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-Editor's Notes: FIXME
+//(Note: This article concerns the Skiltaire alien species as it exists in the Furscape universe.  While we do have some Skiltaire characters on the MUCK, requests for new Skiltaire characters are not being approved at this time. - Hagalaz)//
-[[verboten tech|Psionic ability]] does not currently fall within the hard sci-fi theme of Furscape. This entry is included more for historical purposes, and items that no longer apply and/or have been retconned appear in "strikeout" font. Your mileage may vary. - Hagalaz
-This page needs to be edited to bring it into more conformance with Furscape's theme, and also to add some notes about Skiltaire history in recom space, particularly their colonization attempt on [[Planet Amazon]].  -- Zobeid
 ====== Skiltaire ======
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 ====== History ======
-//OOC Note: This concerns the history of the Skiltaire as related to Furscape MUCK. Anything happening outside of the context of the MUCK is considered non-canon for historical purposes. - H.//
+//(Note: This concerns the history of the Skiltaire as related to Furscape MUCK. Anything happening outside of the context of the MUCK is considered non-canon for historical purposes. - Hagalaz.)//
 In 2203, a colony ship of unknown configuration arrived in Sol System.  Tensions ran high at first, but peaceful contact was eventually established.
-No one, including the Skiltaire crew, knows where they or their originated, only that they have been travelling "for a very long, long time".  Attempts to examine the ship itself reveal technology that is equivalent to but incompatible with current recom technology, and offering no clear advantages or disadvantages compared to existing tech (to quote an SDF engineer, "It's just //different//!").
+None of the Skiltaire crew could explain where they or their ship had originated, only that they had been travelling "for a very long, long time".  Attempts to examine the ship itself revealed technology that was equivalent to but incompatible with existing recom technology, and offered no clear advantages or disadvantages compared to existing tech (an SDF engineer was quoted as saying, "It's just //different//!").
-After negotation between the Skiltaire and various colonial governments, an agreemment is struck allowing the Skiltaire to establish a colony on the largely-undeveloped [[Planet Amazon]]. While the Skiltaire are generally pleased with having their own place to explore and live, the combination of predatory animals and hostile vegetation prove to be a challenge even for them, and some Skiltaire opt to emigrate to more civilized places.
+After a period of negotation between the Skiltaire and various planetary governments, an agreemment was struck allowing the Skiltaire to establish a colony on the largely-undeveloped [[Planet Amazon]]. While the Skiltaire were generally pleased with having their own place to explore and live, the combination of predatory animals and hostile vegetation proved to be a challenge even for them, and some Skiltaire opted to emigrate to more civilized places.
-After struggling to create a viable colony on Amazon, in 2209 the Skiltaire decide to pack everything up and move on.  They strip all items of value and depart into deep space, searching for a planet that they consider more suitable.  However, some Skiltaire have stayed behind and have chosen to integrate into recom society.
+After struggling to create a viable colony on Amazon, in 2209 the Skiltaire decided to pack everything up and move on.  They stripped all items of value and departed into deep space, searching for a planet that they considered more suitable.  However, some Skiltaire stayed behind, choosing to integrate into recom society.
-<del>The origin and distribution of Skiltaire is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe -- they are found "native" to a lot of worlds with compatible atmospheres and biologies, with no clue as to how they got there. No world of origin has ever been found. The going theory is they were seeded by the Ancients or an other unknown forerunner race for unknown reasons.</del>
+====== Society ======
-<del>When first encountered on Merlino's World, Skiltaire were believed to be animals, a local carnivore/pouncer on that world. They had no discernable society other than small hunting packs and/or family groups, no complex language, no technology, nothing to indicate they were more than "smart animals".</del>
+'Urban Skiltaire': These are Skiltaire who have integrated into recom society. Skiltaire have no specific culture of their own; instead, they adopt the culture they are raised in, with some exceptions and unique schticks.
