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On Thu, 5/12/16, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: K'kree vs Hiver, was Re: [TML] GMing Manipulations
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Thursday, May 12, 2016, 4:08 PM

 On Thu, May 12, 2016 at
 11:34 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
  (Someone Whose ID I

  Accidentally Deleted Wrote): "I've always
 wondered

  why (the K'kree) didn't also redouble their
 efforts

  to wipe out the other 'threat' (hivers) that
 created

  the first one."

  I thought that went without saying; the

  K'kree had ZERO desire to discover what ELSE the
 Hivers

  had ready to deploy, in the event that their demands
 were

  not met.

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 Yeah, but that sounds a little too 'pat' for my
 taste.

 Not to mention a little wimpy. Esp for a race as militant as
 the K'kree.

 K/kree
 are herd animals, native to wide-open plains. Everything
 I've read about them makes them sound very
 straightforward and direct, with little if any subterfuge in
 their deallins with each other or anyone else.
 The Hivers - with a society
 purposefully built upon hidden, indirect manipulation - are
 the complete antithesis of this.
 So I can easily see the K'kree -
 after being shown very clearly that direct action against
 the Hivers would result in an *indirect,* *unpredictable,*
 *sacrilegious* and thereby extremely terrifying response -
  deciding to "let sleeping dogs lie" and
 thereafter limit themselves to expanding in the opposite
 direction.  
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But if it's all really that alien to the K'kree they'd have no way to verify ("trust, but verify") that the Hivers can actually be trusted.
(Now, of course, it may just be that this is all just part of another, larger, Manipulation, but, after all, that applies to pretty much anything/everything w/i the TU.)
 I believe that it would be more in character  to see a standard reaction that dispenses with any/all chance of recurrence by going into 'stampede' mode & obliterating the unknown & unknowable threat.
A very straightforward & direct solution.

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