Thing about the Hivers: all the manipulations mean that you can never be sure that a Hiver is telling the truth.

As Libby, one of the massively-intelligent AIs (the Stryx), says in the EarthCent Ambassador series, "It's not that Stryx never lie, it's that we never get caught. It amounts to the same thing."

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 11:54 Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
Yeah, you'd think they'd keep themselves busy organising 'crusades' against Humaniti not to mention the vargrs, whose fragmentary states would seem to be more vulnerable.
Instead they got themselves all riled up against the Hivers & then just up & quit the whole thing!
Perhaps the true 'manipulation' was getting them to attack in the first place?



On Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 09:59:44 AM MST, Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:


One of the most ridiculous aspects of the K'kree is their vicious war against the Hivers. The vegetarian Hivers.

(Not in the sense that the background doesn't hold up, but in the sense that humans might find the K'kree ridiculous.)

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 18:18 Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 1/28/2020 7:37 PM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> As the Theme for TravellerCON/USA 2020 is to be "Hivers", I would very much
> like to make the September/October issue - the one that will be "current"
> during TCUSA - have a matching theme. To that end, I ask that you grab your
> pens/pencils and notebooks, styli and tablets, keyboard and computers,
> _whatever_, and work up some articles on Hivers - rules for using them in
> adventures or campaigns, profiles of Hivers that might be encountered,
> stories about them, pictures of them engaged in various activities,
> naKurishdam about their relations with Federation minor races, or about the
> minor races themselves, and so on - the field is wide open; the more you
> can come up with, the better the Theme Issue will be!

Could we do an underground competition/dinner theater for the 1% that
mimics Iron Chef with the PC's needing to infiltrate it (several
possible options) and rescue the "featured ingredient", in this case, a
Hiver?

:-)

Kurt "Iron Chef PA Dutch Style"

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