All good points, my thoughts:
1. The attribute bonuses remain no matter what form they are in, typically. They're good at hiding these bonuses and "playing dumb" as needed.
2. Detecting Deltas. I will probably need to amend this a bit, but that's why I'm posting stuff, to get feedback. The DNA tests, bloodwork and 48-hour observation period will probably be changed to an every six month evaluation; a chore to be dreaded like the yearly physical and the psych evaluation (perhaps even rolled into that.) The main line of defense will probably be a combination of telepathic scans, the scanner and straight up guesswork.
3. Telepathy and Deltas. I'm going to have to do some tweaking, it seems, since the main point of the Deltas was that telepathy didn't detect anything amiss with them. I like the Camouflaged Mind Block idea, but may need to do something else if they're going to reliably fool IST telepaths (or telepathic contractors in non-IST secure facilities) Basically the thought was that, literally up until they "activated" the Delta sleepers were basically indistinguishable from the people they replaced. They're good at hiding, both as a result of their species evolution as well as the adaptations made to their species by the Ancient Astronauts, and their Delusion is fun because it is so complete that they rationalize the "being an alien infiltrator" into it with surprising mental gymnastics. It can get pretty creepy interrogating them as they rationalize having been "eaten" into their mindset. This breaks down if they can't perform their little almost obsessive-compulsive rituals to maintain their mental cohesion.
4. I LOVE the warning sign. Especially the motto.
On another note, I realized that when I wrote them up I forgot to make clear that the extra time needed for changing shapes is for the FIRST time they assume a new shape (as they need to fully digest the victim) and that switching between memorized forms and their natural form (or elements of their natural form) takes less time (but is still slower than typical for the advantage). So I need to figure the math out on that too.
Thank God the rest of the aliens (with the exceptions of the AA's themselves) should be simpler.
Cheers and thanks again,
Mike
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1. The attribute bonuses remain no matter what form they are in, typically. They're good at hiding these bonuses and "playing dumb" as needed.
2. Detecting Deltas. I will probably need to amend this a bit, but that's why I'm posting stuff, to get feedback. The DNA tests, bloodwork and 48-hour observation period will probably be changed to an every six month evaluation; a chore to be dreaded like the yearly physical and the psych evaluation (perhaps even rolled into that.) The main line of defense will probably be a combination of telepathic scans, the scanner and straight up guesswork.
3. Telepathy and Deltas. I'm going to have to do some tweaking, it seems, since the main point of the Deltas was that telepathy didn't detect anything amiss with them. I like the Camouflaged Mind Block idea, but may need to do something else if they're going to reliably fool IST telepaths (or telepathic contractors in non-IST secure facilities) Basically the thought was that, literally up until they "activated" the Delta sleepers were basically indistinguishable from the people they replaced. They're good at hiding, both as a result of their species evolution as well as the adaptations made to their species by the Ancient Astronauts, and their Delusion is fun because it is so complete that they rationalize the "being an alien infiltrator" into it with surprising mental gymnastics. It can get pretty creepy interrogating them as they rationalize having been "eaten" into their mindset. This breaks down if they can't perform their little almost obsessive-compulsive rituals to maintain their mental cohesion.
4. I LOVE the warning sign. Especially the motto.
On another note, I realized that when I wrote them up I forgot to make clear that the extra time needed for changing shapes is for the FIRST time they assume a new shape (as they need to fully digest the victim) and that switching between memorized forms and their natural form (or elements of their natural form) takes less time (but is still slower than typical for the advantage). So I need to figure the math out on that too.
Thank God the rest of the aliens (with the exceptions of the AA's themselves) should be simpler.
Cheers and thanks again,
Mike
Michael R. Smith (lastfreehuman@gmail.com)
GURPS IST Aleph Wordpress (http://istaleph.wordpress.com/)
GURPS IST Aleph Twitter (http://twitter.com/IstAleph/)
Trek This! Wordpress (http://dthiller.wordpress.com/)
My Blog (http://lastfreehuman.wordpress.com/)