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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1744513" data-attributes="member: 6929">This is indeed a complicated issue. Some thoughts:Slaadi are tilted towards evil; their race seems to progress that way (the Death Slaad is supposed to be a corruption, but there's no equivalent good corruption version). Blame it on some sneaky 'loths if you will.Slaadi are embodiments of chaos, not evil. Thus, they don't show up as evil to detection or smiting abilities; however, their actions may contain slightly more evil than your daily recommended allowance.Slaadi are chaotic. It's quite possible that they did sit down and set up a Chaos Cow Cartel one day. Here are selected excerpts from the manager's diary.Day 1: Cows grazing happily. Stud bull looks amorous; perhaps we shall have calves by spring.Day 2: Decided grass would look better a delicate shade of pink. Cowpoke Klrhaxl disagreed. We compromised by painting it with the blood from his severed leg. Went home on amicable terms.Day 6: The islands are simply beautiful, although one of the trees tried to eat me. Haven't a care in the world.Day 725: Found a number of quadrupedal skeletons in a distant part of Limbo. Most perplexing; it appears they were fenced in, and didn't have the ability to just climb or 'port out. Some outsider's idea of a prison for a strange enemy?Slaadi don't generally plan to go out and wreak massive destruction. They may well do evil things, but they only do so when the opportunity presents itself, and to a certain extent, increasing the spread of chaos is their thing, so why not infect people you come across? They live in boundless chaos; casualties are to be expected, and there's no guarantee that more slaadi will pop out of the chaos, so infecting others really is a survival tactic.On the topic of formian borg, I think that was originally my idea - basically, the formians want slaves, but they don't want to be cruel to them - just make them contribute to society. Their society, which the slaves are now a part of. The borg have a definite tendency towards evil once you introduce the Queen, but a borg ship without their standard-issue blow-up Queen assembled will just bumble merrily along, occasionally assimilating people into a more efficiant civilisation (look at First Contact - there were plenty more people on Borg Earth that would never have been born under the Federation) and ignoring the rest until they get sneak-attacked.There's my thoughts.</blockquote>

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