Re: A quick thought on Scorpion Men

From: donald_at_np6KgCyBJSTPsqMV8WGGQ0zEQy-9VgKpJli053koFEh0GyTMUzPkOSIT-vsIxE5nOXCRP
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:44:15 GMT


In message <006601c7b367$ad5c01c0$6406a8c0_at_Camelot> "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" writes:

>I think the Scorps are just planning on gorging on sentient beings for a few
>years, then unleashing a host of (semi)intelligent Scorpionmen to eat
>everything in the world - a plague of locusts in scorpion form... But this
>is their everyday plan, when they can just get around to it. Long-range
>planning doesn't come easy to the scorps. Like broos, they suffer from one
>of the many forms of CCADD (Chaos-Caused Attention Deficit Disorder). Even
>Queens are probably susceptible to this. So they spend a little while
>makeing great grandiose planns and... oooh, dinner is served!

My impression is that only the queens do even that much. The scorpionmen may have a human head but that doesn't mean a human brain. Anything more than the instincts of "kill", "eat" and "obey queen" is beyond them.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

           

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