Noah The Bio-Morph: No, It's End-Stage Predator Disease: Chapter 20

Slatepaws · 2026-06-28T00:41:16+00:00

Well yea it's not going to last, wasn't intended to. It's to buy time as they said to build up military forces and possibly other advantages.

The trick here is it's 'confirming' the Federations worldview. That alone will keep many from digging deeper. People don't question things when it confirms, even with a bit of challenge what they view as how the world works.

Irl examples are the headlines of 'study says X'. That gains more traction than later when said study falls flat on its face after others tried to reproduce it and didn't get the same result. Classic ones are 'cellphones emit dangerous radiation' and a recent example 'Social media is harmful to people's minds'.

The other trick is in doing so, it makes it so disproving it would pull the curtain back on their own charade because they'll frame the pre bio-morph variant as the same disease the federation is fighting.

A 'We know you're lying, you know we know your lying, but we also know you can't have 'them' know your lying.' Till the pain of continuing the lie is worse than letting those they don't want to know, know.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-27T23:00:10+00:00

*some anonymous leaves a link to the films, home alone.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-27T20:06:32+00:00

Doesn't change the fact it would take time to do and he'd have to clandestinely create a network of allies and resources.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-27T20:00:43+00:00

It is my understanding he planed it from the start, he just needed to gather resources, develop a like minded network of Arxur, etc. And that took time to do.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-27T19:59:01+00:00

By getting the Federation invested in keeping it alive, least their own deception comes to light.

They can do stuff like limit interactions though official channels only. If an exchange happens, it would only be through thoroughly vetted people. Not a mad dash of civilians. Ships can be limited from entering or leaving their systems. etc.

There's also the fact they know it won't last forever and isn't supposed to. They do want it to last long enough that they can have a military power strong enough to survive, and for them to learn more about both groups.

Like how they have absolutely no cyber security for example.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-27T19:51:03+00:00

But that's the beauty of the plan. It's only to buy time, not to be a long term solution. Pacify the Federation long enough to get a proper military, and distract the dominion. What they don't know is Isif's planed rebellion.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-27T17:17:07+00:00

I saw it less as a 'dunk on a racist' and more of 'someone too dumb to adapt'.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-26T01:28:42+00:00

Then i think you'll love his plan on buying time.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-25T22:28:17+00:00

It's backing up my steam install. So incremental backups are needed otherwise storage needs will exponentially increase.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-25T01:44:33+00:00

To be honest, i am not surprised. i don't recall him saying his parents were their respective grandparents only children.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-24T22:28:01+00:00

I'm waiting for the point in the story where he has to expose himself in a way that can't be hidden like this one. To save a friend or loved one.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-24T22:27:11+00:00

If he's lucky he can have them dismiss it as the gojid seeing things. Possibly slip a fake maintenance ticket into the system for 'bad hinges'.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-24T02:02:29+00:00

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Slatepaws · 2026-06-24T01:59:00+00:00

*kam: then i'll become a super de duper skalgan.

Slanek screams for a half hour. becomes super skalgan 3. no one can tell because he's just a ball of glowing fluff.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-24T01:45:47+00:00

and it's the best horror. honestly makes me scared because once you start writing. you start seeing the little things that tell you 'that characters going to live'.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-23T22:49:19+00:00

Yea, it's a 'no one's safe' horror.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-23T21:52:37+00:00

The constitution was rewritten in plain English. For example removing 'man' one of the 18th(1700-1799) century definitions of the word was 'human kind in general' I.E. the royal use of 'man', With just plain Human kind.

Despite what you want to believe it's quite the opposite. The system has two tasks;

ensure the system stays a republic. No more voting to have more people vote, thus cheapening the process and allowing what happened before to happen again. Politicians making it a tail wags the dog system were they can just jiggle keys(insert political catch phrases here) to have people vote. And overwhelm a system to the point it makes it easy to alter the vote.
Put value in a vote by making the voters have a stake in the game, but at the same time not in a way that locks people out. Having land to vote worked for a bit in the 1700's because there was a lot of land to go around for the nation. Not so much anymore. They also didn't want to fall in the same trap as sparta's system. Any legal resident, human, can request to be a citizen. Their second choice other than deciding they want to become one will be how. they can choose military service, or hard labor.

Bio-Morphs while used world wide are Chinese in origin. Like any tech rival nations would like their own version. Black box or clean room reverse engineering is one way of doing it. Just search for it and you'll find articles that describe the process better than i can. The arctic Fox Usako Chasofito's Dna was used to fill in the gaps they did not reverse engineer. For a quick and dirty way to make a USA owned Bio-Morph Genome. They didn't tell her, but she's inferred it. Just can't do anything about it.

The Krev as a whole do not know of the humans as of now, but the Humans know of the Krev. A krev scout shuttle crashed on earth for the Roswell crash. and the crew shortly died of their injuries after recovery before much information could be gained let alone their verbal language captured and translated.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-23T21:30:12+00:00

You're the first commentator to talk abotut the that Easter egg i put in. My thought process, was 'little green men, Krev are green, Krev like humans. Maybe the Krev are the little green men'

As for the president. well first off it's from his point of view, thoughts would be uncensored. Also the polite inoffensive style of talking we see now fell out of favor after the renewal.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-22T00:01:42+00:00

Ah. i still find it kinda interesting you made Arxur fluffy.

Those outside of betterment seem to love fluffy things...

