[TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens

[Stuart Frew]

On 24/01/2008, Brad Murray <bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 3:06 PM, Garry Ward <garry.e.ward at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > Ah, humans are omnivores and the goal of the K'Kree is to exterminate
> any
> > race that eats meat.
>
> Well, they're screwed then: human ships will outperform theirs at most
> scales, and human interstellar economics will further batter them.
> They will have to learn to be less inexplicably homogenous (my chief
> criticism of all Traveller aliens) and get with *some* competitive
> program.  If a minority of K'kree ever arise that can conquer their
> xenophobia or their claustrophobia (or both!), whether through drugs,
> genetics, training, logic, or whatever, that minority will dominate
> interstellar relationships.


Why do the K'kree want or need to trade with despicable meat eaters.

Its unlikely to be cultural goods, certainly not food.

Manufacturing capability? Assuming the name of the empire (two thousand
suns) is not too much of a hyperbole they can manufacture what they want.

Technology? Perhaps, but that would not be trade in a economic sense but one
of deals.