![]() The regular Pak survived but none of them transitioned to Protector. He knows that there are wild Pak out on the fringes of the galaxy, remnants of a failed attempt to colonize. Phssthpok has survived by sublimating his drives into a desire to save other Pak. Normally, Protectors without descendants would stop eating and die. ![]() ![]() His entire line was either sterilized or killed outright by an enemy fusion strike. Their planet has been embroiled in an endless war for lebensraum ever since the rise of the Pak. Pak are incapable of resisting the urge to expand: they want more descendants and more territory. Their elders, Protectors, are a caste of super-intelligent beings who are nonetheless enslaved by brute instinct. ![]() The Pak are a humanoid species native to an Earthlike world at the core of the Milky Way. This bold project yields unexpected results. ![]() As was the custom in those days, it is a standalone.Ģ125: Phssthpok the Pak arrives in the Solar System, having travelled tens of thousands of light-years in hopes of rescuing the descendants of Pak colonists from themselves. Larry Niven’s 1973 hard SF fix-up Protector takes place in his Known Space setting. ![]()
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