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Published: 2010-04-02 03:47:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 3409; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 37
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Description This is Nia. She used to be an ordinary human, but elected to go through a process to transform her into a "morphic," which is more or less a living, biological spaceship. Why? Because she liked the idea of being out in space, on a more personal level than any normal human has ever been. However, unlike other morphics, who grow to thousands of feet in length, Nia is the size of an ordinary human being; she just feels it's more personal that way. Hence she doesn't have the crew or cargo space normal morphics do; she is just altered for survival and mobility in open space. And she likes it!


So =Blazbaros posted this image the other day, and I saw it and thought "holy crap, that's something I've never seen before...and it's actually pretty cool!" Naturally, I had to take my own stab at the concept. I don't know if the whole human-sized morphic deal is supposed to be possible or not in the setting his picture's in, so if anyone asks this is just a nicking of the concept, which belongs to ~aliasi . I tried for harder shadows than I usually do, you know, because of the vacuum; not sure how well that worked.
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EASTFverse [2025-04-05 05:57:23 +0000 UTC]

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aeodia [2011-03-03 11:19:22 +0000 UTC]

I wanna be a morphic like her! Where should i sign

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nothingsp In reply to aeodia [2011-03-03 15:03:25 +0000 UTC]

Oh, it should be readily available in only a few hundred years...

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aeodia In reply to nothingsp [2011-03-03 15:29:46 +0000 UTC]

Bad news, inform me when it's available then...

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nothingsp In reply to aeodia [2011-03-03 15:34:05 +0000 UTC]

I'll put you on the mailing list

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Blazbaros [2010-04-29 05:40:06 +0000 UTC]

XD Now where have I seen THAT before. . .

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nothingsp In reply to Blazbaros [2010-04-29 12:16:26 +0000 UTC]

Yep Thanks for the inspiration!

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Blazbaros In reply to nothingsp [2010-04-29 16:50:09 +0000 UTC]

Anytime XD

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alexwarlorn [2010-04-15 23:58:15 +0000 UTC]

What amuses and interests me is what kind of effect this would have on the psychology of the human ships.

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nothingsp In reply to alexwarlorn [2010-04-16 00:17:58 +0000 UTC]

Good question. From the definition page =Blazbaros linked to, it looks like the full-size ship-people can manifest a human-size avatar within themselves, but still, you have to wonder how they'd come to see themselves...

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alexwarlorn In reply to nothingsp [2010-04-16 01:15:33 +0000 UTC]

Since they don't die of old age, their former fellow humans are now the size of ants if not smaller, and interact with others with what's ultimately a glorified benign angler puppet, and can never ever enter a planet's atmosphere again (and thus see the sights up closer and personal since their puppet can't leave the themselves except to enter another living ship) due to their structure just now build for outer space rather than the gravity of a planet's surface, and have countless of their former follow humans now living inside them... their psychology would HAVE be different from that of humans or they'd go stark raving mad.

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nothingsp In reply to alexwarlorn [2010-04-16 03:38:33 +0000 UTC]

Could be...

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alexwarlorn In reply to nothingsp [2010-04-16 03:44:58 +0000 UTC]

Not just imagine what happens when a MALE asks to join the living ship core... kinda jars the fantasy eh?

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nothingsp In reply to alexwarlorn [2010-04-16 13:03:31 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, good question. I know the document said they're sterile, but sterile and dysfunctional ain't the same thing...

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alexwarlorn In reply to nothingsp [2010-04-16 20:29:40 +0000 UTC]

Just imagine, you naked in space forever, everyone else around you the size of ants by comparison who now LIVE INSIDE YOU, you can never have children, everyone else you know and come to know dying of old age, you can never set foot on Earth or any planet without collapsing under your own weight... The psychology and brain structure of those who enlist would HAVE to be anything but human if they were to stay sane and functional...

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nothingsp In reply to alexwarlorn [2010-04-16 21:29:34 +0000 UTC]

Well, now, that all depends on what you define as "human," psychologically speaking. Certainly it seems like a lot for you or I to cope with, but you only need to look around dA for an hour or two to realize the near-infiniteΒ° variety that can be found in ordinary human minds. Maybe there are people who really would be happy as such an entity?

Β° And often disturbing, but that's a different point altogether...

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alexwarlorn In reply to nothingsp [2010-04-17 00:35:43 +0000 UTC]

That feels too much like a cop-out to me.

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nothingsp In reply to alexwarlorn [2010-04-17 01:46:55 +0000 UTC]

Devoted to the "insanity or inhumanity," then? Feels too either-or to me. People are complicated.

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alexwarlorn In reply to nothingsp [2010-04-17 02:26:04 +0000 UTC]

Maybe, but as another person I read (don't know who) said, the mind rules the body, but the body shapes the mind.

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Seiniyta [2010-04-02 11:31:08 +0000 UTC]

In space the shadows would most likely be pitch black, though not really desired in a piece of work (here it wouldn't really fit)

Ohteriwe, it looks really cute.

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nothingsp In reply to Seiniyta [2010-04-02 13:07:21 +0000 UTC]

Right. Obviously I'm not going for strict scientific accuracy; I just thought I ought to do it a little sharper than usual. I kind of think I could've done that better, but oh well :/

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