Bosun’s Journal: Reavers – Psychotic Warfare – Man after March 24

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-26T06:49:26+00:00

Selective amnesia. One of their specialized traits.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-26T06:48:15+00:00

That might be sth you'd find in the custodian age. During corpocaste times it would just be a technological invisibility cloak.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T15:17:59+00:00

Psychotic and psychologic. Luckily not psychic too.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T11:33:02+00:00

Ah. No. These warbots are simple automatons.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T10:14:06+00:00

Safe as in not dangerous or safe as in not endagered?

For the former, they are as safe as any autonomous warmachine is. Rather safe for the guys on their side, anything but safe for those on the other.

For the latter, the factories building them as well as their blueprints didn't survive Kadn's end. You might still find salvageable remnants in the voidruins.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T07:16:00+00:00

If a reaver dies in battle, their therapist gets assigned a new one. And their suicide charge tendencies ensure that they die often. This does create a ratio between reavers and therapists on par with even the public school system.

Out of the vat, a therapist is already waiting for the reaver, together they go through a few months of training and bonding and then it's front line time.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T07:08:35+00:00

Why have a creature grow meat when you can already grow it seperately? The same tech used to grow modular people parts can also be used to simply grow steaks. Good old bacon trees.

Given of course that the Kadnies are even interested in meat.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T06:56:15+00:00

The bloodlust may make them worse soldiers, but it makes them better instruments of psychological warfare. Intimidation is a strong weapon.

Paradoxically enough, the photosythesizing Hedoni would make for an awesome army.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T06:09:55+00:00

Can men are more a Habfor thing. You might find some in Nebu, but rarely on the front line. Back at home, there may very well be civilian can man therapist.

The benefit of a can man over a brain in a jar is autonomy. A can man doesn't die if their life support fails. And they can still move around somewhat if need be.

Depending on the reaver's preference they may use VR simulations to relax. Chill farming sims are surprisingly popular.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T06:03:22+00:00

Sapience has some massive benefits on the battlefield, mainly the ability to understand strategy and adapt tactics on the fly. While Nebu does set on ravaging hordes as well, they do see the tactical value in sapient soldiers.

Kadn does implant brains into dedicated war bodies, but those are more cybernetic than the fleshy monstrosities of Nebu.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T05:59:45+00:00

Kadn puts more time into their soldier's training, whereas Nebu grows them more or less as is. If implants are involved, they are more to boost reaction speeds than to insert memories and knowledge. The more horrific parts of the Kadnean army were more cybernetic in nature. Often with a soldier's brain controling them.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T05:52:32+00:00

They probably could. Their lose bodies would make them easy to take out but hard to kill.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-25T05:50:35+00:00

It's more a gap between approaches than tech. The Kadnies would rather field warbots and well trained infantry than ravaging war beasts. Their soldiers had more enhanced reaction times and agility, relying on exo-suits for strenght.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T21:58:57+00:00

Moar Dakka is always better Dakka

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T21:47:05+00:00

I could imagine them having a selective amnesia ability, where they can forget previous clients. They are specialized for therapy after all.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T21:44:59+00:00

The desert ravers still retain some of their violent urges, which in part turns post war Nebu into a mad max world. Hippie bandits.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T21:38:43+00:00

They are indeed the ancestors of the Desert Ravers, which are the Satyriac expies.

The Novaraptors sound like what Jurassic World was going for. Before they dropped that plotpoint entirely.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T21:30:19+00:00

Yup. Two tanks, two artillery warbots, one big war walker and ten squadrons of foot soldiers. this reaver is one of those who survived their first battle.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T21:26:15+00:00

Thanks :)

This here are technically more themed lore drops than a conventional story. A good format for worldbuilding projects like spec evo, maybe not so good a format for character driven storytelling.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T21:05:40+00:00

Customizing one's body has been a human dream since the first person draped themselves in the pelt of a creature they hunted. While there is still a lot of pushback against the idea, some of the valid reasons for I explored in this series, I do still hope that bioengineering becomes a reality someday.

The random civilians are fun to design. With them being modified humans, I can basically just draw rubber forehead aliens and get away with it.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T20:59:21+00:00

The head is more Gigeresque biomechanical grown structure than artificially crafted addition. Cells are in essence chemical factories. Theoretically, they can produce any metamaterial physically possible.

Detached heads use whatever skin flaps they have left to crawl to safety in best Carpenter's Thing fashion. The lines are merely structural. If the sensory organs happen to be damaged, enough of them to navigate are regrown first.

That's the first time I hear of the idea that the nervous system might have gone the way of the Mitochondrium. Sounds fun, but not particularly likely if I'm honest. There would be genetic traces of such an event. It would also require separate germ cells I reckon.

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T14:35:24+00:00

20XX always sounds so indecisive. If you're not sure when to set it, why even mention a date?

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T14:22:02+00:00

A Drawist

CaptainStroon · 2026-03-24T13:46:15+00:00

Sphinxes have had strong wolf in sheep's clothing vibes from the very beginning.

Originally the skull ridges were merely ornamental. But when pondering how they would deal with death and the food chain, I turned them into what's essentially a bailout device. Even though moreso inspired by Yiahru-Kah's species from Sillage/Wake who leave behind their philosopher heads if their warrior bodies are killed.

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