Ford looks down at the hand on his shoulder and then back at the man who just drank a lot of straight whiskey very quickly. His expression goes distinctly owlish.]
As far as I'm aware, changes upon arrival mainly hit those who weren't human before intake. Several among our number used to be of another species altogether and were given human bodies on arrival.
[He's met several aliens that he got to be really unhappy about not being able to meet as aliens. That's one of the reasons he's not too jazzed about the idea of Jheselbraum showing up here. Sure, he'd have a huge crush on her regardless, but if she's not ten feet tall with seven eyes and no nose then what's really the point?]
Then there's removal of weapons, which you already know about-- this covers built-in bionic enhancements; I know a man with a metal arm that functions as an arm but not much else, when it used to have extra capabilities.
[It made arm-wrestling that man a lot less of a challenge than it could have been, which was sad.]
Occasionally a few things slip through; oddly-colored eyes, sharp teeth, but that tends to be it. It's a defense mechanism, a self-regulation algorithm the universe uses so that newcomers don't violate the local laws of normalcy. Many universes have them; it's far better to assimilate while on vacation than find yourself as, say, a 3D being in a 2D world. I would not like to repeat that experience.
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Ford looks down at the hand on his shoulder and then back at the man who just drank a lot of straight whiskey very quickly. His expression goes distinctly owlish.]
As far as I'm aware, changes upon arrival mainly hit those who weren't human before intake. Several among our number used to be of another species altogether and were given human bodies on arrival.
[He's met several aliens that he got to be really unhappy about not being able to meet as aliens. That's one of the reasons he's not too jazzed about the idea of Jheselbraum showing up here. Sure, he'd have a huge crush on her regardless, but if she's not ten feet tall with seven eyes and no nose then what's really the point?]
Then there's removal of weapons, which you already know about-- this covers built-in bionic enhancements; I know a man with a metal arm that functions as an arm but not much else, when it used to have extra capabilities.
[It made arm-wrestling that man a lot less of a challenge than it could have been, which was sad.]
Occasionally a few things slip through; oddly-colored eyes, sharp teeth, but that tends to be it. It's a defense mechanism, a self-regulation algorithm the universe uses so that newcomers don't violate the local laws of normalcy. Many universes have them; it's far better to assimilate while on vacation than find yourself as, say, a 3D being in a 2D world. I would not like to repeat that experience.