How will LAWK impact later stages?

[StringShred10D (QuarkMelter9000)]

I’ve been wondering how would LAWK impact later stages. Should there be an additional HAWK (History as we know it) setting also?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What would non-hawk events even be? Types of governments never seen in human history?

[StringShred10D (QuarkMelter9000)]

I was thinking about technologies and retro-societies that never happened like steampunk,dieselpunk,atom punk. These societies would have a different tech tree than what we had to go through in history.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@StringShred10D

These societies would have a different tech tree than what we had to go through in history.

The question is if these society types wouldn’t just end up returning to a more standard civilization type…

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

Alternative technologies

Will the game present alternative ways of developing technologies (like steampunk or biopunk), or at least part of them?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I guess there still is the field open with LAWK interactions with later stages.
Would you be able to become sapient if you were a fully thermosynthetic critter on a hot planet?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

Thermosynthetic is non-LAWK. But why wouldn’t you? Is it that inefficient? Then again, photosynthesis is suppose to be to inefficient, so if thermosynthesis is comparable, maybe not. Should be easier to mix with predator though.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Well, plants are said to have not evolved brains since it wouldn’t be useful for their lifestyles. Similarly, a fully thermosynthetic critter wouldn’t need all that much brain tissue to move from warm to cold and back, assuming thermosynthesis works the same in macroscopic stages.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

@aah31415

plants are said to have not evolved brains

Unless you consider the whole plant as a brain, which is an idea some plant scientists think and are attempting to study.

But back to the subject of the thread,

@aah31415

Similarly, a fully thermosynthetic critter wouldn’t need all that much brain tissue to move from warm to cold and back

Would an Iron-eating organism need a brain, either, since it just needs to find iron chunks and iron clouds? The player can obvious make it, but would it evolve naturally?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I mean, they’d eventually need to move to a new chunk in some way for the vein they’re feeding off will cease to exist one day.