On Sat, 23 Apr 1994, Dane Johnson wrote:
>I dunno if you've seen Smash & Grab yet....
Nope. I don't own Path of Tears. From what I've heard, it doesn't
*sound* like I'll be buying it either. Just not useful for the stuff
I do. (Classic Trav setting mostly)
>...And you thought you were kidding with the KFC, didn't you?
>
><Shudder>
Actually, no, I wasn't kidding. It started out as a serious attempt
to figure out the K'kree in the new era. IMHO, from the Hiver point
of view, manipulating their long term, diametrically opposed enemy: the
K'kree would be a MUCH higher priority than would be helping out the
humans who the Hivers *know* they can get along with.
They know that the K'kree will eventually regain space flight, and
so they now have a golden opportunity to get their tentacles into
controlling the Centaurs toward something more constructive than what
they were like before. Remember, the K'kree have *exterminated* several
sentient species before *just* because they ate meat! This is something
the Hivers *must* stop because of their 'mothering' instinct. It is
also diametrically opposed to the way the Hive Confederation worked.
I think that manipulating them to follow the Hiver way would be the
highest priority that the Hivers would have. I also think that the
fanatically militant and utterly pitiless K'kree would take their mission
*deadly* seriously. I can't see even the Hivers breeding the fanaticism
out of the K'kree in only a few years.
Thus, we get the KFC (or something very similar to it.)
I admit that I started playing up the parody aspect of it (Oh no!
a KFC super bucket!) But if you take that away, it's all quite serious.
Smashing asteroids into planets is just the sort of thing the K'kree
woud do (and have done) in the past.
Scott 2G Kellogg