The road not taken by harry turtledove6/12/2023 A human gift shop on their homeworld has a display of "authentic" Bulrathi armor, except the experienced protagonist immediately assumes it's fake, since it covers far too much body for the Honor Before Reason Bulrathi. In terms of clothing, they generally wear skirts (sometimes metal skirts), since their tough hides can handle almost anything an unarmed human can do to them. They are also stated to be scavengers, preferring to eat something that has been dead for days. In fact, their obsession with direct combat leads to them developing a method to defeat the Silicoids' natural Deflector Shields (most races just shoot at them) using their high-pitched voices in a manner similar to how a singer can shatter a crystal glass with her voice. They also have falsetto voices, making them good tenors (when they're not ripping your head off). In the books, the Bulrathi are a Proud Warrior Race Guy culture, who value hand-to-hand (or paw, if you want to be technical) combat over standard warfare. Lukyanenko did expand on their culture, considering the version he used from the first Master of Orion, which didn't provide much background.The Bulrathi in the Line of Delirium series were more-or-less directly lifted from the Master of Orion series.Isaac Asimov's story "No Connection" features a civilization of bears which evolved on a postapocaliptic Earth.The Humanx Commonwealth features the Ulru-Ujurrians, who look like large bears.The Helmsman Saga features a civilization of walking bears (expies of Russia).The Lindauzi in The Wild Boy-although there were mentions of panther or dog-like features, bear-like is the most common description, the cover illustration clearly shows it.They're noted for being good-humored and good-natured Gentle Giants. Dickson's Spacepaw and Spacial Delivery, the Dilbians are described as intelligent grizzly bears. When Geary first sends a visual message, he smiles, only to be told by an "expert" that what he's just done is show them his predatory teeth ( Truth in Television, most animal "smiles" are, in fact, warnings to stay away). or a fellow prey who might infringe on their pastures. Specifically, the "bear-cows" may be herbivores, but they will attack any race they perceive to be a predator.In Guardian, many humans back home are disgruntled that they fought against living teddy bears - and with the help of aliens that are revolting mixtures of wolf and spider in appearance.In John Hemry's The Lost Fleet book Invincible, they reconstruct the aliens that attacked them on sight and to Geary's surprise they were attacked by "teddy bears." They discover the creatures are herbivores and decide that the "teddy" is inapproriate, so they dub them "bear-cows".Beary Funny, assuming you aren't too fond of your sanity. Dickson's Hoka series are intelligent teddy bears. The Hokas in Poul Anderson and Gordon R. These are either an extremely good natured race, or for ironic effect, extremely nasty. Also consider there is a concept in astrobiology about the distances at which planets could feasibly support life called the '''Goldilocks''' Zone.Ī special group of them are not just any old bear, but explicitly teddy bears. Beary Funny, Beary Friendly and Bears Are Bad News are all possible.Īnother possible reason for the presence of this trope is the apparent association between bears and stars, based on the famous Ursa Major/Ursa Minor (Greater Bear/Smaller Bear respectively) constellations. Indeed, any furry humanoid creature that doesn't explicitly appear to be some other kind of creature will appear more or less ursine. If you want to create an Intelligent Gerbil alien from one, you don't have to alter its appearance much, since they can already take bipedal form and are effectively Humanoid Aliens already (to note the most obvious similarities besides the partial bipedalism, they are plantigrade note Walk with the soles of their feet to the ground, unlike most other large mammals, which walk on their toes omnivores).
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