-<del>For decades afterwards, Skiltaire were hunted for their colorful pelts. Live-capture specimens were found to be very "domesticated" and were kept as pets, being very smart and friendly; their popularity grew rapidly, heading off any idea of using them in fur-farming. Before long, "tame" Skiltaire had legal status as LOC's ("lower-order companions", aka "Super-pets"), legally intermediate between animals and people.</del>
-<del>Then the Scout Service started finding Skiltaire on world after world. Pet Skiltaire, now available for study, began to learn to talk, slowly picking up complex human language. It became more and more apparent that these "smart animals" were actually a minor intelligent race. There followed a twenty-year struggle to get them recognized as such, with the "Skiltaire Alliance" (the main pro-Skiltaire organization) fighting uphill first against inertia, then against the fear that once recognized, the Skiltaire would demand repatriations for their former treatment. Legal infighting among pro-Skiltaire activists themselves probably stretched the fight out twice as long as it would normally have taken. Finally Scout Service xenologists (with "Fanta", an aquatic female from their xeno-study lab who was the first Skiltaire to become fluent in human language) weighed in with the deciding evidence and clout.</del>
-<del>Since then, Skiltaire have been a small but visible presence in interstellar society. "Urban" Skiltaire (descendants of "tame" Skiltaire) have adapted and adopted human society, becoming a secondary "sidekick" race; their quick adaptation and social personalities have led to speculation that "they were out there just waiting for us."</del>
-====== Society & Demographics ======
-<del>Wild Skiltaire</del>
-<del>These are Skiltaire as first encountered . In the wild, Skiltaire form small "packs" analogous to hunter-gatherer tribes, based around small family groups of mated pairs and their kits. Larger organized groups, governments, technology, and organized warfare (other than cooperative defense against top predators or territorial skirmishes) never developed. Neither did complex language; their natural telempathy and a series of simple "call" sounds served adequately for communication.</del>
-Urban Skiltaire <del>(formerly "tame Skiltaire")</del>
-These are Skiltaire who have integrated into recom society. Skiltaire have no specific culture of their own; instead, they adopt the culture they are raised in, with some exceptions and unique schticks.
-<del>====== Origins ======</del>
-<del>Currently, to my knowledge, there are two main theories to how the Skiltaire have been found on several unrelated planets.</del>
+'Wild Skiltaire': These were the Skiltaire who attempted to colonize Planet Amazon. They were formed into loose communities for self-defense and sharing of resources.  As of this date, no wild Skiltaire are believed to remain in Known Space, the last of them either having departed on their colony ship or having assimilated into recom society.
-<del>Theory #1
-They have the ability to boost their psionic powers in conjunction with others of their kinds to boost the distance and strength of their psionic abilities. This allowing them to reach across space and influence a race on a distant planet and change the genetics of their young so they give birth to Skiltaire.</del>
-<del>My thoughts on this are a) there is good proof that Skiltaire can “gestalt” with one another and boost their ranges enormously… BUT don’t you think a race would be alerted to something if their females started popping out Skiltaire instead of their own young. And if this were true it would also lead to the end of that race as they stopped reproducing their own kind and produced Skiltaire. I do not believe this to be true as the Skiltaire are as pacifistic as they come, only harming something else in self defense or hunting for food.</del>
-<del>Theory #2
-This seems to be by far the more probable of them. There is a theory that the Skiltaire are an artificially created race of beings created by a superior “Precursor” race as communicators of some type, and that the “over-race” found them to be good and spread them out on several planets to grow naturally. Sort of the “Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket” outlook.</del>
-<del>My thoughts on this are a good probability. Their body structure seems to be completely unique to the environments they are found in, as are their electrogenerative abilities as well as their extreme psionic abilities. They also communicate on a very basic level of images and feelings. These being a quite universal language, as it doesn’t rely on language, sight, sound, or touch. Which can vary greatly between races</del>.
 ====== Credits ======
 The Skiltaire species is © Sy of Furscape (Mark Merlino). It was introduced in Furscape by Firepaws and others with the original artist's permission, then recently Sy joined Furscape himself.