Yet Another Brain Fart -- err, plot bunny

[Valles]

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The Paladin government involved are rather annoyed, with all the parties involved, each faction has different reason. Some that the miners attacked a random planet. Some that they lost the fight. Some that they lost the system. Some that there are known people they cant convert anytime soon or even attempt.

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And, likely, more than a few that they got bluffed down by what was essentially a flying engine with delusions of grandeur. ^_^
Yep. And this, er, less stark version of events would do better for the sort of political fencing that'd make for good adventure hooks. Thanks!
...So, when the Precursors were seeding, they added a retrovirus that altered the 'colonists' to be able to eat the local food, and when the Nekojin were bombing themselves to bits, one of the bioweapons that got scattered around went and altered them so that that ancient change was partially undone? What I had been thinking was that the modern 'cat people' breed had been created as, essentially, clonable shock troops for at one of the factions involved in that war, and that they'd, though a combination of luck and the changes made to them, been the only one of probably serveral types, including baseline humans, to survive to the current day in significant numbers.

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These are examples of other species using tools. I saw a case of an injured fox who spent the winter with a family bring its kids with it to stay the winter the next year. This worked. Ive had cats go to the vet and come back suddenly able to operate doors. They didnt learn from the vets. Animals teach their offspring and each other survival behavior also dont thing these are human only traits.

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Never thought they were. I'm simply saying that I think that tool use has an effect on the way and rate that a species evolves, and that this is most noticable in humans because we're, one, so good at it, and two, rely on it so utterly.
I'm sort of working on a writeup of the Imperials, BTW, so stay tuned.
Ja, -n

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