On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

(Someone Whose ID I
Accidentally Deleted Wrote): "I've always wondered
why (the K'kree) didn't also redouble their efforts
to wipe out the other 'threat' (hivers) that created
the first one."
I thought that went without saying; the
K'kree had ZERO desire to discover what ELSE the Hivers
had ready to deploy, in the event that their demands were
not met.

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Yeah, but that sounds a little too 'pat' for my taste.

Not to mention a little wimpy. Esp for a race as militant as the K'kree.

K/kree are herd animals, native to wide-open plains. Everything I've read about them makes them sound very straightforward and direct, with little if any subterfuge in their deallins with each other or anyone else.

The Hivers - with a society purposefully built upon hidden, indirect manipulation - are the complete antithesis of this.

So I can easily see the K'kree - after being shown very clearly that direct action against the Hivers would result in an *indirect,* *unpredictable,* *sacrilegious* and thereby extremely terrifying response - deciding to "let sleeping dogs lie" and thereafter limit themselves to expanding in the opposite direction.

Richard Aiken

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