LordDarkon wrote:

MezzoMax wrote:

LordDarkon wrote:

maby its the sophon equivalent of  windshield wipers

Genius! I can't get this out of my head now! A simple logic but soooo brilliant!

Thanks, im flattered :)

 you may now continue worshiping my superior Intellect XD

Well, what else should we expect from a Sophon.

So I guess those little freaks encased their whole bodies in those suits and sealed them shut? Like, what the hell?

DarkHerumor wrote:

If only there was a place where we can find the Sophons evolution...

I see what you did there.

If only there was a place where we can find the Sophons evolution...

Hey that's a bit like my interprétation of Unfallen eye gear (small primitive eyes enhanced by big cameras) 

I wonder if we'll see any Sophon without this full helmet. I think it's a running gag among Amplitude.

MezzoMax wrote:

What if their brains are tiny but the neural networking is 1000X higher than ours?

Or what if they really have tiny eyes and the eys of the helmet are just computer screens. Filled with all the techno babble they need.

Yes! And the 'blinking' could be the computer screens recalibrating! 

What if their brains are tiny but the neural networking is 1000X higher than ours?

Or what if they really have tiny eyes and the eys of the helmet are just computer screens. Filled with all the techno babble they need.

Oh you have some others, like, with eyes this gigantic, there must'nt be much space left into their heads (not considering the raw size of the visual cortex), so as genius, are Sophons brains somewhere in their torso or belly ? :D

Glad to see somebody is asking the important questions here

Yeah I know it's a silly question.

I was reading heroes bios on the wiki, and admiring the amount of work on their portraits and animation.

Then I noticed that there were two competing designs for their eyes :

The first one features blinks and grooves, and it always greenish. It is more opaque.

http://wiki.endless-space.com/academy/asaroenni-dzumalran

http://wiki.endless-space.com/academy/fahemmn-nutharr

The second one doesn't blinks, it is either green or blue, and can mirror light. There are no grooves.

http://wiki.endless-space.com/academy/hanmharla-gerzi

http://wiki.endless-space.com/academy/uthassum-rhamoezz

I'm not a specialist of the lore, but I always thought that Sophons used suits, and as we can see on this picture they can have various designs :

But blinking through your suit ? That's really strange. Do they have some sort of symbiotic relation with it ? Do you think the Sophons might be cyborgs ?

MezzoMax wrote:

LordDarkon wrote:

maby its the sophon equivalent of  windshield wipers

Genius! I can't get this out of my head now! A simple logic but soooo brilliant!

Thanks, im flattered :)

 you may now continue worshiping my superior Intellect XD

I think blinking in a helmet is silly.Like GC3's Yor having eyebrows.It's purely a visual thing to get emotion.

Now that it is brought up here Sophon society sounds really interesting. Like do they replace the eye pieces of their suits when there's so many scratches and microfractures that visibility becomes impaired?

radlawnmower wrote:

LordDarkon wrote:

maby its the sophon equivalent of  windshield wipers

Actually makes the most sense. They wear those suits so often, they would need something to clean it when the lenses get smudges. I was also thinking that maybe the lenses work best when slightly dampened, like actual eyes.

That's a great combo of ideas. It may even explain why some blink while others don't (they are simply different models that work differently).

LordDarkon wrote:

maby its the sophon equivalent of  windshield wipers

Genius! I can't get this out of my head now! A simple logic but soooo brilliant!

LordDarkon wrote:

maby its the sophon equivalent of  windshield wipers

Actually makes the most sense. They wear those suits so often, they would need something to clean it when the lenses get smudges. I was also thinking that maybe the lenses work best when slightly dampened, like actual eyes.

maby its the sophon equivalent of  windshield wipers

I have difficulty telling where the Sophon flesh and suit start and end myself.

However, for a civilisation so advanced, and so focused on technological progress above all else, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch if their bodies are technorganic.

Maybe because helm covers their faces, this augmented "blinking" might replace facial expressions to a certain degree.