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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 137630" data-attributes="member: 696">Woo-hoo!  One of my favorite sourcebooks!How about a chen?  A Garthling?  A Brother of the Night soldier?  A Tandu mystic warrior?  A Gubru triad?  A Jophur?Heh heh.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[edit]Just to explain, we're talking about David Brin's Uplift trilogies.  Uplift is the process of taking a smart animal and genetically modifying it so that it is sentient, as well as giving it the ability to manipulate objects, and so on.  (Whether the Patron race makes the new race a generalist, able to exist on its own, or turns it into a specialist class that requires help from its Patrons depends on the Patron race.)A chen is a male neochimp.  (Females are called chimmies, and the abbreviated name is chims for multiples.)  A Garthling is a partially Uplifted gorilla, illegally being modified on the planet Garth.  A Brother of the Night is a cross between a praying mantis and a manatee, whose patrons were dedicated to peace in the universe: the peace to be obtained by exterminating every other species.  A Tandu is a big insectoid, whose race is dedicated to war; they're so good at it that several of their wars have gone as far as causing the extinction of several races.  Gubrus are flightless birds, the majority of which are servile neuters, but whose nobility consists of mating triads (female, male type #1, male type #2), combining caution, propriety and ambition.  Jophurs are big piles of sentient vegetation, pretty much stacks of doughnuts that combine to be a thinking being (I forget which of the two races were the ambitious ones...).</blockquote>

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