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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 343
Message ID: 41
#41, RE: First Dates and Firefights
Posted by Nathan on Jun-17-13 at 11:45 AM
In response to message #29
>What's going -on- over there?

Nothing as bad as it sounds. In original canon, even all the way back to MOSPEADA, the Invid are basically these slug-things, individually subsapient but linked by a hive mind. The original 'Queen Invid', the Regis, was concerned with 'evolving' them into a better format (via psychic woo-woo), and eventually settled on imitation humans, complete with sapience.

A passing reference in UF whose address I can't currently recall indicates that Ariel has replaced the Regis, so Kana-chan's dad was presumably speaking specifically about humanoid, sapient Invid and the upgrade process that creates them from subsapient types like gurab (which are, BTW, one of the lower Invid castes, for those that had that reference slip by).

While I'm on the subject, though, am I right to conjecture that Korgu -

> "Korgu is much the same, regrettably," Lyneh added. "He's been
> all but clawing the walls, ever since the first aftershocks got
> through the mindlink. Lieutenant Mao has him currently confined to the
> gymnasium, so he doesn't do -too- much property damage."

- is a gurab or other nonsapient Invid with a particular affinity for 'big sister Kaname'?

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