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Post by mhopcroft on Jan 9, 2010 21:32:54 GMT
I'm trying to find a technobabble term that makes sense for the scientific practice of exploring "ruins" left behind by more advanced civilizations and reverse-engineering their technology. It figures in an adventure I'm working on where a team of such scientists finds themselves exploring an abandoned (or so they think) Dalek outpost.
Of course, given their propensity for time travel no Dalek outpost is truly abandoned....
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Post by Curufea on Jan 9, 2010 21:53:22 GMT
Retroxeniology?
Xeno-archeological re-engineering?
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Post by Rel Fexive on Jan 10, 2010 0:36:28 GMT
"Archaeology" comes from the Greek of "the discussion of antiquities". I suppose you could try and translate a word like "future" and come up with something similar.
Alternatively, a 'paleotechnologist' or 'technoxenologist' might be just the sort of person you need for a job like that!
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Post by Null and Void on Jan 10, 2010 1:09:43 GMT
In one of my scenarios, I have Data-Archaeologists...
The set up is that these are inhabitants of a Dyson sphere who have technologically regressed and are trying to recover the lost technologies and history of their people.
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Post by The Porter on Jan 10, 2010 22:41:38 GMT
In one of my scenarios, I have Data-Archaeologists... The set up is that these are inhabitants of a Dyson sphere who have technologically regressed and are trying to recover the lost technologies and history of their people. Call them "Brothers"  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz |
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Post by The Porter on Jan 10, 2010 23:21:58 GMT
"Archaeology" comes from the Greek of "the discussion of antiquities". I suppose you could try and translate a word like "future" and come up with something similar. Alternatively, a 'paleotechnologist' or 'technoxenologist' might be just the sort of person you need for a job like that! The root for "about to be" or "things to come" is mello. So you could have a 'mellotechnologist' or a 'mellotechxenologist'.. I think 'Mellotech' is a good name for a company working on these endevours for profit, ala The Company from Aliens. You could also combine archeo or paleo and mello to get the ancient and future... so we have an archeoxeno-mellotechnologist ? You could also make use of the neo- prefix meaning new. PS I really like "technoxenologist". |
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Post by PathfinderAP on Jan 12, 2010 20:57:22 GMT
"Archaeology" comes from the Greek of "the discussion of antiquities". I suppose you could try and translate a word like "future" and come up with something similar. Alternatively, a 'paleotechnologist' or 'technoxenologist' might be just the sort of person you need for a job like that! "Postremotechnoxenologist" ? "Postremotechnologist"? Postremo = future in latin But 'technoxenologist' sounds good |
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Post by Curufea on Jan 12, 2010 22:28:44 GMT
"Postremote" is also a nice name for allies of Faction Paradox  They started/converted a colony of humans called The Remote. |
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