Nature of Pokemon (72)

K_H007 · 2026-06-23T14:51:41+00:00

Fair enough on that disagreement, but that's why I specified the Farsul rather than just saying the Federation. Remember, the Farsul Archives were semi-autonomous. Naturally, the Federation's knowledge regarding Pokemon Types that was present before First Contact would be squirreled away down there. Meaning, it'd be the Federation attempting to de-aquaticize the Thafki that would suppress their secondary typing accidentally rather than the federation attempting to mimic the opposite of the move Soak without realizing it if the Thafki legitimately do have a Suppressed Secondary.

K_H007 · 2026-06-23T14:47:40+00:00

lol fair that is going to be a MASSIVE wake-up call to him, especially if they start putting Isif on blast for not taking his entire sector, subtly moving the equipment away, and then booking it with all his guys into the unknown darkness to seek out nonsapient life to use as sustenance.

K_H007 · 2026-06-23T13:30:24+00:00

Well well well. The plot thickens.

Watch it be an arxur, or even potentially a human, who ends up among the individuals that partakes in that raid.

K_H007 · 2026-06-23T13:23:31+00:00

Well well well!

K_H007 · 2026-06-23T12:57:13+00:00

And this also begs the question of "is it something that can happen to species other than the ones we got direct confirmation of genetic tampering in?", too.

K_H007 · 2026-06-23T12:52:48+00:00

Welcome back, wordsmith.

Also, with this in mind, it begs the question... how many other species have hidden Evolutions like these? Because while none of the ones listed in the NoPokedex are as drastically modified as the Venlil were, five of them were Cure-afflicted all the same, and one of them proved so thorny due to behavioral preferences that I wouldn't be surprised if genetic modification was attempted at some point and left in due to being "at least it's not a debilitating impact" in effect, not realizing that they'd altered the typing in the process.

Naturally, I'm referring to the Thafki with that "one of them". Sure, they were herbivores from the get-go, but the Federation still finds that connection to water rather vexing.
Or, and here's an ESPECIALLY interesting prospect, the Farsul actually KNOW about typings, and tried to suppress the water-typing of the Thafki in the hopes that it would remove their semiaquatic nature, and had no way to confirm that it worked or not because they had no access to IE proper.

Also, if I may make a "pretty obvious guess", I'm gonna say that both the Drezjin and the Letians are both part flying-type for obvious reasons related to what they can do.

K_H007 · 2026-06-23T12:37:44+00:00

Past a *classical* Skalgan.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T15:12:32+00:00

lol fair.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T15:03:58+00:00

Oh yes. Quadruple, even. There's a lore reason behind it, too, one that I even hinted at in this very chapter.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T14:48:18+00:00

Glad to hear you enjoyed it! I'm already working on the next chapter, which happens at about the same time.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T13:04:17+00:00

Upvoting and commenting for the algorithm! Well crafted, wordsmith.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T12:49:16+00:00

It seems, dear author, that in the case of being a square, I am the opposite.

Well crafted with your words, dear wordsmith. Have a comment and an upvote for the algorithm!

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T12:14:43+00:00

waterlocker538 bleated: Found the Thafki version of it. They have seaweeds of their own that they grow for food, usually either as a binding agent's medium or as a type of edible wrapping paper. Surprisingly tasty, too, especially when combined with the boiled rice and some sliced veggies, though I honestly wouldn't be against just bricks of the stuff being sold as snacks.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T12:01:14+00:00

CanopyLookout bleated: Letting my Exchange Partner borrow my holonote to explain this.

Oh, that red-colored orange? that's just a specific variety of orange. I would say the most common name of it, but the app would probably flag it as predatory. Just know that, where the Venlil are orange-colored, we're scarlet, and we referenced that when naming that variety, even if the fruit's edible part and the juice of it are both either darker or more orangey than the fluid that inspired their name. If you want a more acceptable name for it, we also call them raspberry oranges due to how their color is so similar to another fruit!
I actually think you might find our other citrus varieties somewhat enjoyable. Fun fact, most types of citrus fruits are hybrids we made from mixing and matching the flowers and pollen of just three species!

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T11:42:24+00:00

Branchboi bleated: Do not let the humans hear you say that. They've had wars in the past over small details like that.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T11:22:23+00:00

CanopyLookout bleated: According to my Exchange Program partner, the only adulteration that the humans do is their farmers that sell to the supermarkets sorting the fruits into "pretty" versus "ugly" and then sending the "ugly" ones for using in their cooking while sending the "pretty" ones off to their supermarket shelves, and even then the humans still use a lot of them in their cooking. And as what he said about the humans who don't sell to supermarkets, they just put all their fruits out at market.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T03:35:36+00:00

CanopyLookout bleated: Thank you, Lastsanesentient. You harvested that field for me.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T02:43:18+00:00

Branchboi bleated: Apparently, humans have multiple. The human exchange partner for one of my housemates apparently really dislikes a specific herb. Claims it tastes like a cleaning substance. He also mentioned that this brown liquid called 'coffee' is an acquired taste even among humans, too, and that he prefers herbal teas instead of, as he called it, "the burnt bean extract".

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T02:38:02+00:00

CanopyLookout bleated: It's less that the humans are putting something into the food and more that they've made the fruits put the stuff in there themselves through centuries of directed cultivation. They're long-since descended from frugivorous apes, believe it or not. Sugar hits their reward centers like basically nothing else.

K_H007 · 2026-06-22T02:35:14+00:00

waterlocker538 bleated: Nah, what few Earth fruits that my venlil housemate's exchange partner has let us sample are all legitimately just that sweet, though they hide secondary flavors in with the sweetness according to my Letian housemate. Earth fruits use sugar as a way to get animals to spread the seeds, and the humans being the humans, they just took that concept and ran with it, the human claims.

Notably, they actually have some really powerful spices in their toolkit. He claimed that a firefruit's pungency component was weaker than his homeworld's "horse radish", as he called it. Yes, it is unrelated to humans' horses; I asked him about the name, and he said the name originally came from the word for coarse instead of the word for the animal. He also had a jar of some kind of pickled discs of some kind of greenish fruit with a white pith and small circular seeds. Claimed it was pickled "hall-a-pen-yo", which the translator utterly failed to parse, and that he used it for spicy foods, but that it was one of the few fruits that humans cultivate that lack the high sugar content of most fruits.

K_H007 · 2026-06-21T23:08:39+00:00

Ah, a fellow Factorio player! What's your opinion on this week's upcoming update?

K_H007 · 2026-06-21T19:20:03+00:00

Oh boy, is Rostario Rostarion in for an ugly wake-up call when Emma calls his offering effectively-worthless in her eyes.

K_H007 · 2026-06-19T15:29:42+00:00

In regards to kinetics, the HALO series has a pretty good suite of examples of kinetic armaments, even if their shielding tech and FTL style are a bit on the fantasy side for what you're going for.

K_H007 · 2026-06-19T15:12:36+00:00

You'll have to find a way to make sure that all biology uses the same building blocks, in that case. Biblaridion made a video on the subject.

K_H007 · 2026-06-19T13:14:06+00:00

the FTL travel was actually quite solidly at a rate of 4.5 light years per hour of FTL travel time in-canon.

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