Mustache Man
SOC-6
I was wondering weather eating K'kree meat is considered a taboo or a tasty meal. Personally they kinda deserve it
Is eating K'kree meat considered uncool or very tasty?
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Condottiere
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Depending on cattle sentience, we usually try to avoid eating things that are demonstrably intelligent.
Like octopus and swine.
Like octopus and swine.
kilemall
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I think sentient and equipped with nukes is that much more of a no eat dividing line.
Grognard_1
SOC-7
I mean, you can try - but there might be consequences...
Sure, but if you succeed, he's like an MRE - he comes with his own can/pot and heating element . . .
Condottiere
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I'm sure there's a lobster comment I heard from somewhere in the past, possibly from an Orcish source.
Well, hence my MEME.... 30 years since I trotted out the K'Kree BBQ on the TML. And it took on a life of it's own.
How about French Fried Bwap legs?
Or Deep Fried Droyne?
While I suspect the eat of fellow Sentients is on par with Cannibalism.
Mustache Man
SOC-6
Did Droynes or Bwaps do something to deserve it? I'm not up to speed with all of traveller lore but the K'Kree are assholes with thier genocide
Mustache Man
SOC-6
Good, that means more meat for me and my family
King Midas
SOC-11
Depends on your kind of swine. I've been observing Long Pig colonies for decades. They are city builders and tool users, so... maybe as smart as termites?
(Somebody had to say it)
K'kree point out that G'nak aren't intelligent. Their predatory cunning merely simulates it.
Mustache Man
SOC-6
Well the K'kree are racists so of course they'd say that. The same can be said of the K'kree
As much as the K'kree are probably viewed as a potential threat to Imperial citizens on the trailing frontier and among the smaller states, the general pan-sophantist attitude views of the Imperium would probably view anyone who ate a defeated K'kree as a psychopath or a war criminals.
This isn't to say that there wouldn't be psychopaths and war criminals within the Imperium, or that other interstellar societies in sectors bordering the Two Thousand Worlds wouldn't have different cultural values when it comes to a potential war with the K'kree.
That said, it wouldn't be surprising if this wouldn't be built up as wartime propaganda by the K'kree government, even if there is no such evidence of such an atrocity. Tech Level D Generative AI propaganda is likely to be very persuasive.
This isn't to say that there wouldn't be psychopaths and war criminals within the Imperium, or that other interstellar societies in sectors bordering the Two Thousand Worlds wouldn't have different cultural values when it comes to a potential war with the K'kree.
That said, it wouldn't be surprising if this wouldn't be built up as wartime propaganda by the K'kree government, even if there is no such evidence of such an atrocity. Tech Level D Generative AI propaganda is likely to be very persuasive.
King Midas
SOC-11
Let us assume the Aslan continue their racial imperative, and sometime in the future, they Ihatai their way up to K'kree territory. For the K'kree this would be a war of extinction, but what would happen if the Aslan won? Would the Aslan go with the "pan-sophantist attitude" above, or would they keep the surviving K'kree as cattle?
NOTE: There is an itch at the back of my head saying that Aslan can't eat interstellar meat. IMTU that would be quite non canon, but that itch...
Mustache Man
SOC-6
If they kept them as cattle I'd visit to get a nice K'Kree burger, because they brought it upon themselves
Condottiere
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Possibly, that was the Hiver intervention, teaching them about the circle of life.
And introducing the Aslan.
And introducing the Aslan.
Despite the instinct that drives the Ihatai, recall that Aslan culture does have a profound role as well. Imperial Aslan, who are likely to be the the first Aslan to encounter K'kree in a hypothetical war, will have incorporated Imperial ethos of pan-sophantism.
Indeed, the Hierate as portrayed is somewhat cosmopolitan: Humans who adopt Aslan culture are integrated into the society of the Hierate. Though as I recall there are canonical examples of Ihatai committing genocide against Droyne and Chirpers in order to take certain worlds, there are also minor races that live within the Heirate. I suspect that eating the meat of a sophant species, (though probably occurs in legends and heroic epics) is a taboo in the modern Hierate.
That said, there are Aslan who live outside of the Hierate who are considered heretical (see the practice of slavery in the Glorious Empire in the Trojan Reach. Could there be some heretical Aslan faction that eats the flesh of its sophant enemies? Sure, but I suspect that most Hierate warriors would find them repugnant, and even war against them –– held with the same disdain we might have towards psychopaths and war criminals.
Maybe somebody with greater expertise on the Aslan could rule in?
There were some Clans anciently. They were eliminated in the Aslan Cultural Purge. Or driven far to the Transrift . . .
A really good reason to not eat other Sophents is that it gives other Sophants the idea that they can greenlight hunting/eating YOU. Circle of Life anyone?
This came up in another thread where I mentioned that, in a book that I had recently read at the time, there was a race that ate Humans because Humans are an aphrodisiac for them.
Prime Directive by Davis Bunn.
In the early years of the K'kree, they were hunted & eaten by the carnivores on their planet. As their civilization grew the problem was taken care of, but the fear is still there. If there was a Sophant race hunting & eating them, making their fears real, that would be a war where one race is going to become a historical notation. And what about any race that gets in their way or actually sides/ally's with the G'nak that's eating them? Would the K'kree accept G'nak allies in defense of their very lives?
I think we can actually answer the Thread Title if we replace K'kree meat with Human, Aslan, Hiver, Vargr, Droyne, Other Sophent, meat.
This came up in another thread where I mentioned that, in a book that I had recently read at the time, there was a race that ate Humans because Humans are an aphrodisiac for them.
Prime Directive by Davis Bunn.
In the early years of the K'kree, they were hunted & eaten by the carnivores on their planet. As their civilization grew the problem was taken care of, but the fear is still there. If there was a Sophant race hunting & eating them, making their fears real, that would be a war where one race is going to become a historical notation. And what about any race that gets in their way or actually sides/ally's with the G'nak that's eating them? Would the K'kree accept G'nak allies in defense of their very lives?
I think we can actually answer the Thread Title if we replace K'kree meat with Human, Aslan, Hiver, Vargr, Droyne, Other Sophent, meat.
Condottiere
SOC-14 5K
We do have the technology to process any protein.
"Soylent K'kreen is aliens!"
"Soylent K'kreen is aliens!"
