Grey Marks
Feb08
on 2019-02-08
at 03:58
The making a servant race thing does seem to backfire…
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Peach
Ixy, I really don’t understand your worry. It’s us humans they’ve been hunting for food.
Ixil
You don’t understand, we know the truth about their origin. We still haven’t recovered from when they-
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Ixil
Oh, wait, I can’t tell you or they’d really go insane on you. We wouldn’t want-
Gina
You actually created them. Held their women on your original planet to control them. They found the planet with the cloning system. Exterminated the existing population. Attacked your worlds, killing over 95% of your population and all of the Saurian women and children. Since then you live on your remaining ships. They’ve since wiped out nearly every burgeoning civilization of this part of The Galaxy. And only The Orions have held them at bay for the last few centuries. Fortunately all of their tech is stolen and breaks down over time.
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Peach
OK, that’s news.
Ixil
And now, I'm seriously scared.
Gina
You forget how many dead worlds I’ve had to walk.
Ixy, I really don’t understand your worry. It’s us humans they’ve been hunting for food.
Ixil
You don’t understand, we know the truth about their origin. We still haven’t recovered from when they-
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Ixil
Oh, wait, I can’t tell you or they’d really go insane on you. We wouldn’t want-
Gina
You actually created them. Held their women on your original planet to control them. They found the planet with the cloning system. Exterminated the existing population. Attacked your worlds, killing over 95% of your population and all of the Saurian women and children. Since then you live on your remaining ships. They’ve since wiped out nearly every burgeoning civilization of this part of The Galaxy. And only The Orions have held them at bay for the last few centuries. Fortunately all of their tech is stolen and breaks down over time.
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Peach
OK, that’s news.
Ixil
And now, I'm seriously scared.
Gina
You forget how many dead worlds I’ve had to walk.
Observation, research, and literal worlds of data matter.
Just look at all the trouble we have with domestic cats. Seriously, pay attention. Because you know, right this very moment, there is some brilliant, socially awkward person trying to find a way to create a servant race of catgirls. How do you think that is going to turn out?
Sexy for the brilliant, awkward one? If he times it right….
I am NOT socially awkward person, and “Clawdia” is doing fine.
[al mar]
Perhaps you’re familiar with the story of C’mell … ?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Lost_C%27Mell]
The only problem with that thought is that the concept of cat and servent don’t seem to go together that well. It would be a good way to mental breakdown.
Why would this info make the Saurians insane (or “more so”)?
Sounds to me like “Ixy” is just trying to cover his @$$.
I’m surprised that he doesn’t do a better job of improvising under pressure.
Now I’m wondering, just exactly what (&/or WHO) did the Greys use, as “ingredients”, to create the Saurians … ?
… & WHY?
Depends if the name ‘Saurian’ is accurately descriptive, and means the same as we think it does, in which case, maybe the Saurian’s were created from K’Sel
I don’t know that I’d necessarily jump to that conclusion, Guesticus.
Plenty of other reptilian species, even just on Earth, for the Greys to have cobbled together the Saurian race from, aside from the K’Sel, who are evolved from one single dinosaur species, isolated and uplifted by the Dilmun several million years ago.
Presumably the Saurians are much more recent.
Specifically, he’s concerned the Saurians would seek revenge for telling the Orions (whom they’ve been in open war with for centuries) their secret origin (and any weaknessess or strategies to finally wipe them out which might be derived from that information.)
Interesting thought. The Orions have been holding the Saurians at bay. While routinely visiting Earth not just to increase genetic diversity, but because in certain (Possibly quite a few) areas, Earth has better Tech than the Dilmun (Ptui!) had.
Er, not necessarily better than the Dilmun had, just better than the Dilmun tech that the Orions had access to. Locked fabbers, remember? And locked controls on quite a few other systems too.
Wasn’t so much that Earth has better Tech, so much as the Spitoon locked their Tech when they fled the Universe, and the Orions never really developed much in the way of creative imagination (which is why Cousin Gabe is someone highly sought after)
Basically, the Orions can build (almost) anything, as long as someone else comes up with the idea
But Peach has straight up said that the processors they could get from Earth were better than anything the Empire had.
[adamas]
Exactly.
Better computer-processors is NOT the same as having better tech overall.
It just means being more clever & more efficient with the tech you DO have.
Comparing computer-chips to “FTL-Drive”-tech is a classic case of “apples-to-oranges” …
… or, in this case, maybe “Apples-to-Crispy Bacon Waffle iron Cakes”.
Heh, that better, more clever thing. Go read the “The Troy Rising” series…vast sophisticated technologically advanced…get out thought, out innovated and out dealt by a bunch of dumb monkeys from a back water planet in an unfashionable arm of the spiral galaxy. 🙂 We were already out programming them before they showed up.
Why I said CERTAIN areas. I never said that we had better tech overall, But when you’re using tech from a “technically backward, primitive planet” to possibly run your FTL drive, it kinda says something.
Yep, it says “somebody has made a primitive widget, but it works and it is better than the stuff we came up with. Those are some smart monkeys.” 🙂
Was actually thinking about Grayson in the Honerverse. They had to invent their own Inertial Compensator for their starships because no one else would tell them how to make one and it’s turned out better than Manticore’s. Despite the general tech difference being something along the line of Human/Vulcan at First Contact. (Circuit boards vs Molecular Circuits, etc.)
I remember the strip where Stephanie invented the bacon waffle cake in Groovy Kinda. Well invented in her world, I don’t know who’s responsible for that future heart attack on wheels in this universe.
Naw. All the smart people are too busy inventing new boner pills and cures for male pattern baldness to create a servant race of catgirls.
Apparently you misread @rypperdoc. He said “brilliant”, not “smart”. He also didn’t say “sane”. ^_^
There was an SF&F Book many years ago in which Earth gets conquered by a rave of aliens who realize that Earthers are, on average, considerably smarter than the aliens are. They build better space ships, better weapons, etc. They allow the Earthers access to space, and eventually there is another war. Humans lose, on the whole, except the ones who joined the empire. At the end, they tell the humans in the council that they’ve found another race who are to the humans as the Humans are to the empire’s aliens.
Wasn’t that more that hyu-mons were better at warfare or something? The bad aliens tried to conquer Earth, and got soundly thrashed (can remember fondly one scene set in New Zealand with a couple picnicking, and how the picnic was just a trap for the bad aliens 😀 )
Hyu-mons weren’t better at building ships or weapons, they were just superior when it came to strategy (plus more aggressive, comparably to the good aliens at least: they appear weak and squishy, butt are able to endure trauma, physical and emotional, better)
I asked at Baen’s Bar Books conference. It’s Anvil’s Pandora’s Legions</>, originally published in about five parts.
Can’t remember the name of the author, or much more of the plot than already posted
Thought it was written by the guy who wrote “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye”, it was sometime in the 80’s when read it, so no idea anymore
Recently read a similar concept by Christopher Nuttall, his ‘Learning Experience’ series – human imagination and invention out does vastly powerful but stagnant aliens. Not sure if he’s been stockpiling or ridiculously fast at writing but since I stumbled across ‘Ark Royal’ on Amazon Kindle only five years ago, I’ve now picked up 54 books by him, and I know I haven’t got all his series yet,,,
Remember how the Ood turned out?
[Guesticus]:
I read that book when it first came out:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinter_of_the_Mind%27s_Eye]
Well, they do go together as in ‘The Cat looked at their servant in disappointment, first class gourmet catfood AGAIN?’