Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
"You know," Twilight said as she lounged on the couch with her girlfriend and watched the news, "If I had been told that magic was going to make some bird species intelligent enough to be recognized as sophonts—and, you know, that magic was a real, demonstrable, and testable phenomenon—I would have guessed it would just be ravens and parrots."
"Really?" Sunset asked, actually managing to sound interested. "I have to ask, why you'd have put your money there?"
Twilight shot her a look. "Have you read what scientists found out about them from before the shift? Ravens were already clever tool users capable of vocally passing on knowledge to not only other members of their groups, which by the way operate on established social structures that have social consequences when broken, but to other groups of ravens around them who can then pass it on to other groups. Heck, one guy who routinely harassed ravens as part of an old experiment to see if they could learn facial recognition learned that they did the hard way. When he went to set off two unkindnesses dozens of miles away to do the experiment's second run, they attacked him on sight because they already had a description of the guy from the other ravens. And parrots could learn, understand, and communicate in other languages. Some grey parrots even showed the ability to make jokes, and again, this was before magic!"
"Huh," Sunset said as she processed this. "And you're sure they weren't intelligent enough to be recognized as sophonts before the saturation?" There were a few moments of uncomfortable silence. "We'll call PAULDRONS in the morning, make sure there aren't any lingering issues."
"Agreed." Twilight said, going back to watching. "Still, I can't believe emu of all birds get a brain boost via magic."
"What I can't believe," Sunset said, gesturing at the screen where Blackfeather Kicked-a-Dingo was giving his address, "is that he's demanding the 'territory conceded to his ancestors after winning the war' that was 'stolen in a brutal terror campaign' afterwards. I mean, that has to be some sort of misremembered thing from before they became intelligent enough to understand stuff right?"
Twilight suddenly had a very nervous look on her face. "Hahaha, funny story about that actually..."
Three years later, and with only one intervention by Sunset to prevent an outbreak of war from the actions of extremists of both species, Dromaia was recognized as the official second nation upon continental Australia.
Not sure where Whiteeyes is going with the land owed to emu, but here's a case of real world experimentation with corvid facial recognition.
Never mind that first part. DragonGeek informed me of the Great Emu War.
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If the Emu want a piece of Australia, they can have the parts with the killer kangaroo. Just let us keep the platypi, please.
Dromaia... What's the origin of that name, I wonder.
If insects become sophonts, things are gonna change a lot?
OH! Nice title pun! SNAFU!
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intelligent enough to be recognized as
Oh lord the Emu War.
And because I suspect that some people are wondering why the continent has the same name as our reality, the name is derived from Latin, terra austrālis incōgnita (“unknown southern land”).
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... Oh my God, that's a thing.
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The emu's scientific name is Dromaius novaehollandiae.
And if you take away the censoring, that's what SNAFU stands for.
I know truth can be stranger than fiction, but wow.
Alternatehistory.com forums ASB (Alien Space Bat) section has a string on Emu's gaining sophoncy it does not go well for Australians.
Huh. I had already read about the raven experiment, but I'm not sure what the Emu war refers to.
Not only did we fight an actual war with emu, but we lost.
This was emu-sing.
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Which is why when you want a species removed from a place you bring in HUNTERS, not the frigging army.
i heard about the emu war on wikipedia. The Australian military tried quelling an over population of emus in the 1930's with some success. The military found out however just how annoying emus can be considering they could run as fast as motor vehicles of the period. The fact that the Australian military let this get out and the fact they actually admitted defeat still puts a smile on my face to this day.
If they feel that strongly about the barren interior of Australia, let them have it, I say. Goodness knows that even magically-augmented humans probably would have a difficult time surviving there!
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The description of Outside Fate definitely describes Sidhood though, as it's a part of the Magic ecosystem rather than the Exalted version of Outside Fate which refers to out-of-context entities like Fae. But yeah Wallflower was pretty much born to be the subject of an Exalted crossover where she's a Chosen of Secrets. She's basically The Mask incarnate.
The official casualty list for the Emu War is "less than 20 emu" on one side and "15,000 bullets, dignity" on the other.
Also for those curious, blackfeather is a rank, not a name. Groups of emu are lead by a sort of alpha whose head feathers darken to black. It's basically like saying "chief" or other such tribal titles.
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... Now I want to see an Emu playable race in a video game, something like an MMO.
Could be worse. Could have been the Cassowaries. Darn birds are basically the closest thing to Velociraptor alive today.