Talk:List of species (The Culture)

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[edit] Changes

IIRC the Homomda are immortal, just like the Iridans are. If not, the Homomda are certainly very long-lived. Also, I do not recall having read that the Homomda space ships are more sophisticated than the Culture's ships, but that it was the other way around. Thirdly, I think more emphasis should be put on how slow the changing process is for Changers. This is NOT Star Trek.--Peter Knutsen 18:18, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

So why do you complain about it, instead of changing it? As for the Homomda starships, I'll point you to the appendices of Consider Phlebas:

"...even if the Culture craft were never quite a match for the better Homomdan ships."

MadMaxDog 06:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I *thought* so. By the time of your complaint, the article about Changers already DID contain info about it taking days. Please read more carefully. MadMaxDog 06:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chelgrian artwork

I have made a sketch of the Chelgrian race, would it be appropriate for me to add it to the wiki as an image next to the race description? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.141.190.205 (talk) 21:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Not really. Regardless of how well-described the Chelgrians are, your sketch would be an interpretation by you, with no validation from Iain Banks, publishers etc. and so couldn't really be seen (by encyclopedic standards) as documenting the information in the books. -Zepheriah (talk) 22:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Mmmmh, I am not quite saying that you are wrong, but you are wrong at least partly. Wikipedia has images of Jesus and Mohammed created (effectively as a fantasy of how these people might have looked) hundreds of years after their deaths. I agree that this case is different, but not absolutely so. Ingolfson (talk) 07:04, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

We also have an existing case in the Culture articles with the images in Orbital (The Culture). In my view, the quality and fidelity of the artwork to the sources would be important, not whether Banks has signed it off. Ingolfson (talk) 07:07, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Well I'll leave a link to the image so you can judge for yourself http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Key125/Chelgriancopycopy.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by K3Y (talk • contribs) 19:18, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Nice enough image - though I thought they were somewhat less erect (upper body more stretched forward than up), but that may just be my imagination from reading it long ago. Ingolfson (talk) 01:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

"though I thought they were somewhat less erect"- Ingolfxon

It's not specified in the book, but I suppose anything not described is left to the reader's interpretation. Which does reflect on what Zepheriah said about any image depicting fictional characters would be souly an interpretation by the artist, but on the other hand does it Have to be validated by the author? I've looked around and can find no rule on wikipedia to that effect.K3Y (talk) 13:17, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

It does not have to be validated, and in the wide majority of cases, even if you can reach the author, he would not validate it. I won't oppose you adding the image, but others may be of a different opinion. Cheers. Ingolfson (talk) 08:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Humans?

Are the people of the Culture human or humanoid? I know the Culture is much older than Earth civilizations. This should be cleared up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.215.129.136 (talk) 12:54, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

They are pan-human, as described in The Culture article by now. See Matter (novel). Ingolfson (talk) 07:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)