[FH] KraVak predecessors

What's the consensus of the List:
a) have the KraVak been in human-space before?
b) what are KV burial customs, if any?

I'm thinking that it would be more interesting--more "texture", so to
speak--to give those earthlike planets ruins, burial mounds etc--also
having them terraformed by someone else before we got there would explain why
we have so many convenient planets available.

> On 1/11/02 6:46 PM, "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> a) have the KraVak been in human-space before?

I would say no.

> b) what are KV burial customs, if any?

I would guess that they are an individual thing, and very private, since
burial is usually an emotionally charged event, and given their psychiology,
having a group there could be bad.

> > b) what are KV burial customs, if any?

Sorry, I meant it more as "what would an archaeologist find, 1000 years
later?" Buried as individuals or in groups? Either way, what were the details?
a. formal tombs eg pyramids
b. barrows/mounds
c. simple graves d. burned areas from cremations
e. split/boiled/gnawed bones (ritual cannibalism)
f. mummified/preserved
g. sunk in swamps/bogs
h. scattered bones (left out for scavengers) i. other

I'd say a clan type barrows/mounds given their  psychology, more than
likely
pre- prepared but the actual burial done alone in privet by the eldest
clan member. Not unlike allot of Central Asian nomadic hunter gatherer groups.

> On 1/11/02 8:04 PM, "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> Sorry, I meant it more as "what would an archaeologist find, 1000

Ah...

> Buried as individuals or in groups?

I'd say individuals

> Either way, what were the details?

I would guess that the dead are not ritualized in the same way as many human
societies do. Unmarked graves; out of sight, out of mind.

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> >What's the consensus of the List:

I know I suggested this as part of the Full Metal Cthulhu discussion (or maybe
"Full Metal Aaarrrrgh!" would be better?) but I really don't
care for the idea of introducing Yet Another Alien Race.   I think
ancient KV ruins would be sufficient.

G'day,

> What's the consensus of the List:

Well Derek and I have always joked that the "preds" in the movies were the
advance guard;)

> I'm thinking that it would be more interesting--more "texture", so to

Good thought, you can imagine at KV high command... "Heavens we turn our backs
for 3 seconds and these blasted pasty skinned things just come out of nowhere
and take over all our hard work, what they think nice planets grow on trees,
well we'd better go do something about it!";)

Cheers

G'day again,

> Sorry, I meant it more as "what would an archaeologist find, 1000

Quite seriously maybe nothing. What's to say they want to keep bits of them at
all? OK that would make for boring "ruins" I guess;)

> i. other

How about mass graves, in that they go to the "dying grounds" and don't come
back? Sort of like the old idea of elephant graveyards (though that idea has
recently gone out of fashion in the biological world). Also gives lots of room
for humans to COMPLETELY misunderstand and just put them down to vicious
brutes who kill each other in mass carnage... thus leaving all those bones in
one heap...

Cheers