[TML] Alternate K'kree origin?

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 7/8/08 10:45 AM, "Gerall Kahla" <games at gkahla.net> wrote:

> Jerry W Barrington wrote:
>> I dunno.  I've always had a bit of a problem with K'kree.  I mean, what
>> could push a species of herbivores to intelligence?  On Earth at least, they
>> seem among the least intelligent critters.  :)
>> 
>> Maybe the Ancients did it?
> 
> According to CT canon, they evolved to sentience in parallel with their
> native predators on their homeworld. The K'kree lucked out and invented
> the better weapons at just the right time and sent their native predator
> extinct well before any outsider species made contact.
> 
> So, it was evolutionary pressure to keep up with their predator that
> kept them developing sentience.

Seems doubtful.  Herbivores simply aren't aggressive in the way carnivores
are.  Don't get me wrong, they can be plenty mean.  But once you are no
longer an immediate threat, they don't worry about you anymore.