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Is eating K'kree meat considered uncool or very tasty?

Well, there are ways of making it less than obvious...

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Seriously, there is some group of nuts out there, that has a "Sophant and Lunch Club" or some such.

Hiver rings on pizza, Vegan steaks, pickled Vargr feet, fillet of Aslan.

Tasty food, tasteless jokes.

I'll leave vie the airlock now.
 
Seriously, there is some group of nuts out there, that has a "Sophant and Lunch Club" or some such.

Hiver rings on pizza, Vegan steaks, pickled Vargr feet, fillet of Aslan.

Tasty food, tasteless jokes.

I'll leave vie the airlock now.
That's disgusting
I just want to eat K'kree
 
What happens on Vega5 stays on Vega5.

Seriously, departure is forbidden.
Vega5, Baby!

Instead of the Rat Pack, you have the Suerrat Pack.

That would be interesting as a Space Rumor or a Lost Civilization.

Everybody wants to go there, but they can't find anyone to recommend the best places to go when you get there.
 
The meat is weird and green, stinks like sour ... something. Have a bite!

Alien plants and animals are unlikely to be edible, if not downright poisonous.
 
The meat is weird and green, stinks like sour ... something. Have a bite!

Alien plants and animals are unlikely to be edible, if not downright poisonous.

Or like on Vland, will need to be significantly "prepped" by some process to break down the proteins and/or remove the toxins and make them edible to the Human metabolism.
 
Most of these situations are wildly contrived to stir people up and be shocking.
Maybe.
Probably.
Definitely.

1. Plot Device.
2. Another Plot Device.
3. Just read the CotI for starters. BBQ K'kree steaks, K'kree taco's, K'kree-ka-bobs, Deli sliced K'kree, K'kree chili, K'kree stew, K'kree burgers, Hickory smoked K'kree, K'kree meatloaf, K'kree and fried rice, K'kree spam, corned K'kree, and so on.
4. More Plot Devices.
5. Even More Plot Devices.

Honesty, these kind of Plot Devices rarely appear in fiction, at least anything that I've read over the years, and it's never a good feeling when it does. But there's lots of stuff used as Plot Devices that make the reader uncomfortable.
 
You and your buddy mercs just shot up a bunch of K'Kree in a firefight. The merchant that owns and runs the ship that brought you tells you they have a buyer on planet Starving for the meat and you can get 10% of the take if you clean and stack the carcasses in the cargo hold...

When you ask what the take is and he says, Oh, about half a mill Imperial... You start shouting at your guys to get those devil ponies all nicely dressed and stacked in the hold like yesterday...
 
A real issue for future colonization efforts on extant biospheres- can’t eat the stuff, or digested and just passes through.… optimally.

Leaves us with the choice of how much native life to leave vs our compatible flora and fauna. May not be the devilish precision of the cthorr biome wreckers, but even a benign transplant can end up being an ecocide.

And one that backfires if we kill off the oxygen generator species.
 
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