by The Kingpin » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:25 pm
woah woah woah hold it! wrong! Shadow Raptors are NOT raptors which are less mutated than Ultra Raptors. they are just a different pack linked through the leaders' relation to eachother [Midnight being Reaper's older, calmer brother] the term Ultra Raptor is just a genetically mutated raptor which is more powerful, more intelligent, and overall better than the normal ones, but with a mental problem. first of all, the Ultra Raptors plot was originally one i didn't like, which was basically based off my own plan for a pack of super raptors that wanted to kill Fatalis to remove the threat of dominance, since they knew that he would find them eventually and would not be as easy to manipulate as his father if he became leader of the pack. as for Fatalis' ability to kill them relatively easily, that goes back to 2 things: 1) he's part mutant himself, and 2)he's lived almost his whole life alone, making him need alot more skill and cunning in life than normal raptors, which have sharpened his skill to a razor's edge. through his life, he has basically turned himself into an improved ultra raptor, without the mental disorder.
the "mutant gene" is a term made up by LE. the original idea was a polluted lake filled with DNA and remains of modified DNA from other dinos, deemed useless by InGen and dumped there. the lake was next to one of InGen's main labs on site B, which was responsible for all the DNA Research, but, having various DNA that were supposedly useless, they started dumping the waste in that lake and had it fenced off, but was abandoned after the Jurassic Park disaster. eventually, the dinos around the island found it, and were lured to it by a strong scent which was strange to them. a Raptor saw a wounded Spinosaur drink from it, which left and eventually became what is now known as Thrasher. the raptor did likewise, and realised that it felt stronger and was better than it used to be, and soon led it's pack there, setting off the chain which would result in that mutation. pack confrontations occured, and Raptors left, and started new packs, and those packs were taken to the same lake, and so on until it resulted in what is now going on in the RPG. LE's Super evil monster raptors are not part of this story. i honestly dont know what to call them. it's as if they took some test tubes filled with this sort of stuff and drank it straight...and even then it doesn't explain the evil twist to their actions...
true, the Ultra Raptor idea [originally Mutant Raptor until LE hijacked the whole plan story about them and turned it into a black vs. white good and evil war...] was a way to explain the super raptors in JPIII, so that any JPIII fans that joined wouldn't feel upset about us cutting them out completely, and people who did see the raptors as ridiculously intelligent and powerful in coparison to the TLW and JP raptors, had an explanation to work off. it also offered a few interesting characters [Onarus (evil cyborg raptor that in my opinion shouldn't have ever existed because all the rain, plants and weather that faced sorna would've destroyed him long before Darkness did), Darkness (I think), Midnight (which is NOT a true enemy, or completely devil evil like Reaper is, but rather a sadly used good guy who feels pride for his son but is unable to stand against the entire pack alone), Reaper (ok. really wierd red and black raptor that has been turned into the devil's incarnation on earth mixed with some army offical guy through LE's various posts involving him, with the whole "General" and "Lord" gig), Otalp (a misunderstood good guy)].
ladies and Gentlemen, my opinion with the JP3 Raptors in ISS...
"Ah yes, organised chaos. the sign of a clever but ever-busy mind. To the perpetrator, a carefully woven web of belongings and intrigue, but to the bystander? Madness!"
–William Beckett, Lore of Leyuna RPG