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Hiver early mass communication?

J.C.D.

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I kind of like the hivers and find them interesting, but I have a serious question about them and their early civillization.

Specifically, how did they communicate on a large scale in early days when hivers have no voices?

Human sound based communication is good as it allows one to adress many, and you can listen while looking at somethign else, walking,, working, etc.

Now, without voices how did hivers communicate? I understand there's touching, writing and sign language, but how did they communicate in over a large area or to many at once? Primitive billboards? Writng on mountainsides? I'm not sure how their communication facillitated large scale communication and public adress.

I wonder, could the early hivers have developed something like primitive musical instruments, or at least noisemakers, they used to sound alarms, call groups together, etc. Could early hivers have developed a sort of big steam organ or something to communicate over an area, and developed for all intents a musical language?

I'm just curious and trying to understand the game, including a race I think is cool from what I know so far.

BTW, while I'm asking about alien races, someone said that aslan were like TNG klingons in lion costumes/ How true or false is that?
 
Gigantic public billboards?

regardless.... it was most likely a visual system, not audio.

Gotta think creative here. Remember the American Indians? they umm did inter-tribal communications with smoke signals over long distances. So the Hivers had to have been creative with something as a form of early communication.


BTW, while I'm asking about alien races, someone said that aslan were like TNG klingons in lion costumes/ How true or false is that?
The Aslan are Aslan. The Klingons are Klingons. And always remember that in EVERY SINGLE SCIFI universe, there is always one "honorable warrior race". Yeah it's absolutely cliche. But, oh well...
 
At lower TLs, books and newspapers, at things like semaphore/heliograph/etc. Then telegraph and fax (possible at the same TL). Probably skip radio and go straight to TV.
 
Mass disemination of infomation thru vison is pretty close to the same tech level as for sound in fact in some ways ealier. Photography and reproductions of photography predates any sort of recoreded sound technology. If it is a alien culture then they might find ways to get infomation accross we have nto thought of yet. The signal fire mirrors or it could be that there is a complex sign language and there is a big light projecting the shadow of the speaker to a screen like a cloth that everyone can see them do the shadow dance to get accross information.
 
Dude, the idea of the giant shadow projection allowing huge sign language is one I hadn't thought of. Impressively good idea.

So no one thinks the hivers may have developed a musical language and played it on a large instrument then? Oh well, it was just an idea.
 
Envision a network of multisided lighthouses with shutters and a multiocular(?) spotting device on each side. Information could be transmitted to specific stations or disseminated in settlements by a large single shuttered lantern. Later a radio transmitter with an audio speaker could transmit the “beeps” of the code system.
 
Originally posted by Parmasson:
Later a radio transmitter with an audio speaker could transmit the “beeps” of the code system.
Supplemented by interpretive dance.
 
Specifically, how did they communicate on a large scale in early days when hivers have no voices?
with humans books were the first mass media. even when most people couldn't read, books were used to communicate ideas over quite long distances especially within communities of concern such as philosophy or astronomy. when reading became more widespread newspapers were the first regular mass media long before radio or tv.

not really a problem.
 
the Hivers would never tell us of their dirty little secret.....

....... that sock puppets was the first Hiver "visual art" ever invented
 
Yes tink they would. My Hiver in the LARP has got this to say...

"The need for early communication was not as high a priority, since most Federation Nests consisted of a few hundred individuals, in one tunnel system. Like most of the Federation, I make visual gesture signals with one of my hands, and motion readers transfer this into a vocally translatable form and turned into speech by my chest computer.

These signals are derived directly from early underground communications in even total darkness, for we have an infrared thermal visual capability.

Long Distance Communications first form was the Embassy, still an important factor in our culture to this day. These small bands of explorers would cover thousands of kilometers in the endeavor of nest to nest communication, and expanding social mating practices.

Within a few short years larvae became a problem along with the deadly pollution of our industrial age. The works of M. Eneri, are classics among us. He saved us."
 
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