so why do they go into space at all?
Because the G'naak, the lovely fellows who were hunting, capturing, and eaten them alive, had a colony on Kirur's moon.
If the prospect of hanging can concentrate one's mind, the prospect of becoming tartare must really do so.
dunno ... seems kind of artificial, like saying humans require an arboreal setting.
We're plains apes, Fly. Cursorial limbs, persistence hunting, and all that.
The Seurrat are the ones with whopping huge trees running down the center of their STL generation shipss.
... so the k'kree are intelligent cattle, rather than sophonts based on herbivores?
Sophonts based on herbivores.