Ponies: An herbivorous, herd based, female dominant, highly pacifistic, planet bound society.
Kzinti: A carnivorous, male only (the females aren't sapient), extremely aggressive, space faring military culture.
When the lone scout ship Thrak-Shan is sent to investigate a White Dwarf orbiting a planet, the crew find themselves overlooking Kzin paradise. The world, dubbed Tetra due to the dominant lifeforms being quadrupeds, is rich in untapped resources. On top of that, its wilds are full of wonderfully dangerous prey, and its inhabitants are ideal slave material. The only problem would be convincing their superiors that such a planet even exists, so of course, they enslave one of the locals and take it back with them.
Crosses over with Larry Niven's Man/Kzin Wars series.
Cover from Man/Kzin Wars Volume IX.
Tagged for gore because Kzin.
Oh, horseapples...
Liked and tracked, for the concept.
You had me up to the 'no humans' part. Seriously the monkeys were the best reason to read those books. The Kzin are a stupid race that had no business in space.
6131934 Well, if you can come up with a way to include them that doesn't feel like they were shoehorned into a story they didn't belong in, I'll add them.
*rubs hands "Oooh Da Lolly!" as Robin Hood would say. I cant wait for the "Scream and Leap" predators to suddenly find out what vengance means in the hooves of somepony who's celestial name isnt' just there for decoration...
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Fair enough. But if I remember right the Humans were traded an FTL drive by the Outsiders? Or was it the Puppet masters? Just a thought. They could come by later to deny resources to the growing Kzin threat. Going to check out the story now. I am sure the story could be good either way.
6146586 Yeah, I've just set this at around the same time as the first Man/Kzin war. Kzin culture has not yet suffered the backlash of losing (Kdapists are a terrifying concept) and FTL travel is not in use.
Actually, I know how I can add them, and keep everyone in line with their culture and instincts. Spoilers, of course.
Okaaaay.
Two of my favourite realms.
Now, off to read.
Unsure of the relative power level.
Of course, a lot could be because Celestia diddn't actually cut loose, but retreating in the face of a handful of Kzin, when there may be tens of thousands, with orbital weaponry...
6187599 She was going to level them right up until that laser shot actually damaged her. Then self-preservation kicked in.
This story doesn't deserve it's downvotes. It's well written and interesting.
As someone who is a fan of kzinti, this is something I intend to read. However, I stupidly had two tabs open at once and mixed 'em up. So I temporarily added this to a badfic group and had to go back and fix what I did. So it's been removed from that group, and now I'm just going to bookmark this until I'm done with that horrible story in my other browser tab...
6192237 No harm done, just let me know what you think.
6192126 I think this story got a lot of flack for the Kzin winning round 1.
Will do.
Interesting. I don't know anything about the kzin so this'll be fun.
Not knowing anything about the verse that you've crossed with MLP, your writing style turned my curiosity into patient attention.
I very much would like to see what you intend to do with this 'plot bunny', as you've put it.
Well, this should be very interesting indeed. I'm genuinely unsure how this will go, but Celestia has perhaps a century to prepare. I hope it will amount to something...
Using the anthem of Caliborn's triumph? Well, that's not at all ominous...
Anyway, great bit of awkward first contact.
This looks pretty good so far.
You set this 100 years before the show so that the mane six can be involved, right?
6436691 Of course, it's a little under 50 years each way.
I love the K'zin and the novels of the Man/K'zin Wars. I remember some of the blurb for the novels:
"The K'zin thought the pacifistic monkeys were going to be easy prey. It turned out to not be the case. What the K'zin never could understand is the reason Man made war no more was because Man was so very, very good at it!"
My plan was to take that and add..."When they arrived at the strange little world, the K'zin thought the pacifistic herbivores were going to be an excellent and tasty food source. The K'zin also thought the griffons were an inferior predatory species which would quickly lose their hunting grounds to the invading troops. It turned out the K'zin were wrong on both counts...they were better off messing with the monkeys."
Still, I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes
As for the K'zinti language, unfortunately, there's a lot more to it than just imitating a bunch of reowrs and screeches, which are hard enough for transliteration. But there's also the body language to consider.
For example:
Just a simple Leap can mean quite a number of different things, such as: "I want to play! Give me a good hunt or I'll make it hurt a LOT more when I kill you!" or "That's my chair, bitch!" etc., etc.
While just a simple Scream can mean quite a number of other different things, like: "You're ugly!" or "You're inferior to me!" or "You're dismissed!" or "My mother wears combat boots!" and so on....
On the other hand, Scream and Leap is pretty much a clearly understood singular concept basically meaning "YOU'RE GONNA DIE, MOTHERFUCKER!!"
I'm going to guess that since there isn't a hiatus or cancelled sticker on this fic that there's a chance of it continuing.
I wasn't quite feeling the first chapter, but chapter two is very promising. I hope to get to read more of it someday.