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sci-fi alien concept
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species with psychic powers that does a hivemind, but only in small groups
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over your life, you develop a close circle of like three to ten individuals
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who collectively form something like a cross between a polycule and a gestalt consciousness
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operating as a team with perfect coordination, or like different limbs of a greater whole being
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I'm into it
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hivemind but it's you and the group chat
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The Enterprise sends down an away team and the aliens are confused that they told Spock something and Kirk doesn’t know it
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"I already told The Enterprise that but it seems to have forgotten"
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"Maybe the Enterprise is too big a group, I'm picking up 300 body-signs."
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wait is the crew really that big
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on the Enterprise, no A, B, C, or D?
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I think so but let me doublecheck
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I have no idea which one
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my knowledge of star trek lore is vanishingly incidental
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Okay, so, depending on the episode, the USS Enterprise had between 203 and 428 crew.
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that's way bigger than I thought
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but that's incidental
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the Bridge Team
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that's how I'd organize a crew if I was this species - one cluster for each department, then one leadership cluster with fingers in each
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Yeah all the Enterprises are big ass ships
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I think the one in TNG has over 1000 people on board
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Though most of them are like civilian scientists and such
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the crew in TNG is 1024
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which is actually tiny compared to the size of the ship
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It’s practically a flying city
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the number of background extras we see in corridor shots imply either a crew more than an order of magnitude bigger, or many decks which are almost entirely empty
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let's move on from this
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the plurk is about micro-hiveminds, not the Enterprise
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(the second option actually makes sense, as they're supposed to have space for huge humanitarian evacuations)
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sorry, moved on
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Is distance a limiting factor
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Or could I hive up with a bunch of internet pals?
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not sure
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either option has potential
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maybe there's special technology for maintaining long-range psychic links
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designed to keep your cluster intact during temporary separations but some clusters use it full time
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Can you change your cluster if you find yourself drifting away from the hive consensus?
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yeah I think cluster jumping is possible but psychologically taxing