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| Re: This is my point, exactly. *CH* *SP* | |
| Posted By: scarab | Date: 11/17/07 6:13 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: This is my point, exactly. *CH* *SP* (Louis Wu) : No. I was told by my wife that pretty nasty things would happen to me if I : bought anything for myself within three weeks of my birthday, so because : Bungie (or maybe Tor) decided to release this at the end of October, I : have to wait another week to read it. Can't you fish for a hint to see if she's already bought it? I suppose that someone somewhere will have bought you it. You'll just have to mooch round CH threads looking for tidbits. :-) Amazon came up trumps for me. They had estimated Dec 3rd delivery but I got it tuesday(?). It has answers to the, 'why did the Prophets want the humans dead?' question, and the answer to another contentious issue. Though you must have been spoiled by reading this thread. No mention of Forerunner origins so there is scope for another book. Its official, the Grunts breathe methane and can't breathe 02. The sniffing Grunt from the start of AotCR was using his mask's olfactory membranes. (how does that work?*) <- The Grunts can disable them to avoid the whiff of Kig-Yar poop. Pity that, I liked the idea that they would breathe 02 and use the methane as a sort of nitrous-oxide boost. It would explain why they were hyper during combat and maybe why they were sleepy in-between. If they breathe methane then the pillars of fire on their homeworld must be from jets of 02 burning the methane atmosphere. But if Grunts can't breathe air... do they die in-game if you shoot off their tanks and leave them for ten minutes? I must remember to do the experiment. I know that Ghost drivers don't die immediately when you shoot off the exposed tank. * The membranes could be acting like an epithelial tissue that actively transports small air-filled vesicles from the outside to the inside. Or maybe they are moist and volitile chemicals dissolve on the outer surface and the liquid is transported in vesicles to the other side. The volitiles evaporate and are carried to the Grunt's nose.
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