Subject: 71:10/7159 Hivers and K'kree?
T::>Jeff Zeitlin on the K'kree:
::>Yes, the K'kree were caught in the Collapse with no way out. But why
::>shouldn't the Hivers help the K'kree as well? The K'kree, unlike
::>humaniti, weren't responsible for the collapse of hiver civilisation.
::>If the hivers intervene, they can establish a more pliable, less
::>extreme K'kree civilisation to coreward.
I'd concede that this would be possible, except that the K'kree
have been established as being somewhat intolerant of what the
other races that have been spotlighted would consider "normal
social diversity." Should any K'kree pocket empire, especially
one with its center on Kirur, struggle to its feet without outside
aid, it will exhibit all of the characteristics of the original
K'kree culture - in fact, it will, for the most part _be_ the
original K'kree culture. The natural K'kree intolerance of
diversity is such that if an "Old K'kree" empire were to confront
a "K'kree RC", the Old K'kree would be compelled to exterminate
the K'kree RC. Remember what happened to the K'kree planets on
which the Hivers demonstrated their ability to manipulate
cultures. On those planets, they had "perverted" the K'kree into
finding acceptable the consumption of meat sauces on food, and the
use of solitude as recreation - both things that are against the
established fundamental nature of the K'kree. I can't think of
any "aberrations" of human culture that would generate such a
reaction in the rest of humanity.
Remember, the aliens in Traveller are truly _alien_. While some
of their behavior might be characterizable through the use of
comparisons to human behaviors, this is anthropomorphising of the
worst kind. Their motivations are _not_ those of humans, and
they cannot be expected to react to stimuli the way humans do.
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