A question on Kasatha (SPOILERS for Fires of Creation)


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In Fires of Creation, one area contains the reanimated remains of a tribe of Kasatha that were housed in the habitat dome. An interesting encounter, but one thing bugs me. The book states that the Kasatha starved because the food on Golarion could not be digested by creatures with their biology. This makes me wonder how the other Kasatha survived after the crash. Am I missing something here?

The Exchange

These were the experimental kasatha that weren't told what was happening, the book talks about there being other Kasathas that they "enlightened" or uplifted by giving technology and education to and those were considered ambassadors for their species.

These are the ones that were likely in different parts of the ship that were able to survive the crash and seeded the small communities that exist on Golarion.


Codanous wrote:

These were the experimental kasatha that weren't told what was happening, the book talks about there being other Kasathas that they "enlightened" or uplifted by giving technology and education to and those were considered ambassadors for their species.

These are the ones that were likely in different parts of the ship that were able to survive the crash and seeded the small communities that exist on Golarion.

My issue is that intellectual uplifting would not have changed the Kasatha's biology, so how did they survive on Golarion if Kasatha are not biologically comparable with Golarion's food supplies?

The Exchange

Oh I gotcha, sorry my misunderstanding, it says he brought back"bio-cultures, chemicals and anything else he deemed edible," I imagine he just chose wrong or created a deadly cocktail of chemicals as opposed to traveling further in and grabbing the food goo that's in the mess hall on the engineering deck.

I read it as they grabbed chemicals, likely contained viruses kind of like how the CDC keeps samples of small pox lying around, these testers likely had diseases that they would see the communities with to study reactions and he got ahold of some of those, released them and killed his tribe.

Silver Crusade

The topic title is a huge spoiler, though vague as well.

Also ditto what Condanous said regarding the ship inhabitants and the random chemicals they imbibed.


Codanous wrote:

Oh I gotcha, sorry my misunderstanding, it says he brought back"bio-cultures, chemicals and anything else he deemed edible," I imagine he just chose wrong or created a deadly cocktail of chemicals as opposed to traveling further in and grabbing the food goo that's in the mess hall on the engineering deck.

I read it as they grabbed chemicals, likely contained viruses kind of like how the CDC keeps samples of small pox lying around, these testers likely had diseases that they would see the communities with to study reactions and he got ahold of some of those, released them and killed his tribe.

Ah, that wakes sense then


Troodos wrote:
Codanous wrote:

Oh I gotcha, sorry my misunderstanding, it says he brought back"bio-cultures, chemicals and anything else he deemed edible," I imagine he just chose wrong or created a deadly cocktail of chemicals as opposed to traveling further in and grabbing the food goo that's in the mess hall on the engineering deck.

I read it as they grabbed chemicals, likely contained viruses kind of like how the CDC keeps samples of small pox lying around, these testers likely had diseases that they would see the communities with to study reactions and he got ahold of some of those, released them and killed his tribe.

Ah, that wakes sense then

IT's like drinking a bunch of Numerian Fluids. You have a huge chance of death like one of the characters in the group. Battle one complete, they went to the top of the hill to see it, and the party fighter was like oooo piece of candy. 1d4 negative levels

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