| I think the ultimate soldier would be a combination of |
| Human and bear |
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13% |
[ 5 ] |
| Human and cat |
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11% |
[ 4 ] |
| Human and wolverine |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Human and wolf |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| human and preying mantis |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
| Human and spider |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| human and pony |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
| Charles and Auntie |
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58% |
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| Tober and a Smurf |
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11% |
[ 4 ] |
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| Mordag McCallen |
 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: |
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This all aplies if robotics become for some reason to oexpensive compared to human crossbreeds.
I was thinking about animal crosses as soldiers. First to say - human/animal cross is enhancing human, not making being somewhere middle - extracting the best from both species if it is supposed to be uber-soldier, so Jay´s criteria is met.
It depends on purpose of soldiers. In all cases, human brain, bipedal walking and oposition of fingers is human investition.
Close combat specialist, or heavy weapons dude, or front breach guy:
Clearly, this would be a bear. Even though most dangerous animal in world, comming to killing and being danger even to human are strangely hippopotamus, but for some reason that seems out of picture. So bear because he would be strong and resistant with thick skin. Also, ability to partialy hybernate would make them a good choice for long missions with minimal support. Disadvantage would be large frame, therefore good target.
Sniper, spy, covert ops.
Here I would vote for cat.
Clearly because cats being natural climbers, agile, able to adjust to falls from heights. On distantce, you dont need strength, you need percetpion, and hand-eye cooridnation. Also, increased perception, low requirement for light, good hearing, while silently moving and small frame making them hard to hit makes them good candidate. And the cudly cute aspect, if nekoes were ever accepted as normal part of society would make them good bedroom spies, and in other cases might cause oponent to underestimate, or drag attention from important things to notice. Disadvantage would be that they will have their asses easily kicked and wouldnt hold much damage.
One more animal that comes to mind would be bat for night ops. That only providint that they would navigate on frequency that is never heard by humans.
Then I am sure that scientists would be creative and introduce large variety of prototypes of most various kinds - ranging from beings looking like 100% human aside of the needle in finger with poison taken from black widow, to heavily armored scaled lizardmen.
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| Satomi Ashbourne |
| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| Since I'm lobbing my two cents in from my iPod, I'll be brief, however: J8 and Charles - look up Moreaus from d20 Future. Nekos may not be the best frontline combat troops, but with agility, low-light vision, *cough* and deceptive cuteness *cough* they make excellent scouts and observers. Plus, Charles, you can't forget how valuable all those captured nekos are on the slave market. Don't bite the hand that does something-or-other... Also, I'd say crossbreeding would be slower but pay out insofar as you can't EMP a neko.[/u] |
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