Excerpt from an interview with Agent Malaclypse Fnord in Interworld Strategic Quarterly (internal Convention zine, 2022):
A: The Draka are a threat, if only because every time we root the bastards out they've caused or are causing all kinds of havoc. So I'm not saying that we should, you know, let them be or anything. But on the whole they're not worse than, say, the Armenen Order or the rest of the Time Nazis. We've run into Draka operations before, and we've actually got a pretty good idea of their abilities and their limitations.
Q: What are those limitations?
A: Well, first of all you've got to remember that the Drakan interworld system can't really transport a lot; I'm no scientist or engineer, so I can't give you details but based on all we know about the Draka they can only send one or two people through to any given world. Second, the Draka are just arrogant enough to think that that's really enough to conquer a world. It isn't, it really really isn't. They can cause damage and maybe if the stars align create quasi-Drakan cults around them but conquest? Not really possible. So the question becomes "Why don't they just send more people through piecemeal?" That's what our soi-distant allies in Infinity and Centrum do when they're beating each other up, isn't it? Well, again arrogance. C-Sec's never had a lot of live Draka to talk to because everything in their creed seems to have "Death Before" in it, but it seems that homo drakensis doesn't work or play well with others. I think the main reason they're all such horny little bastards is that's the only way they can maintain a stable population.
Third, and this is the big one... they're actually kind of dim. No joke. Again, working from what data we have we think the Draka's homeline has some sort of... "luck nexus" is what Tina calls it. It's kind of like a huge supernatural reservoir of good luck that the ancestors of the Draka managed to tap into early on in their development and then used it to conquer their world. So all the genetic engineering they've done to themselves, being faster and stronger and longer-lived and all the rest of that was aimed at exploiting this luck reserve that allowed them to be on top and stay that way. Once they start poking out into the wider multiverse... the luck goes away. They still have the physical advantages but the metaphysical one that always let them win no matter the odds is gone. They have to rely on their wits. And let me tell you that without that luck? They aren't much brighter than the average C-Sec. In fact a lot of 'em are probably less so.
Q: What do you propose as a method of dealing with the Draka?
A: Obviously we've got to find their homeline first. But I think if the luck nexus theory holds out that we figure out a way to blow it up, or transfer the luck from the masters to the slaves. Ought to give the Snakes something to think about...
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A: The Draka are a threat, if only because every time we root the bastards out they've caused or are causing all kinds of havoc. So I'm not saying that we should, you know, let them be or anything. But on the whole they're not worse than, say, the Armenen Order or the rest of the Time Nazis. We've run into Draka operations before, and we've actually got a pretty good idea of their abilities and their limitations.
Q: What are those limitations?
A: Well, first of all you've got to remember that the Drakan interworld system can't really transport a lot; I'm no scientist or engineer, so I can't give you details but based on all we know about the Draka they can only send one or two people through to any given world. Second, the Draka are just arrogant enough to think that that's really enough to conquer a world. It isn't, it really really isn't. They can cause damage and maybe if the stars align create quasi-Drakan cults around them but conquest? Not really possible. So the question becomes "Why don't they just send more people through piecemeal?" That's what our soi-distant allies in Infinity and Centrum do when they're beating each other up, isn't it? Well, again arrogance. C-Sec's never had a lot of live Draka to talk to because everything in their creed seems to have "Death Before" in it, but it seems that homo drakensis doesn't work or play well with others. I think the main reason they're all such horny little bastards is that's the only way they can maintain a stable population.
Third, and this is the big one... they're actually kind of dim. No joke. Again, working from what data we have we think the Draka's homeline has some sort of... "luck nexus" is what Tina calls it. It's kind of like a huge supernatural reservoir of good luck that the ancestors of the Draka managed to tap into early on in their development and then used it to conquer their world. So all the genetic engineering they've done to themselves, being faster and stronger and longer-lived and all the rest of that was aimed at exploiting this luck reserve that allowed them to be on top and stay that way. Once they start poking out into the wider multiverse... the luck goes away. They still have the physical advantages but the metaphysical one that always let them win no matter the odds is gone. They have to rely on their wits. And let me tell you that without that luck? They aren't much brighter than the average C-Sec. In fact a lot of 'em are probably less so.
Q: What do you propose as a method of dealing with the Draka?
A: Obviously we've got to find their homeline first. But I think if the luck nexus theory holds out that we figure out a way to blow it up, or transfer the luck from the masters to the slaves. Ought to give the Snakes something to think about...
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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