Exactly. Despite their well known "friendly" disposition and parental instinct, which even covers other species, they are ruthless. To use inter-culturally odd terminology, they've got a healthy dose of fascism in their outlook.
AR
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
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> That's for sure, but then don't the hivers just dump their offspring out into the wilds & just wait & see how many survive?
> (Talk about 'free-ranging' children!)
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Only on worlds where there's established Hiver communities where the
children can , at the right age, rejoin the community.
On worlds where there isn't an established community, the Hivers
fumigate their ships to make sure none of the offspring accidentally
escape the ship and are abandoned.
Yes, _fumigate_.
As in poison every one of them.
> That's a bit chilling.
Is it any wonder they had no qualms about worlds of dead K'Kree?
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