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The '''Slylandro''' are a fictional race of beings featured in the [[sci-fi]] [[Star Control]] [[computer game]] series. |
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{{Infobox Star Control race| |
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race=Slylandro| |
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ship=Probe (from the [[Melnorme]])| |
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homeworld=Beta Corvi| |
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contacts=[[Human (Star Control)|Humans]], [[Precursor (Star Control)|Precursors]], [[Ur-Quan]], [[Faz]], [[Yuli]], [[Drall (Star Control)|Drall]], [[Mael-Num]], [[Melnorme]], [[Taalo]]| |
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quotes="Goodbye, human fluid sack!"| |
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image=Slylandro.png| |
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caption=The Slylandro appeared as incandescent gas bags in Star Control II. |
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The Slylandro are a race of ancient and friendly gas bag people that inhabit a gas giant planet. They are ancient and long-lived enough to have records of contact with the Precursors prior to their disappearance. Because of the fact that they have no methods of physically recording history, long chants of past events have to be memorized in order to preserve the past, and it is this method that is used to recall the Precursors when The Captain enquires about them. |
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Since they cannot create tools, much less spaceships, they purchased a model 2418-B [[Von Neumann probe|self-replicating probe]] from the [[Melnorme]] using data about their own unique biology to pay for it. Their intent was to use the probe to peacefully explore the universe. They made an error programming it, however, setting the priority of the self-replication activity too high (Priority Setting: 999) in an attempt to maximize their return on investment. As a result the probes would seek out alien spacecraft (their highest priority target for exploration), transmit a standard greeting declaring their peaceful intent, and then immediately switch to replication mode instead of trying to collect data. The first stage of this involved attempting to break down the nearest source of raw materials (the alien spacecraft) with a lightning cannon for use in the replication process. While this may be unpleasant to the target ship, the alternative is a little more horrifying (particularly to fledgeling players in the early stages of the game) - the Probe ship is supposed to be armed with a missile battery for defensive purposes. |
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The seemingly schizophrenic probes spread rapidly and terrorize the quadrant until the [[protagonist]] contacts the Slylandro homeworld and explains their mistake to them, at which point the deeply apologetic Slylandro provide a self-destruct code for the probes to make dealing with them easier. They also reprogram returning probes with instructions to transmit the code to any of the misprogrammed probes they encounter. |
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The Slylandro are very shy about their "glowy bits" being seen by the human eye simply because it's their reproductive organs. The standard measurement of time for the Slylandro is the Drahn. |
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==See also== |
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*[[Berserker probe]] |
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[[Category:Star Control races]] |
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