Is… is that not normal?
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…I like how you think.
Sadly, there are many who would think otherwise.
For your specific setting, there probably will not be open warfare. Won’t stop us (read: a not insignificant amount of the human population) from trying to exploit them though. Can we study them? Can we seal them into our circuits to make supercomputers? Can we make them into radiation shields / generators / etc? At the very least, can we withhold bodies from them unless they agree to serve us?
Basically whether or not we would assign them the protection of ‘human’ rights.
I would think that an advanced spacefaring society would have mastered drone technology and relativistic/FTL travel and a million other things that we are still theorizing about. After crossing untold space to reach it, entering a gas giant should not be particularly difficult. And since the Sappers apparently need humans to build them bodies, they probably don’t have similar technology. How fast they could learn, though…
I’ve forgotten to ask: how intelligent are these guys (compared to us) and what type of intelligence do they have?
@sljzz Intelligence is a relative term m8. ie “That’s a smart dog.” or “My fish knows a trick.” or “This elephant can paint a picture.” or “This human thinks they understand string theory.”
What is applied in our daily lives is simple to us. What’s applied in their daily lives is simple to them. However, due to our base nature, they can be vastly different. Think about how different our daily lives would be if the planet was say 50 degrees cooler. Over all, even getting access to liquid water would require some type of intelligent act, but certainly, there would be animals that would find some sort of method that works perfectly for them. Who’s smarter at that point? Us for figuring out some elaborate method of doing something they would likely do quite easily? Same end goal and possibly the same base idea behind our methods, but likely different levels of intelligence attributed to us vs them just because we have different ways.
So the Sappers… true I dont think they would have a method of space travel without us. Or even physical bodies without us. But remember, they are the ones ultimately responsible for our ability to manipulate White Points and thus the ones responsible for our power generation for our ships. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship. They provide assets and services that humanity is unable to provide and humanity provides assets and services that Sappers are unable to provide. ( and doing forget about the Ghost who do the same… in a way… ) “Trapping” them ect is not a viable idea since it is only by mutual effort that both species are able to prosper more than they ever would.
Any exploitation on either species’ behalf would ultimately be detrimental to both species as our relationship would ultimately be one of symbiosis and cooperation.
Our mastery of space travel only will be possible by embracing our discoveries as we explore. As they are a direct result of our exploration, it would stand to reason that our willingness to embrace their discovery and indeed work together ultimately yields advancements of their own.
In the story, it is a matter for the history books. ( Sappers and humanities first contact ) As before we discovered them, we had no FTL methods. Space travel was done the “old school” way, probably cryosleep or something along those lines. ( probably not going to touch much on it in the story since it’s a moot point ) It was only with the cooperation of both species that White Point technology was developed. This technology allows for my own version of worm hole travel ( I think most techy readers will enjoy it ).
As far as speed of learning, that goes back to the relativity of intelligence. It might be nothing for them to manipulate energy fields that we haven’t even thought of yet. Then again, the thought of something as simple as respiration may be completely out of their grasp as it’s unprecedented.
Well, @Zintype, here, you have that one guy that will try to break the system to get a greater benefit.
It might make an interesting plot, though. Why don’t you try to find out if such thing can happen in your setting?
Psionics powers are 100% fantasy instead of science fiction so I recommend really leaning into that. The scientists of the world are desperately trying to use quantum mechanics and whatnot to explain the ghosts when the reality is that it’s just plain magic. Already you have three characters: starkly pro-science guy, wistful magic lover, and a realist that tries to marry the fact that science still works but can’t explain everything. You’ve also got a relationship there: two people at each other’s throats (perhaps husband and wife) and a mediator (perhaps their kid).