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Just bought the Starship Spotter guide (Aus $42.35, in case your wondering) and noticed that it states that the 8472 bioship has the ability to change shape. Now I can't remeber but was this shown in Scorpian? I do know that some people think that there are two different classes of bioships so i'm thinking not.
Was this just something for the book or was a test made of a transforamtion sequence and then dummped due to time or money constraints?
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Take a close look at the ship when it's first spotted in "Scorpion, Part I." It's mainly a long, thin rod without the wings. Then, when the ship powers up, the wings extend for flight.
Also, in "Part II" you can see the ship rippling in a way when it fires. (Reminded me of the effect of the Shadow "spitfire" fighters from B5.)
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They are not only featured in it, they have missions centered around them and they talk in creepy voices like "evoooolving"
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A2? Yes. You could say so. The morphing problem caused some headache in A1 (in other words: not possible), but since the required parts are not hardcoded anymore, you can do the following: There's a mother, the main base. It evolves passive and active embryos. The passives later develop - morph - into other structures like biomatter collectors and spacerift-portal-things and such stuff while the actives become units like scouts and destroyers. Other than the Federation the 8472-units look pretty good. But there are still guys in the community who can do it much better. Any questions, ask.
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Also: when they blew up that Borg planet, the ship in the center of their fancy energy beam had its arms pushed forward and extended out. It could have been a different ship, or it could have changed its shape.
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Ya know... I wish I'd thought of that. Instead of being a different ship, that "planetkiller" is probably the same kind of ship in a different shape!
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The 8472 Bioships did indeed have wings that could extend or fold in.
The ship at the center of the planet killing beam was a slight model variation and we called it the 'focusing' ship, since it took all the energies from the other ships' beams and focused it into a large burst (a la Death Star).
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