Humans could also befriend both the Arxur and the Federation, then mediate a peaceful solution between the two of them. The Federation might not want to admit it, but they could use at least one friendly omnivorous species on their side.

sinnerwhokeepstrying said:
Humans could also befriend both the Arxur and the Federation, then mediate a peaceful solution between the two of them. The Federation might not want to admit it, but they could use at least one friendly omnivorous species on their side.

The problems are that, on the Arxur side, MEGA SPACE NAZIS won their world war conflict by taking advantage of what the Federation did.

On the Federation side, the hatred propagated and sustained by the Kolshians and Farsul keep the hatred going.

Superb!

Also, "don't read the comments if you haven't read the story yet" continues to be extremely sound advice...

ekhidna said:
Lil bit of spoilers

People have not read the story and might want to bro

ekhidna said:
The problems are that, on the Arxur side, MEGA SPACE NAZIS won their world war conflict by taking advantage of what the Federation did.

On the Federation side, the hatred propagated and sustained by the Kolshians and Farsul keep the hatred going.

From what I understand of the story, based on narrations of chapters I've followed along with on YouTube on up to Chapter 98, the Federation sent their cure for "predator disease" to the Arxur first, claiming it'd be a cure for their hunger. But, the Arxur, a strictly carnivorous species, found the cure almost killed them, even eliminated their food source. So, in order to survive, they bred themselves for aggression and turned to preying on the Federation. Basically, if it hadn't been for the Arxur having such a negative reaction to the Federation's "cure," and if the Arxur hadn't been ahead of humans in that regard, humans would likely have gotten the cure first; and the Federation would've likely eliminated perhaps their best chance at having omnivorous friends, not to mention what humans would've lost. So, it seems to me, in the realm of the Nature of Predators story anyway, that humans owe the Arxur that much. Perhaps there are some humans that could help the Arxur find better ways of approaching their matter with the Federation?

And, as for the Federation, if the Kolshians and the Farsul are the source of the hatred, the best thing to do might be to establish human friendshipping-mission colonies on their home worlds.

Today I learned that The Nature of Predators is being released as an official paperback book. This is a dangerous thing, since now I am tempted to buy it.

Edit: I caved and bought it. No regrets.

dashomsg said:
Today I learned that The Nature of Predators is being released as an official paperback book. This is a dangerous thing, since now I am tempted to buy it.

Wait, what? This is amazing! I just found this story by accident a few days ago, and now your telling me it get's a physical release?! Count me in! Do we know any details yet, as to where it launches?

j0j0nas said:
Wait, what? This is amazing! I just found this story by accident a few days ago, and now your telling me it get's a physical release?! Count me in! Do we know any details yet, as to where it launches?

We do

j0j0nas said:
Wait, what? This is amazing! I just found this story by accident a few days ago, and now your telling me it get's a physical release?! Count me in! Do we know any details yet, as to where it launches?

goodusername said:
We do

The book released two days ago and is available immediately. It goes up to Chapter 40 (revised to fix continuity errors) plus has several side stories that were only available on Patreon. I believe there’s projected to be around 5 or so more books in the series by the time it’s done.

Nice to see more or less official art of Venlil.

ekhidna said:
Spoilers.

Hey how about keep the spoilers talk to a minimum, yeah? Some of us didn't know this existed and wanted to read this.

dashomsg said:
Today I learned that The Nature of Predators is being released as an official paperback book. This is a dangerous thing, since now I am tempted to buy it.

Now one can only hope it will be released as an official audiobook too!

irishwolf89 said:
Now one can only hope it will be released as an official audiobook too!

There are already audio books on youtube.

I actually have the book, and i have to say that it is a VERY good read! I really suggest reading it!

sinnerwhokeepstrying said:
From what I understand of the story, based on narrations of chapters I've followed along with on YouTube on up to Chapter 98, the Federation sent their cure for "predator disease" to the Arxur first, claiming it'd be a cure for their hunger. But, the Arxur, a strictly carnivorous species, found the cure almost killed them, even eliminated their food source. So, in order to survive, they bred themselves for aggression and turned to preying on the Federation. Basically, if it hadn't been for the Arxur having such a negative reaction to the Federation's "cure," and if the Arxur hadn't been ahead of humans in that regard, humans would likely have gotten the cure first; and the Federation would've likely eliminated perhaps their best chance at having omnivorous friends, not to mention what humans would've lost. So, it seems to me, in the realm of the Nature of Predators story anyway, that humans owe the Arxur that much. Perhaps there are some humans that could help the Arxur find better ways of approaching their matter with the Federation?

And, as for the Federation, if the Kolshians and the Farsul are the source of the hatred, the best thing to do might be to establish human friendshipping-mission colonies on their home worlds.

Yep. And WW3'd themselves into aggresion.