Challenge #01766-D305: The Dog in the Fight
So in the Human are the Space Orcs, it looks like we are on a level 3.5-4 Deathworld. This makes us fairly B.A.. However there are references to creatures from level six Deathworlds. What happens when they meet? Do humans feel threatened by them, are humans just the perfect mix of craziness and inability to die that the level six deathworlders are just scaredy cats, do they replace the humans, or have humans finally found an alien species they can play rough with. -- Aer
The Vorax had always been a problem. They went where they wanted, took what they wanted, and didn't leave much behind. Only the most destructive of weaponry or the widest of gulfs stopped them from going further.
It didn't take long for Galactic Society to realise that there was one species that the Vorax preferred to avoid. Humans.
The humans were only level three point five deathworlders, but no-one could guess that by how they behaved. Stories proliferated and exaggerated as they went. Humans seemed to be far frailer than the Vorax, but they didn't fight like they were. This was a species that would use its own vessels to immolate the enemy. A species who made weapons that rendered any and all contested resources into poison. A species that could pull victory out of the mouth of defeat. And then kick defeat's teeth in.
It took two years for the Vorax to recognise how dangerous the humans were, and routinely avoid them.
It took a further century for either side to start talking with each other. Another fifty years for peace to began cropping up in strange little corners. And bit by bit, the humans and the Vorax began to get along. Solutions began to crop up. Fast-growing crops, resilient equipment, means by which the Vorax could obtain what they needed without causing further damage to other peoples.
The Vorax were not entirely welcomed into Galactic Society. Their evolution was even rougher than humanity's. But humans didn't mind, in the long run.
Humans were always the sort to find their way around the rules.
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