mean that he would say something stupid, but that the quality of my contribution would be insufficient.

Well, Valorum did basically say that 'Dhanyl might be able to back me up on this' before arguing that the search for Tor should gravitate towards colder stars and planets. Dhanyl could either confirm or refute that and cite an article or report he read.

I'm just spitballing, though. If you can't think of anything to say, don't force yourself.

By the way, is the ship just going to stay in the planet's orbit and just scan it from afar or will it land and the crew will conduct a survey?

Also, here's a nice baked salmon for all of you. 

While Dhanyl is right in the universe of Endless Space, just FYI: In reality, stars get hotter as they age. It's very unintuitive given the analogy to burning things, unfortunately that's nature for you. To make things even more confusing, if a star is more massive, it gets hotter (no problem with the analogy there), but also lives shorter, because the reaction speed rising with the internal pressure outgrows the larger reserves of fuel.

And to answer Zennock's question: We'll do planetside expeditions from time to time, yes. The Saviour has a small shuttle for that purpose.

...is it just me, or does anyone else imagine Valorum sounding like Artanis from Starcraft 2?

I han't imagined a voice for anyone yet, but a Protos voice seems unfitting for a Vodiany.

Anyways, Argumentum ad hominem? Am I stupid or is Ylona unreasonable?

AngelicStorm wrote:

...is it just me, or does anyone else imagine Valorum sounding like Artanis from Starcraft 2?

MY WIFE FOR HIRE

But in all of seriousness, I love Starcraft! It's actually one of my favourite game of all time and one of the few games that really made me love games. 

Though, on the topic of Valorum sounding like Artanis, I heavily disagree. I can't picture clearly a creature without a face speaking english and the Vodyani feels much more evil than the Protoss. 

I would imagine a merge of Artanis, Alarak, and religious chanting. 

Obviously, Ylona is in the wrong here, it's an argument ad vodyanem :P.

More seriously, though, yes, she's slightly overreacting. Being in command got to her head.

Given that we more or less wrapped up the current scene, what would you all think of a time-jump forward to when the Saviour zooms past the mysterious cloud that Dhanyl wants to research?

I'm also okay with a time-jump. 

I was thinking the same thing. Time-jump away!

Prepare for warp speed!

All right, then. I'll post something tomorrow morning.