 February 26, 2012 - 5:01pm | Maybe because he's the twelveth cylon. Seriously, a dralasite blows up like a tick over four to five days post mortem. Eventual the pressure from gas build up causes a spectacular blow out. Long afterward biological residue can be detected. If environmental conditions are right you should be able to detect the remains of a dralasite centuries later. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 26, 2012 - 6:45pm | That quote was from Mission to Alcazzar. In this case, outside with sky shrike eating the flesh I don't think much would be found. |
 February 26, 2012 - 6:47pm | Instead of a skeleton it leaves a large pooling puddle that leaves stains and matter everywhere it falls. Kind of like when you find a varmit that died out in the shed or garage. Its bones and matter had long since been decomposed but there is a nasty spot left on the concrete that just will never come out no matter how much you scrub it. |
February 26, 2012 - 7:25pm | Interesting point AZ, however I wonder if you would find the notorious Captain Nathaniel Flint (dralasite) still clutching his treasure abroad his sunken ship? Dralasites are fascinated by other races horror stories of walking bones |
 February 26, 2012 - 9:50pm | A dralasite horror story probably has something like Grimer from Ghostbusters in it. An amorphous blob floating around. |
February 26, 2012 - 9:57pm | Nice. The son unit and I just started wathching The Real Ghostbusters. Slimer is hilarious! I'll be running Ghostbusters A Frightfully Cheerful Roleplaying Game on G+. |
 February 26, 2012 - 10:06pm | Which of course brings up Dralasite funeral rituals. Since they bud and don't leave a skeleton what kind of funeral rites would they perform? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
February 26, 2012 - 10:07pm | See, he fits perfectly with the dralasite humor and blob shape. |
February 27, 2012 - 4:51am | Dralasite funeral; if nothing else its a time for Ids to be even more philosophical about the meaning g of life. Probably involves understated or even dry humor, real cutting up is reserved for the after party as well as any real debates. The most philosophical Drals at the funeral are probably those who budded from the deceased. Funeral is a celebration of the deceased life while the afterparty is a celebration of life continuing. One has to be careful inviting a dralasite to a human wake. They are prone to asking, "Is he awake yet?" They know its in poor taste but claim its too hard to pass it up. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 27, 2012 - 4:13pm | I imagine that a dralasite funeral is much like jedion mentions. The actual burial is designed for facilitate decomposition. This is done above ground by placing the corpse under heaps of fungal vegetation that consumes and promotes decomposition. What is really gross to see is a dralasite who died in the desert. They end up a hard grey ball shrunk up to nothing. -iggy |
February 27, 2012 - 5:30pm | I imagine that a dralasite funeral is much like jedion mentions. The actual burial is designed for facilitate decomposition. This is done above ground by placing the corpse under heaps of fungal vegetation that consumes and promotes decomposition.
A dralasite mummy. Mummy's are not as rare as one would assume and I would think that a sub- culture would have evolved in dralasite society at some time that practiced mummification.What is really gross to see is a dralasite who died in the desert. They end up a hard grey ball shrunk up to nothing. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 27, 2012 - 6:38pm | What if a pod of dralasites had a mumification process they used on the dead, whereas another pod used the cremation process. Just a thought.. |
February 27, 2012 - 6:39pm | I believe Douglass Adams was a dral. |
 February 28, 2012 - 6:52am | Mmmm. Dral jerky. A sathar delicacy. |
