Hairy Jim DeGriz
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Mmmmm Roast of K'kree with mushrooms and cherries? Or am I totally missing a joke here?
The Gateway: Lords of Thunder Wars, or the Vegetarian Conquests
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Condottiere
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Couldn't find a poster with someone eating a steak and that headline.
Condottiere
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Speaking of animal products, what about civet coffee?
Or is that value added?
Talk about TML memes coming back to haunt the author....
Hairy Jim DeGriz
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I'll see your Civet and raise you a tree of Moroccan Goats
Argan nuts pass through the digestive system of a tree goat whole. Once they are excreted, people gather them from the goat's droppings and crack them open to expose the seeds inside.
Argan nuts contain anywhere from one to three oil-rich kernels. These kernels are then roasted, ground, mashed or cold-pressed to produce argan oil, one of the most highly sought after culinary and cosmetic liquids in the world.
Tree goats
These Moroccan goats climb up local argan trees often, and they make a lot of people a lot of money by doing it
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Condottiere
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If you think about it, honey.
Though that's insect origin.
Though that's insect origin.
Hairy Jim DeGriz
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Once upon a time... this was intended to be a serious thread, that was hijacked by the likes of myself. sigh.
I've been following this Thread, and I feel that your Posts have been balanced between Serious and Hilarious.
I wonder if the former enemies working together against the threatening K'Kree expansion isn't an artifact of Hiver interest in the unwelcome expansion of said K'Kree threat. The time frame of the campaign you mentioned would require former enemies overcoming some formidable animosities towards each other before working together against a common threat. They might even be getting help/support from the Hivers through intermediaries to work together...
Everyone wants a piece of their electronics superiority, including hPhones and hPads.
Hairy Jim DeGriz
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Maybe I shouldn't encourage the class clowns, but I tend to be one myself and I can't be serious all of the time...
General Patton wanted to re-mobilize the Wermacht (German Army) in 1945 and create a combined Allied + German offensive against the Soviets. I don't know how much traction that idea had, but it did not come to pass.
Compare the Soviet treat to a war weary Europe against a truly genocidal alien threat from the k'kree, and inject some Hiver master manipulation, and I think that more of Humaniti might rally together against the k'kree. Or they could devolve into Yugoslav partisans who killed more fellow Yugoslavs than they killed occupying Germans by some accounts.
That's the root of my hypothetical musings. Also any movie where a really bad Alien threat makes everyone on earth throw aside their differences for the sake of saving Humanti. In the sequel they would revert to hating other humans.
Condottiere
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Everyone on the western half wanted to go home, alive, not start another five year war.
You'd clearly have to propagate propaganda to drum up continued support from the electorate, that they plan to genocide all meat eaters.
Though that does bring up the issue of insect eaters and cultured meat.
You'd clearly have to propagate propaganda to drum up continued support from the electorate, that they plan to genocide all meat eaters.
Though that does bring up the issue of insect eaters and cultured meat.
BackworldTraveller
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So Vegan Bacon really is pointless?
Condottiere
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In bad taste?
Hairy Jim DeGriz
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Agreed on both points, but consider that an interstellar war does not impact each subsector equally. Where all of Europe was tired of war, after the Solomani War you would probably have many units that had been mobilized but not yet reached the front lines, and other units that may have engaged in limited combat, especially along the periphery of the conflict. Demobilization in Traveller seems to produce mercenaries.
Queue the Propaganda -AND- Hiver Manipulation
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