Another odd little concept...
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 3:27 am
That's mostly for way-down-the-road stuff, but what if Mentalor's species was actually a kind of species-wide hunting and poaching-centric society? I don't mean this in the Predator-esque "killing or enslaving people is part of our rite of passage" way, but more in the sort of grossly offensive and super-distinguished Colonial White Hunter sense. Mentalor would actually be a sort of straggler who got stuck on Paradise after a catastrophic ship malfunction, so he would've tried to flex his culturally reinforced superiority complex on the locals. The Wardens shut him up way back when Before the Riot.
If you're lucky enough to exert proper deference or sound remotely interesting in his presence, you're worthy of being considered as an individual. If you haven't, then you're game. If he likes the cut of your species' jib and you end up being a decent example of its physical and mental capabilities, he might decide to try hunting you down. As far as he's concerned, all he has to worry about is how he's going to convince the local savages that he really is the superior being onboard Paradise, and how many skulls or hides his eventually current tech-compatible ancient wreck of a spaceship is going to hold.
I guess that we'd later learn that in a weird Douglas Adams sort of way, Earth just happens to be in the outer rim of Mentalor's culturally-defined galaxy-wide hunting preserve. We haven't been poached or hunted to extinction by his species because we're not challenging enough, even with our dragons, immortals, cybernetically augmented people and various other freaks.
We're not worth the bother, but then again, that far-off alien empire is severely lacking in terms of preserved human heads adorning alien hunting lodges... So maybe once he wakes up and gets tired of pushing against Paradise's fairly resolute hardasses, he'd try his luck on Earth.
I figure he'd be really condescending, basically Rendell without the control fantasies and delusions. "I've just crowned myself as your king, now kneel or start running." Textbook Loki School of Wanting to Rule but Not Really Giving a Fuck.
If he manages to take anything, even if it's just Hope or America, and only for a few months, he'd be content to just sit there, being treated like some sort of Roman emperor cranked up to eleven, and would let things be, generally. He'd only get violent when an effective resistance would build up. Basically same as ever, except we'd be stuck with daily Imperial TV public addresses and a forced cult of personality that would make Kim Jong-Il wet his pants.
If you're lucky enough to exert proper deference or sound remotely interesting in his presence, you're worthy of being considered as an individual. If you haven't, then you're game. If he likes the cut of your species' jib and you end up being a decent example of its physical and mental capabilities, he might decide to try hunting you down. As far as he's concerned, all he has to worry about is how he's going to convince the local savages that he really is the superior being onboard Paradise, and how many skulls or hides his eventually current tech-compatible ancient wreck of a spaceship is going to hold.
I guess that we'd later learn that in a weird Douglas Adams sort of way, Earth just happens to be in the outer rim of Mentalor's culturally-defined galaxy-wide hunting preserve. We haven't been poached or hunted to extinction by his species because we're not challenging enough, even with our dragons, immortals, cybernetically augmented people and various other freaks.
We're not worth the bother, but then again, that far-off alien empire is severely lacking in terms of preserved human heads adorning alien hunting lodges... So maybe once he wakes up and gets tired of pushing against Paradise's fairly resolute hardasses, he'd try his luck on Earth.
I figure he'd be really condescending, basically Rendell without the control fantasies and delusions. "I've just crowned myself as your king, now kneel or start running." Textbook Loki School of Wanting to Rule but Not Really Giving a Fuck.
If he manages to take anything, even if it's just Hope or America, and only for a few months, he'd be content to just sit there, being treated like some sort of Roman emperor cranked up to eleven, and would let things be, generally. He'd only get violent when an effective resistance would build up. Basically same as ever, except we'd be stuck with daily Imperial TV public addresses and a forced cult of personality that would make Kim Jong-Il wet his pants.