[week 3] [day 326, after the nation eater battle] More matters of perspective

[razorblade_empress]

So... during the big fight this morning I tried to see if the Nation Eaters had any perspectives to read. Turns out they did.

First off, they use bioelectricity and psionic signatures to track their prey, more than any other sense, but those senses also include thermal and pressure. Turns out all that lightning we're using on them is actually blinding them. It also turns out that what they're detecting is food - which makes sense, but for them, 'food' means psychic energy. Flesh is just... kinda there.

Also, I compared the little ones to the big one, and it turns out that first of all, they're not babies and adults - they're actually all adults, many generations apart. They're different subspecies, different phenotypes, and it took them only a century of evolution to get there. Which implies that they have biological processes completely unlike any other beings. They can't be engineered - they're too different for scientists to have created them out of anything that exists. And if they can vary that much in size in a century, then there's no reason to believe the biggest ones we know of are as large as they can get. If they have an upper boundary, it's probably beyond what we've seen. Maybe far beyond.

I don't know how much any of that helps, but I figured I'd throw it out there for the more scientifically minded Travelers to mull over.