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Community The Agaran Menace

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by Razey, Jan 30, 2014.

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The Agarans: Menace or Misunderstood?

  1. Menace

    414 vote(s)
    15.4%
  2. Misunderstood

    333 vote(s)
    12.4%
  3. Mushrooms

    623 vote(s)
    23.2%
  4. Malevolent, Menacing, Misunderstood Mushrooms

    1,319 vote(s)
    49.1%
  1. Villhelm

    Villhelm Phantasmal Quasar

    But to what?and why!

    :saywhat:
     
  2. Cloudhopper

    Cloudhopper Weight of the Sky

    the book Fahrenheit 451?
     
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  3. Villhelm

    Villhelm Phantasmal Quasar

    So directive 0451 is to burn any book that isn't ,well....hylotlish?
     
  4. Tim_Katarn

    Tim_Katarn Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Do you guys get the feeling that they are just mining everyone for ideas and will run with the best one they see?
     
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  5. Villhelm

    Villhelm Phantasmal Quasar

  6. Cloudhopper

    Cloudhopper Weight of the Sky

    Perhaps, like the book-burning in Fahrenheit 451, Directive 0451 is to limit the knowledge of other races for sinister purposes.

    it would explain the "If you do not know what Directive 0451 is, then do not worry about it. Or ask about it. Just do your job, okay?" part.
     
  7. Villhelm

    Villhelm Phantasmal Quasar

    There's only 3 hylotl codex books (excluding Hiraki), ah the irony:proper:
     
  8. Owl_Stalker

    Owl_Stalker Guest

    [INITIATING FIRST API CONFERENCE]

    Halhoom!
    Those of you who have begun to learn the Agaran language will recognize the above word as "Hello!"
    Here at the Agaran Preserve Initiative, we are working to learn and understand the Agarans, and help them into the galactic community.

    Today's Topic
    The Agaran Community
    We have come a long way with our research of the Agarans. Firstly, we have decoded a large portion of their language, allowing us to partially understand them. We have also discovered the "Dark Side" of the Agaran as a race. We are faced with to different Agaran communities to deal with.

    Many of us have seen what we call an "Agaran Settlement". I'll show you an example of one!
    agaransettlement.png

    Here is me, with one of my Agaran friends. His name is "Hoomasquish". He, and the others in his village, where very kind and hospitable. These people nurture and connect with the environment around them. They have their own wildlife. Hoomasquish calls them "Walkshrooms". Unlike others (Including my) speculations, these plump creatures are not "livestock" for the Agarans. Hoomasquish told me not to kill them. He also speaks of the towering mushrooms around their land. He calls them "Naturrashroom". They have green tops. One day, when I was resting after an incident with the local wildlife, I saw two Agarans standing around a tree. One had a fungal growth on almost matching the colossal mushroom. The other was Hoomasquish, who had a head fashioned to be identical to a stink horn. Then they did something unexpected. They rubbed their hands vigorously on the stem of the giant mushroom and rubbed it on their head. Then they dropped and rolled on the ground, got up, and walked away, as if nothing had happened. Their actions left me in complete confusion. The next day told me the purpose of their strange behavior. I walked to the site after I woke up, and saw red dots dappled across the area. Through closer examination, I discovered that they where tiny red mushrooms! What an amazing discovery! I now knew why the various houses had red mushroom growths in the walls and roof.

    I ventured throughout the village and found a sugarcane crop field. There was nobody tending to it, so I decided to enter it and investigate. Surely the Agarans didn't just eat raw sugar? I found nothing of interest, and returned to my apartment, which I had rented from the Agarans for some coralcreep seeds. To my dismay, they ate them on sight. On the bright side, I got the house AND I learned that the Agarans aren't very smart.
    Later, I asked Hoomasquish what he did with the sugarcane, which he referred to as "Frydust". He just blinked at me, and I became very confused. A look of understanding covered his face and he said, "Frydust nab naturra. Good!" In case you aren't an expert on their language, he said, "Sugarcane isn't natural. It's good!" To my disappointment, his words led to the conclusion that the sugarcane was nothing special.

    I felt that my time in their settlement was done, so I decided to leave. Hoomasquish started making strange gasping sounds when I told him the news, which I assumed was the Agarans way of showing sadness. (Or relief!) But I would come back someday, I told him. I wrote down the coordinates and went into hyperspeed, traveling to my home planet, so that I could write my discoveries and send them to API.

