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Talk:Druuge

2007-03-14T17:08:30Z

Spektrowski:

I don't have the energy to edit this, but to say that the Druuge have absolutely no conception of love or honor or loyalty is going a bit far -- they do seem to have such concepts in their culture, just distorted by their general distrust of altruism. There is a great deal of stuff in the game about the Druuge's early history and the details of their culture that could go here.

That can very well be. I just made a quick report based on my view of the Druuge. There may well be compassionate druuge just as there are VUX who are not disgusted by humans. Alien Races do usually consist of different inviduals, like mankind. At least that's my view.

However I imagine these individuals have a very hard time in the general druuge society. They might be attented to furnace duty as soon as "the cat's out of the bag". Druuge themselves said that they acknowledge their greed and retchedness and revel in it.

You're welcomed to do a more deep report on the Druuge. I can't cause my general skills in english limit me.

--[[User:Dingus|Dingus]] 14:55, 16 Oct 2004 (CEST)

I just wnated to share one opinion, not related to the article in anyway.

I think the Druuge represent a nightmarish vision of mankind in some possible future, if the big corporations would take over this world. It is a warning of what we may become.

:''<_Stilgar> <MusicSK> Q: Do the Druuge in any way represent TSR/Accolade?<br>
:<Fwiffo> The Druuge are the worst aspects of my negotiations with TSR and EA. The Druuge are also somewhere inside me too.''
:-- [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] 15:09, 4 Nov 2004 (CET)

== Question ==

The druuge say that they encountered the Kohr Ah but came up with a "brilliant plan" that thrawrted the attack. Is this a hint that the druuge goaded them into starting the doctrinal conflict? It makes sense when you consider that being neither a fallow slave, nor a battle thrall species would interest the druuge and thusly they might feel they were getting rid of 2 problems.

:Actually it's more likely a reference to them (the Druuge) tricking the Kohr-Ah into attacking the Burvixese. According to the Melnorme:
:"The Druuge were largely responsible for the Kohr-Ah's finding the Burvixese. You see, the Burvixese were in long-distance HyperWave contact with a race known simply as the Gg. For decades the Gg and the Burvixese traded much valuable information until the Gg came under attack by an invading race who you may know as the Kohr-Ah. The Gg warned the Burvixese that the Kohr-Ah located races by their HyperWave transmissions and that they had already discovered the radiations from the Druuge. When the Burvixese were kind enough to warn the Druuge that a hostile alien race was homing in on their HyperWave's radiations, the Druuge shut down all their transmitters and erected a powerful HyperWave beacon on the surface of the Burvixese moon. The Kohr-Ah changed course, attacked the poor Burvixese and sadly, destroyed them all."
:The original doctrinal conflict began near ~20000 years ago and only restarted because the two Ur-Quan sub-species met up again. Also, the Kohr-Ah were in the process of attacking the Utwig when they re-encountered the Kzer-Za and recommenced the doctrinal conflict in this region of the galaxy. --[[User:Fyzixfighter|Fyzixfighter]] 02:03, 7 Dec 2005 (CET)

== Value of Trader wreck ==

The value of a Melnorme Trade wreck is stated as 450 RU. I'm wondering how you can know this given that it appears to be impossible to enter conflict with and therefore destroy and salvage them. Is there something I missed in the game?

:The first time you meet them you can attack them without talking to them first, or piss them off by saying "`Trade' is for the weak. We TAKE what we want!". — [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] 15:36, 10 August 2006 (CEST)

== Name origins ==

The name "Druuge" is pronounced almost exactly like an ancient Persian word "druj" - a term of the Zoroastrian religion that literally translates as "lies" and describes one of evil demons ("daevas"). Can there be any possible relation?

Talk:Star Control II facts

2007-01-17T09:37:39Z

Spektrowski:

Is there an exact number of Ur-Quan and Kohr-Ah ships around the Sa-Matra mentioned somewhere in the code, and is that possible to actually wipe out the entire ring of ships?

And another question... when the Ur-Quan learn from the Captain that he was under a psychic compulsion by the Dnyarri, they say that they're going to escalate the war against the Kohr-Ah. Does this modify the time of Kohr-Ah victory?

Talk:Star Control II facts

2007-01-14T13:20:33Z

Spektrowski:

Is there an exact number of Ur-Quan and Kohr-Ah ships around the Sa-Matra mentioned somewhere in the code, and is that possible to actually wipe out the entire ring of ships?

Talk:Burvixese

2007-01-09T13:56:37Z

Spektrowski:

Where did you find the information about the Burvixese being 'Turtle-Like?'s.

:I'm not the author of this piece of information, but the SC2 resource guide does say: "The Burvixese race evolved on the planet Arcturus 1, progressing from turtle-like swamp dwellers to a benevolent, highly tech-nological society in just over fifteen million Earth years." - [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] 04:09, 10 Apr 2005 (CEST)

It's interesting - by which means did the Burvixese communicate. If they had some kind of extremely powerful Hyperwave casters, with enough power for interplanetary connections - why then the Kohr-Ah didn't notice their communications (with Gg, for instance) before the Druuges' communications? Even if the Druuge had impressive casters set up for promotional reasons, their broadcasts weren't likely to completely hide a very strong Hyperwave trail, even if the Burvixese kept the strictest possibly radio silence right after receiving Gg's warning and passing it to the Druuge.<br>
Another possibility is that they have an innate ability of Hyperwave speaking similar to Chenjesu, though it seems fantastic, given the literally astronomical distances.<br>
The last possibility is that their Hyperwave hardware was much more advanced than anyone else's in the galaxy, the difference between their gadgets and common 'Casters being similar to one between a dial-up modem and an ADSL modem: both are plugged into same telephone lines, but the latter doesn't make the line busy and works much faster. So maybe they were able to communicate in the Hyperwave format, but their signal travelled in a different way and was harder to intercept by conventional means that the Kohr-Ah used to track down their prey.