Things I have learned living among the Reenon Kreb

2008-06-28

They:

  • Often cannot relate to humanity, and chalk this up to “cultural differences”.
  • Have occupations which are recognizably combinations of our own, such as" “politicomedians”.
  • Appear insectoid and have enormous hulls in their starfaring ships, yet are alarmingly cute.
  • Get a kick out of trading spices (simply because they watched Dune and Star Wars). They have little practical use for them.
  • Hated Starship Troopers but are looking forward to Spore.
  • Put the “mental” in incremental.
  • Have not separation of church and state, but “states of churches”.
  • Need to share resources, or else they will spontaneously self-combust.
  • By far and large, do not invent problems.

  • Are, by far and large, amoral. At least that’s the closest word I can come up with.
  • Do not believe in privacy.
  • Can’t sneeze.
  • Generate illustrious excitement through sheer apathy.
  • Convert bored/useless members of their race into food, either for themselves or livestock. (Which means they are cannibals.)
  • Believe there are no such things as abductions, only interstellar foreign exchange programs.
  • Never separate “entertainment” from “education”. All fun must be useful.
  • Would (generally) rather have strong preferences than none at all.
  • Have conversations which translate into utter grammatical nonsense, but are still perfectly comprehensible to us Earthkin.

(The above is speculative fiction.)

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Dizzy Banjo 2008-06-30 at 9:12 AM UTC

the spice must flow

Torley 2008-07-06 at 7:21 AM UTC

Hahahaha yes it must.

<3 Dune

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