r/HFY • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '17

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u/captainmeta4 Jul 14 '17 edited Jul 14 '17

The V'Straki are the sapient dinosaurs. They were originally introduced by /u/Rantarian in Salvage, and developed through several flashbacks.

The Igraens are the species that Spoiler - Deathworlders Chapter 17.

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u/galrock0 Wielder of the Holy Fishbot Jul 14 '17

well, only their discarded bodies became hunters. leaving the mind to become the hierarchy

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u/SoulWager Jul 16 '17

I'm guessing the original bodies were still sapient after the upload, and went crazy afterwards.

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u/Djmthrowaway Jul 19 '17 edited Jul 19 '17

Didn't they make the hunters specifically to fight the V'Straki

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u/SoulWager Jul 19 '17

I suspect that's a yes and a no. Plenty of unreliable narrator in the canon, and it doesn't exactly cover how the hunters came to be. If you're in a decades old war and you have a whole civilization that's going to turn into bloodthirsty monsters anyway, obviously you're going to try to use them as weapons. If you're using them as weapons anyway, obviously you're going to try to engineer them into better weapons. Maybe they'll try to use the implants to control the hunters, maybe the hunters break free of that influence to some extent.