I enjoy it. It helps if you're in business class flying to place with a reasonable drinking age.

Fuck you. Stop blaming your lack of independent spirit on us and read a book.

Reindeer.

This is the edgiest fucking thread I've seen all week.

Nope.

*Raises mug of tea*

Spiders?

You're boring.

Gloriously.

Two dogs.

Isn't there a forum dedicated to the srsbzns on here?

I didn't even know that game existed.

I need to put my thoughts down somewhere tonight folks. But it seems like I have nobody to discuss things with. So I'm going to throw some shit out into the wind here just because. Don't mind me.

So, I'm working on another little project of mine. But, I've got to do some revisions. Partially because I now realize that the particular idea I have in mind requires some outside the box thinking.

So, we have this species. The galaxy at large knows not too much about them, for two reasons. The first is, they are very hard to find. And second is, they're reclusive in their records. Their name, in their own language, roughly translated into Common, the base spoken language of all in the galaxy, is Chimera.

Chimera's are biologically unique in that they are the only known organic species in the galaxy to have nearly total control over their atomic structure. Roughly speaking, they're shapeshifters. Anything they've ever touched, is remembered in a photographic memory by their body.

As such, their limitations are only based on three things. How far outside the box they can think, the particular material they phase into, and their very short lifespan. No Chimera has ever lived past 15.

Over the course of their life, Chimeras can undergo forced changes at random. The galaxy attributes this to the fact that they exist in a state of quantum uncertainty. But, what it really is, is their bodies breaking down as they age. Past 15, they become unstable, and it's only a matter of time before they break down on the atomic level, and turn to dust. Even less than dust.

Death, in their culture is the most frightful thing to them. In their natural form, which isn't seen often because they only reveal it to those that they trust absolutely, they can become sick, break bones, and take lethal damage, just as any other species. But their unique biology makes them god like, able to go anywhere, do anything. And yet, even they aren't immune to death.

I was trying to think of what a particular species of this types technology would be like, and came to the conclusion, that they build empty vessels and contraptions. And using their own natural biology, they power their devices in a highly coordinated group effort. Reclusive, cooperative, loyal, and very secretive to the outside galaxy.

They come from a pocket of space known as the warped regions. The unstable center of the galaxy. The closer you get to the center, the more volatile it becomes. Stars twist and warp around each other, feeding off each other and colliding. Black holes devour anything in reach, and gravity warps and bends like a child's plaything.

Most life forms that survive long enough in these regions are representations of hyper adaptability or intelligence, able to survive where any other species would die, or escape their chaotic region of space before they are consumed.

There you have it. I've dumped my head empty for the time being. Now lets see if I can write something constructive and un-cluttered.

Their name when translated into Common is Chimera? A fire-breathing creature out of Greek mythology with the body of a lion, a goat sticking out of it's back and a snake for a tail? I find it doubtful that a culture that evolved in isolation from us would pick a name from our mythology to describe themselves, when, as you describe them, they sound xenophobic. I would simply name them after their shape-shifting ability. Like the Shifters, the Amorphous, the Shapeless. My point is that a name can't really be translated if it doesn't have a meaning that is common between two languages. The evidence being that we don't have our own word for Fire-Breathing-Lion-Goat-Snake-Monster, because the English never came up with their own Chimera, they just took the Greek word for it when they heard about it.

I'm sorry that I went off on a rant about your nomenclature, but if you're dead-set on calling them Chimera,don't say, it was translated from their language, just say it's a name that the other cultures in your universe are giving them because the Chimera are so asocial, they haven't even bothered to them a moniker to call them by.

That said, if they are characterized by having such a high level of adaptability that changing is something they do on a whim, I would suggest you make a note of their gadgetry being viewed as more for generalized use, rather being created with a clear use in mind. hey view things based on their potential application, rather their common application.

Ohh I just got KO by the feelz

Ah, good times. I miss the furries, I liked their complete lack of squeamishness when it came to matters of sexuality.