[TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens

[Douglas Berry]

At 03:36 PM 1/23/2008, Brad Murray raced into the room, and announced 
the following:
>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.

Do you really think ancient and proud race would allow itself to be 
modified into the thing it hates the most just to get access to a few 
markets? The Hivers did that to a few worlds during the K'kree-Hiver 
War. The K'kree blasted the worlds sterile.

I'm also amused at your assumption that human ships will always 
outclass  K'kree ones. The Two Thousand Worlds has many subject 
races, aliens who have embraced vegetarianism and hatred of the 
gn'aack, who could easily provide fighter crews, engineering crews 
for cramped spaces, etc.


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