![]() ![]() But after centuries of being used as soldiers, warfare becomes the main focus of human culture. At first, humans are a sentient species that is better at violence than others, but it doesn’t define our society. Flanderization: Invoked by the Weave towards humans. ![]() It's plainly obvious that this is a situation that could lead to dire consequences for the galaxy. Moreover, the aliens are all better at engineering, medicine and other things than humans, so they essentially have no method of sustaining themselves in peacetime and none of the Weave seems to care. This, naturally, doesn't sit too well with them, especially since it was them and their capacity for violence that won the war. Without the threat of being conquered by their old enemy, the races of the Weave become far less tolerant of humanity and pretty much shunt them off to the side to be ignored. Dude, Where's My Respect?: Near the end of the trilogy, the Amplitur and their vassals have more or less surrendered, thereby ending the millennia-long war in favor of the Weave.Trained Earth military personnel, especially special-operations types, are essentially incarnate demigods of death by alien standards. The average unskilled couch-potato human is more than a match for their trained soldiers. Death World: Earth is considered a Death World by the aliens, whose worlds all have low gravity, low tectonics, practically no axial tilt (preventing violent weather) and few true predators.The Molitar are strong but dim the Chirinaldo are tough but slow and are more often heavy weapons specialists rather than hand-to-hand fighters. The Big Guy: Each side in the Weave-Amplitur conflict has their own fighting race that's much bigger than the rest: the Molitar for the Amplitur and the Chirinaldo for the Weave.Solution-pale-Overseer: "Should I desire to do so I would not require the assistance of another life-form to aid in dismembering you." They are quite capable of causing pain with their psychic abilities, and then there's this gem from the interrogation of a captured Massood officer near the end of A Call to Arms: Beware the Nice Ones: For all their politeness, the Amplitur are not afraid to get vicious if it suits the needs of the Purpose.Lots of the members of the Weave are very worried about who the humans will find to fight next once the Amplitur are defeated, since humans like to fight. ![]() Their response is "we're sure some new greater purpose will then be revealed." Several races have asked the Amplitur what is supposed to happen once they have won and everyone is a part of their "Purpose".And Then What?: Both sides of the war have this problem.When they found that Earth was so different from all other known inhabited worlds (both geologically and sociologically), they decided to dispense with the usual plan of landing in the planetary capital city and announcing themselves, since it seemed there was no single planetary capital, and try and abduct a single human specimen for study. Aliens in Cardiff: The first scouting sortie in A Call to Arms encounters as its first human contact a musician in a fishing boat off the coast of Belize.Those that won't or can't join, most regretfully, will have to be eliminated. They also want to unite the galaxy under their banner - by mind controlling everybody else into joining their Purpose. Affably Evil: The Amplitur are unfailingly polite, cultured, and even gentle.Unfortunately, humans are feared by the other sympathetic alien species precisely for those qualities and the uncomfortable question comes up that if they win the war, what will happen to human/alien relations then? So, the discovery of humanity marks a critical turning point in their war to remain free. They're also the only species with the ability to resist the Psychic Powers of the Amplitur. ![]() The scouts discover that Earth's inhabitants are faster, stronger, tougher, and fiercer than every other sapient species, bar none. The Weave are fighting a desperate war against the Amplitur, who have Mind Control abilities and have brainwashed entire species into being happy slaves. In the near future, Earth is visited by scouts from an alliance of alien races called the Weave. It consists of A Call to Arms (1991), The False Mirror (1992), and The Spoils of War (1993). The Damned is a science fiction trilogy by Alan Dean Foster. ![]()
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