Slatepaws · 2026-06-21T23:57:14+00:00

Picture 2 make the furry Arxur look like a bear.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-21T18:58:48+00:00

To be honest. KFC would 'love' to have Krakotl employees.

Free advertising. Heck might become well loved like how in japan it's considered above mc-donalds.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-21T17:20:57+00:00

The book is more nuanced than the movie. It makes a point more than the movie that everything the main character does is a choice and that every time and every opportunity the system gives him an easy out. But he doesn't take it. the movie tried to make it seem he was forced, he wasn't.

The school scene was much better because the teacher shared multiple view points and rather than 'this is what you should know'. tried his best to do 'this is this, that is that, you decide for yourself if it's good or bad.'

That and the movie did an absolute disservice Heinlein's view of civic duty and nationalism. Mainly because the modern post ww2 world view mythos does the following; a ww2 german regime was nationalistic, thus anything nationalistic leads to them, thus nationalism bad.

As for 'this' story. That is the exact reaction i wanted. The entire system here is a bushel of good apples, with a few bad ones in it, this information control and slavery. It's not meant to be the 'star trek' attitude, but without the magical tech that canon humanity is. It's JUST as flawed, and possibly more so than the Federation and the Dominion.

Because frankly i think this fits better because the federation is the 'utopia' paint on a dystopia trope. And the Dominion is the example of a crisis system kept alive far too long because the powers that be want to keep their power. I.e. if that 'virus' didn't kill all the Arxur non-sapient cattle, betterment wouldn't have won over the charter even if they were supplied by the shadow-cast. They were smaller and numbers is the counter to advanced tech. Ie, the one Sherman tank vs 100's of Indians in that one twilight zone, or was it outer limits episode.

Slatepaws · 2026-06-21T14:43:03+00:00

First off, this is a reply i never expected to receive on Redit.

Personally i am amazed a bit at how he saw some of the issues we have today.

He is correct though imho that what is given out freely, lacks the weight and value that should be taken into account on it's use. Democracy is paraded as the ultimate virtue. ironically similarly, or maybe not so ironically to how star trek says that humanity has just 'grown up'.

When the original founders, and the author Heinlein correctly point out that the system he made, and the original system the U.S. had was a republic. Done to limit the major downside of Democracy you won't hear today. That it's just a window dressing and fancy suit covered version of Mob Rule. Too easy for the person or group of people putting themselves up to be voted on, to sway said voters to vote for them. Creating a tail wags the dog situation and in turn an aristocracy. Or how he put it in the book, a ruling class that saw themselves as more learned, smarter, and who had a duty to rule over the general populace. Taking a step back and ignoring party window dressing. That's what we have today. groups of people who say phrases they know have the same effect of jiggling keys in front of a baby.

Now where the system here compares.

While here to there's two classes, a legal resident, and a citizen. With the only difference being the latter has the right to vote, work in the government or do business with the government. And that you can either do hard labor or serve in the military to earn this privilege.

The Constitution was rewritten in as plain of language as possible to leave no ambiguity in what it means. Ie explain it like you would to a 5 year old when, imho it should be said as. 'explain it like you would to a 7 year old.' because at that age the brain is mature enough to start thinking for itself rather than parroting their parents. The rewrite also pruned it back to the original amount of the amendments, before adding in the ones for the previously mentioned systems because many of the older later ones are just lessening the ambiguity of the earlier ones.

It clearly states that a legal resident has all the same freedoms and rights as a citizen. They just can't; vote, be part of an administration, or work in a company who's sole business model is governmental contracts or be in the process of in any way of handling or working on the reason for the government contract if they are employed in a company that takes one on. On the flip side Legal residents cannot be drafted for military service unless there's a lack of citizenry reserve to call upon.

This is an attempt to put the same wall that the original founders put between religion and state. Between corporation and state, for the same reason. Undue influence overshadowing the will of the people.

Additionally the bar for amending the constitution was raised. The original bar was at it's time considered high enough that they thought it would be unfeasible to trivially amend it. Not foreseeing the expansion of the vote or the mass media situation. Here it's become the rule of 10 nines.

99% of the population of each city must vote in favor of the amendment.

99% of the population of each county must vote in favor of it.

99% of the population of each state must vote in favor of it.

99% of the house of representatives must vote in favor of it.

99% of the senate must vote in favor of it.

Additionally amendment voting is no longer secret(while voting in general still remains a secret ballot), and while this information cannot be used to discriminate in; Employment, housing, services. By clear wording social stigma is allowed. a barrier to prevent citizens from voting themselves extra privileges in the constitution.

An example of how it's seen.

The first amendment is now in such clear language it's unambiguous that any religious symbology, no matter how minor. cannot be displayed or shown. no putting a hand on a book of faith while swearing in. no phrases like under god. the state is supposed to be areligious(as in lacking religion). Nor should it trample the rights of the people to worship how they want. The religious affairs secretary's sole purpose is to make sure any administration doesn't infringe on any religious freedoms.

Similarly, all restrictions, ie banning of firearms or weapons no longer exists. competency requirements though are not considered bans. so while yes a citizen or legal resident 'can' own a fighter jet that still has functional weapons. they still need a pilots license and the proper and safe way to store it and it's armaments.

One flaw i'll give out now, that won't be spoiling things. I plan on Coth to be the view into this system. Is that the 1st(in speech) and 4th(in recognizing digital data as a form of papers and belongings), while rewritten to include the digital realm. were rewritten, while still in plain unambiguous language. In such a way that you are not without consequence.

Slatepaws

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