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Topic: Why aren't battle thralls fighting the Kohr-Ah? (Read 41932 times)
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Death 999
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Maybe they would have tried to convince the Kzer-Za that it was fair and proper that their battle thralls should fight on their side. Goodness knows that with the Spathi on their side the Kzer-Za could have done a hell of a lot better.
Failing that, they would have developed a ship that would evade detection from the Kzer-Za and secretly aid them in wiping out the Kohr-Ah.
Maybe fire resistant impact resistant micro-crystalline shards in a magnetic bottle - it would look like a natural effect, but it would 'naturally' go after the heavy-metal wielding Kohr-Ah and not the Kzer-Za.
It wouldn't kill any crew, say, but it would weaken their engines, batteries, and so forth. Like being limpeted and having a DOGI stuck in your hull. MUHAHA
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When I said wiping out I didn't mean literally genociding - I meant militarily dominating.
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Culture20
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But that's not what they did in the first doctrinal war (no heirarchy of slaves). Ur-Quan believe in tradition so much that they will not use their slaves in the battle.
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Deathy
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Talk about post-traumatic stress. Two subspecies who literally control-freak on the whole galaxy so that they'll never have to be afraid again. Of course, they'd turn on each other once they were the only two left. Why? Because fear is not rational. There's no "Ah, all better," ever. Once there's no alien stand-in for the "other", they'll find it in each other. Not even slave shielded races will be safe, because after all non-shielded races are gone, the answerless fear will still remain. And once there's no "other" kind of Ur-Quan, they'll find it within their brothers, until there's only one Ur-Quan left, who will die without offspring, probably of simple starvation. Either Ur-Quan path, unless stopped, will end with the destruction of all life in the galaxy.
The Kzer-Za are willing to let their conscience get the better of them and let some species live, in a contained way, but only because they have a proactive (if neurotic) way of dealing with their fear. They can never ever truly address and resolve their fear, because it's not about the rest of the galaxy, it's about something that doesn't exist: the event that caused them suffering, removed from the here and now by millenia. Nothing will "make it go away", because it's already gone.
Of course, maybe they'll get lucky and be stuck on chasing those rascally IDF critters. So long as there's a barbarian at the gates, something more "other" than their brothers, they won't turn.
Or maybe they'll set their sights on other galaxies, leaving this dead galaxy behind, only to get their butts kicked by the Sentient Milleu II and their fleet of Super Sa-Matras.
So while you may not be the universe's only hope, you most likely are this galaxy's last chance.
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Matticus
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Well here's an interesting question: do the Ur-Quan even know about IDF beings? I assume they would have to know at least something about them, either through intelligence and study regarding the Arilou or simply through their own independent studies. Of course, fighting a never ending war might gobble up all the resources it would take to do such experimenting.
But assuming they did know about IDF beings, how do you think they'd handle them? The Orz, for example... where is their homeworld? What happened to the Androsynth, who are supposed to be Ur-Quan battle thralls? If one of their thralls is attacked, would it be considered an attack against the entire hierarchy? If so they'd likely declare war against the Orz. It wouldn't do too much good, I think, because they'd be destroying the Orz *fingers* but not the Orz entity. I wonder if they'd ever figure the Orz out.
Too many questions, too few answers. =)
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« Last Edit: February 12, 2003, 07:17:51 pm by Matticus »
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Duh! But the point remains, why did they agree to fight mano e mano?
by a Kzer-Za captain: