Recycling humans

[RGE]

This news item reminded me of this blurb:

Recycling Tanks

It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and
become one with all the people.

-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Ethics for Tomorrow"

I think I remember someone once arguing that the Hive was too exaggerated to represent communism in SMAC, but I'm not so sure.

(Yep, I'm willfully ignoring that this news item might be untrue, and that whatever political system China has might not qualify as 'real' communism.)

[Frankychan]

Hee hee, this thread concerning this is in the OTF.

And the Hive isn't communism. The Hive is the best faction on Planet.

[Lazerus]

cool making em repay their debt to society

[Koriand'r]

hivers

surprizes me to find that people dont know the chinese do this kind of stuff. or some of them

[molly bloom]

Believer citizens can repay their debt to society even from the afterlife...

http://www.kostnice.cz/

[Kataphraktoi]

i like the blueness on this type more tho
your is brownish to much. although that could be a good look, like rometotalwar.org forums has iirc....

[SynthetGod8]

I'm pretty sure that the Recycling Tanks aren't like Soylent Green or anything gross like that. It's more like this:

The corpse is rendered and seperated into its component parts: organs, skin, bones, brains, undigested food, and so on. Each is used for different products, depending on the need. For the most part, though, and for the purposes of the game, the bodies can be said to be converted into fertalizer for the hydroponic farms, water for drinking (hey, we drink purified water from all kinds of sources), and the organ bank.

ta da

[GeoModder]

Ah yes, transplantation... that's how they keep the faction leaders alive till bio-engineering comes around.

[Mr. President]

Where did you think the skin and tissue for unnecessary tissue engineering procedures came from? Volunteers?

[RGE]

Originally posted by Frankychan
Hee hee, this thread concerning this is in the OTF.

Ah, I didn't think to look anywhere but in the SMAC forums, because I instantly connected this to the chairman's quote regarding recycling tanks. And now that I managed to track down the thread in the OT forum I noticed that SMAC wasn't brought up in it. So...phew!

[Kataphraktoi]

this thread is on topic

its SMAC related and its sci fi
it is the general forum....

[Mart]

Anyone seen "Soylent Green" movie?

[Leon Trotsky]

"A man’s flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe..."

[binTravkin]

Anyone seen "Soylent Green" movie?

I've not. Is it good?

[Mart]

It's on topic... kinda old, but anyone enjoying good sci-fi will probably like it