Hah!
It’s canine-a-mandíbula, buzz-brain @OtherMichael And I would never “mano-a-” anything.
Such stupid ideas have filled this galaxy with dead humans. Take that ridiculous “dance off” you posted. The opening strike failed. Fool the goal is always to kill on the first strike - like we did the Scylla. If you botch the pre-emptive kill, (and it’s always your fault if the opening strike fails to kill) – vanish. The world has no room for second-rate predators. Be Patient. Set-up the next kill. Don’t remain exposed to what should be prey.
Your puerile, posturing post isn’t worthy of response, except that you are something more than human, Captain Savaric Tubertus Wynkn Basiliscos Leontios Palaeologus al Wathiq,
You’re mellifluous.
I come from an unusually ecological stable world composed almost entirely of “high K” species. Since each species is exquisitely adapted to survive in a highly-specialized niched, my home world has produced a highly-adaptable but incredibly patient keystone predator: me.
Ambush predators are typically sculpted by evolution to be solitary and to produce flashes of catastrophic violence: a poor substrate for complex society. But I am able withstand the claustrophobic rigors of space travel, because I know how to wait. The price my species pays for that attribute is an extremely low birth rate. Thus, there aren’t many of us around, and even fewer of us are willing to put up with a pudding-head human and willfully-obtuse dracosaur for years on end.
Insects, being high r, are not a group a felinisid like me generally finds interesting. Little more than resource to be exploited, as they stupidly, endlessly tryto exponentially grow into the same generalized, manipulable niche.
Bees, however, are a curious partial exception. As individuals, bees are a typical brainless high-r species. Heck, You’re even willing to kill yourselves for … not much. But collectively, your hives are capable of some remarkably high-K type behaviors: adaptable defenses, sophisticated searches, and more.
But how did the hives arrive at the social integreation and specialization necessary to produce society? Where does the intelligence reside?
I have to go do some weapons calibrations, but I am stuck here for a long, patient voyage. I look forward to your response.
-Chee Lan.
