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That does raise an interesting point, however. Do the military and the royal court speak two different languages? The military would for reasons of efficiency need to speak one language. Clan rivalries might mean that there are different clan ships, each speaking their clan's dialect, but...

I never said the entire race was evil. I did point out in a previous post several instances where we see the Cat's good side. What I was arguing against is the increasing sentiment that casts the victors as the bad guys all the time. If that is not what you were trying to say, that the Cat's...

Historical cohesion is more interesting, though.

I never said it was a direct corellation, but the two incidents, the Lusitania in particular, are well known in the public conciousness, and so could be used by way of comparison. When someone reads about the Anna Magdalena, they will most likely think "Oh, like the Lusitania." Just look at...

The Border Worlds duty uniform is the same as the Confed wartime duty uniform as seen in WC3.

How so? It was, if anything, a reference to the Lusitania or the Athena. These kind of things do happen in wartime. Just because all Kilrathi are not evil, doesn't mean there are not bloodthirsty Cats who would enjoy slaughtering "prey" like the Anna Magdalena. Like I said, the Cats were...

Okay, quite a lot of ground to cover here. First off, the Emperor and Thrak were more concerned about holding on to power than anything else. "I have to slaughter billions of innocents because otherwise I might not be in charge anymore" doesn't qualify as a justification. That is being...

It was supposed to be a joke, TC. It seems it fell flat.

That's basically what I just said, TC.

Emergency venting of the core (assuming it's a gaseous core), in case of a containment breach, in order to prevent a runaway reaction, perhaps?

Whether or not it is genetic is open to debate; I would tend to say it is more societal. I concede the point about the fuedal wars, however. My point about smacking them down still stands, however.

Then they either had to undergo a drastic change in their mindset, or they had to be smashed so thoroughly as to no longer be a threat to their neighbors. As it seems, both happened.

That's something we don't know. Somebody get on Confed Intel's case about this!

How many dreadnoughts did they construct? I only ever saw the one. (Thrak's)

Impossible for the Drakhri to be the Dralthi 1.5. The Dralthi II showed up in SM2.

There is no physical resemblance between the Jalthi and the Jalkehi. The Jalthi is wide and flat, while the Jalkehi is long and thin. They are two completely different fighters. As for the Dralthi-Drakhri, they are both medium fighters, with semi-circular wings. Other than that, no...

It seems to me that there is a difference in the Kilrathi language between the games and the books. Somehow it always seemed a little more Japanese-derived in the books, while in the games it seemed somewhat Middle-Eastern. Of course, what do I know, I'm no linguist. [Edited by Fenris on...

If you take a close look at the Cat ship designs, there are certain design constants during the 2654-2665 period, but often it has nothing to do with the name of the class. Example, the Gratha and the Jalkehi are both long, thin heavy fighters. They are very different ships, however...

In reference to WCP, this would tend to mean one of two things about the bug ships: 1, they have very, very strong hulls, which tends to raise the question of why we could often punch through armor with a single torp, or 2, they use a very wimpy power core. One is fairly scary, or would be if...

Nah, psych warfare's for the "brainiacs upstairs." I'd rather be a line animal. As for the war, probably the best summation of the human situation would be toward the end of the WC3 novel, during the bomb run on Kilrah. Blair is thinking things over, and finally decides why he has to drop...