 December 2, 2011 - 11:39pm | Refer to: Vrusk Tai Chi. I like your idea of Vrusk using their antennae to signal emotional meaning. You call it flicking in Vrusk Tai Chi. This is similar to what Alan Dean Foster does with his Thranx but without all the other body and true hand movements. This way it is more Vrusk and not Thranx. Flicking makes total evolutionary sinse because the Vrusk do not have facial movements like Humans, Yazirians, and likely Dralasites do. Funny last comment. I think my initial inspiration (in the back of my subconscious) for Vrusk line dancing was the movie Antz. -iggy |
 July 25, 2012 - 2:58pm | I'm surprised this post had no comments, a book i was reading on human facial expressions got me thinking about what the rest of the core four did to compensate for the loss of band width in communication that at least two of them had based simply on their physical structure. I'm betting that the vrusk compound eye misses very little - would be confirmed by their comprehension ability as well but what senses operate through their antennae? Do they use phermones? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 29, 2012 - 12:03pm | I would say that their antennae sense smells very well and can also pick up vibrations (subtle air movements). -iggy |
July 29, 2012 - 12:29pm | I have a feeling that the antennae are used like humans use facial expressions- not like sign language but perhaps like how tones in Chinese change a word's meaning. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 July 29, 2012 - 7:49pm | So tipping an antenna would be like a wink?  It makes more sense that the antenae are more expressive than an actual language. Humans have non verbal communication, both subtle and not so subtle. But communication does not have to be in a language format. Bees communicate their travels to the hive in a dance. So a combination of things could contribute to their communication and still not be language. |
