R4V3-0N wrote: The thing that is sort of problematic with your ideas is one does not simply reprogram a engi. They are a sentient being with a 'Hive" like mind from each nano-bot to nano-bot that makes up the whole organism. Kinda like how a biological being have there cells communicate to each other... but in a more advance method which could be going along the ideas of like having a engi being more like a country with it's own 'goverment'. a colony of nanobots to form a larger physical being so to say... my idea on the take that is.
Yes, but there is that one out of fuel event that says "Someone must have reprogrammed these Engies to fight" and this is not CE-exclusive. This indicates the Engies can be reprogrammed to or that they suffer fatal errors (like with that wrecked Zoltan ship. They decide to fight you despite the fact that their escortee is destroyed and don't take no for an answer)
I think 'brain washing' engi (regular term) is probable but the thing is out of all the races that can be manipulated I doubt the mantis could do that... they can't even hold a rench let alone reprogram and rewrite a organisms 'brain'.
They could always try the medieval methods of inducing pain until the subject "breaks" or they get "broken"
What if the Engies were being "reprogrammed" by their fellow Engi slaves or had the brainwashing done by the original slaver?
I still think the engi are simply there as war slaves. forced as labour. It doesn't want to die. it want's to continue it's existence.
I like to harbour the scary thought that the Mantis are being controlled by the Engies as a sort of "population control" or as a way of maintaining order and authority. Why? Because aliens.
if it was some other race I think under those harsh conditions they would have jumped out of the air lock quite soon... probably is the reason why there is no human slaves on mantis ships
Or when they tried "breaking" their slaves, they accidentally "broke" them.
FreedomFighter wrote:Shouldn't Slug, and Mantis don't get penalty from forcing slave to work on their ship? I understand about Rock since they really don't like other species to present with them. Lanius ship should get something that make them special. The Requisition License pretty much suck imo. If both A and B start with unique augmentation or scrap recovery arm, it would make more sense since they like scrap anyway.
A Scrap Recovery Arm at the start would make any ship overpowered quite quickly. Even if it was nerfed in CE.
The license doesn't suck either. You show it at a fuel station and they give you about 3 fuel for free and it makes those idle beacons with those traders into targets. So long as you don't try a boarding strategy.
Also, Slugs prefer making dishonest bargains or shooting first when it comes to deals. Slave-trading is probably heavily frowned upon in their neo-liberal economy, especially since they're trying to cephlaform everything. Mantises on the other hand take Engi slaves all the time and possibly others. But they don't ever break agreements because they're somewhat honourable beings.
Look at Kazaaak or those ship collectors for examples.
FTL was so creative about making many non humanoid looking aliens, the only thing I think they're missing is Groots.
