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Quinn’s aliens plurk reminded me of Alan Dean Foster’s big sci fi setting
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The main thing being the Humans and the Thranx
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The Thranx were a race of bug people descended from eusocial hives
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And they are humanity’s closest allies
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Because around first contact both species were getting FUCKED by a third alien civilization
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And they talk a lot about how humans were in awe of like
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Thranx just had the most incredible pigmentations. Each one of them looks like a work of art
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Humans were like “what the fuck were all brown. You look so much cooler than us!”
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And the Thranx were like “we’re all buying season tickets to cirque du soleil
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haha
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Humans can move in INCREDIBLE ways what the fuck. You’re so much cooler than us!”
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Oh that's cute they're both each other's biggest hype man
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humans and giant ant men and they're just, best friends
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Two WILDLY different aliens and both of them think the other looks SO cool
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The book that introduced the setting, Nor Crystal Tears, is about a guy who’s trying to get to the bottom of a government conspiracy to hide the existence of aliens
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But it’s set on the Thranx homeworld and the aliens are humans
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There was a bit in one of the other books where human and thranx governments were just starting to work together
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Aw, I like that. Interspecies friendship.
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And as an experiment they were letting human kids play with Thranx larva
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And the humans were explaining the rules of “Cowboys and Indians”
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But from what the human kids were saying it was extremely obvious that, in this distant future year, no one wants to be the cowboys because they’re the BAD GUYS
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Cruelly taking away the lands of the Native Americans
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I think they did actually use the word Indians but in mr Foster’s defense this IS a book from the early 80s
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humans and thranx just willsmith.jpg at each other like LOOK HOW COOL THESE GUYS ARE
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On galactic maps they eventually stopped drawing human planets and Thranx planets as separate spaces
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And just labeled the whole region as “the humanx alliance”
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i've only heard about this from osmosis but it sounds so cool
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also that cowboys bit is very nice