    We now know that the Agarans can be kind and hospital people. This shows that they are worth saving.

    Next Meeting's Subject:
    The Agaran Savages

    [ENDING FIRST API CONFERENCE]
     
  9. Your Buddy Bill

    Your Buddy Bill Existential Complex

    Deduction from hylotlsign3b and the semi-hush-hush nature suggests that directive 0451 is to kidnap babies.
    see my "did you know" thread where I explain it in detail
    i am tired and not getting the link
     
  10. Owl_Stalker

    Owl_Stalker Guest

  11. Your Buddy Bill

    Your Buddy Bill Existential Complex

  12. Cloudhopper

    Cloudhopper Weight of the Sky

    If anyone's wondering, I rate this thread 10/10.
    Those sinister Hylotl. Kidnapping babies and bashing the territorial hunters whose curiosity is insatiable.

    Anyway, back to those Agarans.

    Maybe the Hylotl and Agarans are working together, and all the organic races are compatible to Agaran infestation?
    The hylotl would bring the babies to the Agarans, and would receive their continued well-being in return.

    After all, the Hylotl don't appear to have good relations with the other Player Species, and I think that they'd need
    at least one alliance to survive.
     
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  13. Owl_Stalker

    Owl_Stalker Guest

    Not sure if the Hylotl would side with the Agarans and bring them Florans. On one hand, they would do anything to hurt the Florans. On the other hand, why take the risk? The Agaran can't really do anything to the Hylotl becasue of their crippled, nostalgic swords what want to stay at tier 1.
     
  14. Your Buddy Bill

    Your Buddy Bill Existential Complex

    The baby stealing is cause they think a kid brought up in their culture has a superior upbringing to all others and they think theyre the best at raising kids (and everything else) and that's why they steal babies.
     
  15. Lecic

    Lecic Hard-To-Destroy Reptile

    Florans are flora, Agarans are fungi. That'd be like saying Humans are might just be genetically modified trees. They're completely different types of creatures. Can people please stop thinking mushrooms are just "weird plants" or something to support their "Agarans are the REAL originals the FLORANS are modified" theory?
     
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  16. newtype06

    newtype06 Void-Bound Voyager

    This seems just plain evil to me. Torturing a seemingly innocent Floran.

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    After I saved the Floran, he just stood there while the "bowl" filled with water...and kept asking for pixels. I don't blame him, those damn Agaran probably stole it from the poor fellow.
    [​IMG]


    I also just found this, Agaran infestation of a Apex medical outpost! Sickening!
    [​IMG]
     
    Last edited: Mar 8, 2014
  17. Lecic

    Lecic Hard-To-Destroy Reptile

    See, this is what I'm talking about. Agarans are trapping and torturing Florans in cages of lava. They clearly aren't friendly, at least not to Florans and Hylotl.
     
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  18. CondescendedWow

    CondescendedWow Supernova

    Okay guys, I have cold hard in game proof that the Agarans are using the Apex's technology to infect Florans and reproduce through spores. I was strolling on a planet and I saw an Apex lab (one the medical ones with the red cross at the entrances) This one was completely defaced and ruined and there were Agarans standing by, also guess who was there, the Floran growth pods but with the fungus coming out of it. (also there was a obey poster that was defaced and made big ape look like a clown) My Glitch character said "These are definitely Floran origin but something's amiss". And if you guys don't believe me I can give you the coordinates down below:
    Go right for about 5 or so minutes.
    Sector: Alpha
    Planet biome: Desert
    Planet name: The alpha nu and 436 II a
    X:45716317
    Y:-71972101
     
  19. CondescendedWow

    CondescendedWow Supernova

    Oh hey, I didn't see that... Good on ya. Except I have coordinates :3
     
  20. InsanityPixelated

    InsanityPixelated Existential Complex

    I would check it out; But I have a code of Honor.
    I may not use the coordinates from others.
    But you they will hopefully serve others well!

    Furthermore; The Agarans.

    A Very strange race, as we have all probably agreed on.
    How do they work? Do they REALLY torture and change the Florans?


    A Point I was about to make.
    (I have noted it down in many of my posts on this thread, But never stated it separately.)

    Florans are from the Plantae Kingdom.
    Argarans are from the Fungi Kingdom.

    You cannot turn a Plant, into a Fungi.
    Unless...


    [​IMG]
     
    Last edited: Mar 8, 2014
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