sad Cam in Milliways, with company
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"Well, yes, we're silly and don't have them, but to predict how they apply to aliens more broadly..."

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"Could maybe go a few different ways with some nudging. I don't think by default you would get a lot of Amentans deeply conserved with pan-galaxy farmer solidarity but I think if you did it right you'd get some."

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"That would be a heck of a union."

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"Don't tempt me."

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"I'm not sure a near-omnipotent farmer's union would be a good thing, although I guess if there's enough demons it wouldn't be a starving sort of thing."

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"Castes don't have that much power even internally, think 'interest group'. But I suppose it could easily destabilize nice stable places."

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"Maybe vigilante farmers will swoop down upon obscure farmer-oppressing civilizations."

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"I actually think it's probably the best avenue to getting humanitarian Amentans. Which we will want eventually, if we're going to make up a numerically large share of the galaxy sooner or later."

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"There may yet be other sapients as keen on apple crisp as you all are. Or with other reasons to have high fertility rates. But yes."

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"Are there any - some species of animals have lots and lots of young and don't parent them -"

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"R-selected sapients? Might be but that's not conjurable."

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"I suppose not." Shiver. "Bar, do you happen to know?"

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It's not unheard of. I can't tell where they are relative to your planet based on the information I have.

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Nod. "Could grab some of those and take them to Revelation too."

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"If they are nice and would make good daeva."

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"Yes, I am not in favor of overrunning your lovely world with vicious daeva who will only trade for the opportunity to eat live ducks."

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"If they'd settle for demonic ducks that wouldn't be that bad, although it'd mean they wouldn't contribute usefully to the demon population in particular."

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"No, no, my hypothetical species wants to catch 'em flying."

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"Pull! - that reference is not likely to translate -"

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"I've done some reading but don't know that one, no."

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"There's an old sport where targets are launched into the air and then you shoot them. You call for a new target by saying 'pull'."

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"Bar, got the name of any Warp r-selected sapients so we can conjure around and learn if they'll settle for duck projectiles?"

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She can come up with some samples for them to look at.

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Promising candidates for Revelation relocation?

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Insect aliens who produce no art and only very utilitarian writing and architecture and such. Cephalopods who continued killing most of their children even after they had enough control over the environment to save them. Silicon-based creatures who are at constant war, but there's not enough of them for it to even reasonably be over living space.

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