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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, 9:10 PM

 On Thu, May 12, 2016 at
 6:45 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
  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.
 Except that this - invasion and
 conquest - was what the K'kree were already doing, when
 the manipulation was revealed to the top decision makers.
 Given how fanatic K'kree are, I'm sure that they
 were already pressing the conquest of Hiver space to the
 furthest extent feasible. So if the Hivers were able to have
 done this to several K'kree worlds while already engaged
 to such a degree, then what other horrors lay in store for
 if the Thousand Worlds if the K'kree
 persisted?
 Consider:
 compared to the physical invasion which the K'kree were
 undertaking, a manipulation requires nothing tangible in the
 way of resources. To the K'kree, the manipulation would
 have seemed to be nothing short of an Evil Spell. How do you
 fight an Evil Spell, when you've never previously
 considered that Magic even existed?
 Not that I think there was actually
 all that much rational decision making involved.  The
 K'kree leaders involved decided in a knee-jerk reaction
 to cover up the Evil Spell and then deny - even to
 themselves - that there ever had *been* an Evil Spell to
 cover up. 

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AND, just sit & wait to see what that EVIL is going to do next?
I just can't see the K'Kree going with a 'cringe, cower, & crawl' option.
Just hoping & praying that THE EVIL will leave them alone from now on doesn't seem very, well, 'K'Kree-like' to me.
As fanatics I believe they'd react to this existential threat by calling for a redoubling of effort, whether it was possible or not.
"We have to wipe them from the face of the universe, or, assuredly, they will do worse than destroy us".
That's a very powerful motivator & running & hiding (like a herd of springbucks?) is not one that would even occur to them.
I see the K'kree as behaving more like a herd of african elephants.

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