User:Sam999

Shee

The shee are some of the most successful scientists that can be found, seemingly through luck rather than judgement. Their naivete about the world around them is extraordinary - rarely would they consider the consequences of an action in advance of trying it. These are the sort of people who'd drop one chemical compound into another thinking "hey, I wonder what this will do." Whereas normal universal laws of bad fortune would result in an explosion, a Shee performing the same experiment is more likely to discover how to turn fresh air into used, non-sequentially serial numbered 100 credit chips.

This amazing ability to stumble blindly into accidental success, together with the ridiculous situations this kind of approach to life has resulted in, has led the Shee through a high speed development of the sort of tech it normely take a race thousands of years to create and sent them off into the world at large.

The Shee are born inventors, and as such share many of the typical traits of such people. They over-engineer everything - they'd happily spend weeks researching a way of saving time, even though doing the task in the first place might have only taken five minutes. This follows the "automobile short-cut" theory to life, in that any short-cut taken on roads invariably takes longer than if you'd stuck with the bad traffic, but good grief, does it feel good to try it. A typical example of this would be dealing with short sightedness. This problem can be solved using glasses or contact lenses. The Shee would have discovered DNA, found the errant genes and fixed them. Indeed, this is precisely what happened - there are no opticians amoung the shee.

Technologically, the Shee's creations look and feel like a Jules Verne illustrated novel - a mixture of tubes, escaping steam and pure brute force mixed with incredibly advanced biotech components. The Shee used their early discovery of DNA to create animals and plants designed to improve the quality of their lives and discovered the wheel hundreds of years after curing every single genetic error in their expansive genome.**

The Shee are not good planners. They tend to plan by execution - they have a great idea, try it and see what happens. On Earth, they'd happily fly from Heathrow to San Francisco on the off chance that a friend would be at home that evening for a drink. It would never cross their minds to phone first just to be sure, as after all - it is a long way to go only to find that they're out.

As a final reference to the Shee's personality, here is a text transcript of a recorded conversation between two Shee.

"I say, old chap, I'm on fire." "Goodness gracious, I expect that hurts. I'll design a device to pump water from the eastern ocean up to here. You get the kettle on." "Splendid. Sugar, Milk?"''