Slugs and Delvers

[Pathfinder]

So the long and short of it, I think the slugs are the delvers in larval form. When the slugs reach a certain stage, they transfer to the nowhere and remain. I think the "corpses" of the delvers left are actually their hatcheries. The reason for the distortions and such is to protect them from depredation. I think the reason the delvers do not know people are people is because in their larval forms they are usually isolated from general life forms due to hiding in caverns, and they lack the sapience to retain such information during their transition. I think the reason why using them for a hyperdrive does not draw the delvers is because the scream causes to delvers to seek one of their own in pain, rather than lash out at the annoyances that are the insects of the galaxy. That last part is the only loose moving part I feel in my theory. But otherwise, that is what I think is the case. 

[Aon Tia she/her]

I like your theory, I think it is possible. The only thing is if you are right then using slugs as hyper drives should prove even more dangerous than humans because then we are literally torturing the babies of delvers to protect ourselves from delvers!

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2 hours ago, The traveller said:

I like your theory, I think it is possible. The only thing is if you are right then using slugs as hyper drives should prove even more dangerous than humans because then we are literally torturing the babies of delvers to protect ourselves from delvers!

Might not be more dangerous, per se, since it's possible that the initial transfer does something similar to their use as a hyperdrive and they scream when being forced into it too early or the metamorphosis is aborted for some reason or another/just messes up somehow. The delvers would still end up drawn, but they likely wouldn't be as hostile if they thought something happened that happens normally, more just saddened.

[Aon Tia she/her]

4 hours ago, Ookla the Quill said:

Might not be more dangerous, per se, since it's possible that the initial transfer does something similar to their use as a hyperdrive and they scream when being forced into it too early or the metamorphosis is aborted for some reason or another/just messes up somehow. The delvers would still end up drawn, but they likely wouldn't be as hostile if they thought something happened that happens normally, more just saddened.

I disagree

[Pathfinder]

14 hours ago, The traveller said:

I like your theory, I think it is possible. The only thing is if you are right then using slugs as hyper drives should prove even more dangerous than humans because then we are literally torturing the babies of delvers to protect ourselves from delvers!

 

11 hours ago, Ookla the Quill said:

Might not be more dangerous, per se, since it's possible that the initial transfer does something similar to their use as a hyperdrive and they scream when being forced into it too early or the metamorphosis is aborted for some reason or another/just messes up somehow. The delvers would still end up drawn, but they likely wouldn't be as hostile if they thought something happened that happens normally, more just saddened.

I realize that is part of the theory that is stretching, but I think it could still work in so far as the eyes focus on the scream and nothing else right? So maybe they are reaching out to their offspring, trying to figure out what is happening to it but cannot due to the nature of the process or the black box.