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Old 11-18-2020, 06:46 PM   #5
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Default Re: [Psi/Space] Irar, the Jewel in the British Crown

A bit tired, so not quoting and sorting questions, just posting some answers:

1. 'Client species' may be the wrong term, but 'subject species' would be even less accurate, and I couldn't come up with anything better. Basically, the Irari have vaguely assumed responsibility for the races that they're studying, largely out of still having consciences, but they certainly haven't conquered them.

The Coeb'lds don't need serious help, they're chugging along at a pace that seems fast to them and that we'd consider fairly slow. A lot of them don't even believe in the Irari, or don't necessarily believe that they came from outer space if they do believe in them, rather than from 'The Ancient Lost City of the Bird-People,' or something (it doesn't help that they started out by landing in isolated places and were mostly noticed by the sort of poor unsuspecting soul that hardly anyone is ever going to believe, and I haven't decided for certain if they've tried to make official contact with the Coeb'ld governments, or visited major cities), so they probably aren't having First Contact Trauma. Still, if other aliens showed up and started exploiting or otherwise harming them, the Irari would feel obligated to do something about it, which they'd really rather someone else do.

The Gormelites are actually in trouble, they're living in an After The End setting and are getting worse, so the Irari are actively trying to help them as well as studying them. Given the natural paranoia and other mental issues common to the Gormelite psyche (though there are some who have and use various mitigators), this is not easy or safe. The humans are a lot more like the Gormelites (and the Coeb'lds, for that matter), and so ought to have less difficulty, allowing the Irari to focus more on research, right?


2. The Memer-and-Saret have two problems when it comes to the Irari choosing them as imperial overlords - firstly, the Memer are frequently shy, being a bit afraid of other species beyond themselves and the Saret (blueish, barnacle-like beings that grow on the Memers' underbellies, with an unknown level of intelligence - though they do seem to communicate with each other). Second, the Memer are creepy from the Irari perspective, given that they look like giant green beetles, and the more common cockroach species on Irar are green. Humans, on the other hand, are sort of vaguely 'cute' to Irari minds, resembling bigger, smarter, less furry versions of common pets.


3. The 'Not It!' thing isn't exactly wrong, it's just that the thing they're trying to avoid isn't a known outside threat, it really is 'being in charge,' and neither the Coeb'lds (not very bright, and poor at administration) nor the Gormelites (serious psychological problems) were ever in the running. Mind you, there are a number of suspected outside threats, it's just that the humans are both better at organization and better at war, and so the Irari are pretty sure that as long as they take some Irari science officers along, they'll do better than the Irari would do alone - or serve as good-enough speedbumps to give the Irari time to SCIENCE! up a solution.


4. The 'conquest by surrender' idea is interesting, and certainly something paranoid humans would come up with, but isn't the way the Irari are going.


Might have another information post, soon, still working on things.
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