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On Fri, 5/13/16, Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: K'kree vs Hiver, was Re: [TML] GMing Manipulations
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, May 13, 2016, 11:27 AM

 On Fri, May 13, 2016 at
 11:14 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 Nah, the manipulation had to be known
 to more than a few higher poo-bahs 'cuz wiping out the
 world/s wouldn't have happened otherwise.

 Not a trivial endeavor at all.
 The level of effort and the level of knowledge
 are two different issues.
 The great herd is well
 known for it's tendency to obey orders without
 question.  Questioning your superiors is an excellent way
 to end up demoted, permanently single, or outcast.
 All it would take is a
 simple, high level, plausible explanation:  "The
 Hivers have infected the K'Kree on those worlds with an
 incurable disease that cannot be allowed to spread to the
 rest of the Herd."
 That the disease was
 ideological rather than biological need not be advertised or
 admitted.
 Most K'Kree aren't
 going to question the exact nature of the disease.  They
 will take it on faith that the leadership has better
 information than they do.  They will feel some regret that
 their fellow K'Kree were infected by those damn omnivore
 Hivers, and then they'll scrub the planets.
 (Or maybe the K'Kree
 will job it to one of their client races, who may not be
 entirely thrilled with being a client race, and who may
 actually enjoy scrubbing all traces of K'Kree settlement
 off those planets....  That would be a bonus for the
 Hivers, planting the idea in the heads of client race
 citizens that the K'Kree were subject to defeat.  Or
 forcing the K'Kree to kill their client troops after the
 action concluded, to keep the word from getting out among
 the client races.)

 IDK how thoroughly the
 K'Kree would feel the need to scrub them.  Or how well
 the K'Kree leadership would think it out.   Imagine, a
 generation later, the survey crew finds an intact kitchen
 with bones in a soup pot....
 Or even how wide spread the
 "infections" were on those worlds.   The hivers
 didn't necessarily have to get EVERY K'Kree on the
 planet to eat meat, or enjoy being in an isolation box,
 closed up by themselves.  
 How many examples do you
 think it would take to panic the leadership?
 What if it was just a
 couple of dozen high ranking leaders?
 Dan

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For me, it's not the 'panic' that's in question.

It's their response that is in question.

I think the K'kree' response would be to 'smite the predator' not 'run, hide, & pretend/hope it doesn't really exist'.

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