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Topic: The Patented Captain Survival System (Read 9050 times)
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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Still, a decent soldier must be capable of cooperating. Anyway, who else would it be?
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Before the Dnyarri messed with their genes the BROWN Ur-quan couldn't stand each other, and flew in scout ships, probably with one crew per ship.
We know that the Kzer-za still have one member of the species per ship.
As for the Kohr-ah, as it was said, they can't have sentient slaves.
Also, the crew is green and effected by Syreen song, so it's not drones. I guess we're left with more Kohr-ah. As Scott said, the Dnyarri had a good reason to change them so they can live together- while scientists and leaders don't need to get along, workers and warriors tend to work in groups.
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Scott
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Yes. And it works on Slylandro Probes. But that's just game balance right there. 
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Except for the fact that the Dnyarri haven't been around for 22,000 years and the Kzer-Za seem to have no qualms with fulfilling the expansionist battle conquering niche in the aftermath of the Dnyarri slave empire.
So...? It still makes sense to me.
Reasoning: immediately after the Dnyarri empire fell and the two Ur-Quan sub-species parted ways, the Kohr-Ah were far more numerous than the Kzer-Za, having been the workers and soldiers of the slave empire. They could comfortably afford stuffing 42 of themselves on board of each ship, and still have a large, powerful armada.
The Kzer-Za, previously the scientists and bureaucrats, were comparatively few in number. They realized that in order for their Path of Now and Forever to be fulfilled - and to ensure that the next Doctrinal War would be won as well - they would have to expand their forces as humanly caterpillarly possible. Solution? Enslave a race. If enslaved race = battle thrall, have it serve on Dreadnoughts as slave crew. Spread actual Kzer-Za between ships as thinly as possible. Repeat until (number of Kzer-Za per Dreadnought = 1) AND (overall strength = stupendously powerful).
Since it's safe to assume that the birth-rates of the two sub-species are similar, if not identical, it's easy to derive that their numbers would still be in the same proportion to each other even after 20,000 years.
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The population difference is entirely possible, but it's also pure theorycraft. And no, the Ur-Quan background is just a field of stars. I don't see a slave pit at all.
That's it, if I read through one more topic discussing things about the Ur-Quan even the developers haven't decided on, my head is going to fall off. No more. 
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In any such society, and especially in a ruthless expansionist slave-empire, the number of workers and soldiers needed ( = Kohr-Ah) would be far greater than the number of scientists and administrators ( = Kzer-Za).
