# How will LAWK impact later stages? **URL:** \ **Category:** Society Stage\ **Created:** [March 11, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247 "2025-03-11T15:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StringShred10D](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@StringShred10D](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/StringShred10D)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/1 "2025-03-11T15:06:32Z")
I’ve been wondering how would LAWK impact later stages. Should there be an additional HAWK (History as we know it) setting also? ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/2 "2025-03-11T15:36:17Z")
What would non-hawk events even be? Types of governments never seen in human history? ---
**Author:** ![StringShred10D](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@StringShred10D](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/StringShred10D)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/3 "2025-03-11T17:16:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/4 "2025-03-11T17:18:15Z")
> [@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… ---
**Author:** ![Poodelicus](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@Poodelicus](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Poodelicus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/5 "2025-03-11T17:35:53Z")
> [@Alternative technologies](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/alternative-technologies/7637): > > Will the game present alternative ways of developing technologies (like steampunk or biopunk), or at least part of them? ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/6 "2025-03-11T17:38:51Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Poodelicus](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@Poodelicus](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Poodelicus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/7 "2025-03-11T17:44:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/8 "2025-03-11T17:46:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AnthropocenianAge](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/anthropocenianage/32/16095_2.png) [@AnthropocenianAge](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/AnthropocenianAge)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/9 "2025-03-11T18:48:37Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/10 "2025-03-11T18:58:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Deathwake](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/deathwake/32/12307_2.png) [@Deathwake](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Deathwake)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/11 "2025-04-20T17:58:01Z")
> [@aah31415](#): > > assuming thermosynthesis works the same in macroscopic stages the best way to do it once you’re macroscopic would actually be to be so large you stretch from hot to cold. If that isn’t possible then yep, it would likely work that way. ---
**Author:** ![aah31415](https://thrivecommunity-cdn.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/aah31415/32/16247_2.png) [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/how-will-lawk-impact-later-stages/8247/12 "2025-04-20T18:00:04Z")
And if not, then you’d have to move between the hot and the cold in an animal-like manner, correct?