[TML] Alternate K'kree origin?

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 8 Jul 2008 at 23:02, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> 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.

Unless they "learn" to. That'd be an unlikely evolutionary leap, but 
if it happened it'd be a *huge* advantage.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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