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6/29/2025, 1:44:47 PM
>>95977170
4/4
A couple other major points forced by being obligate carnivores.
1. Long campaigns and sieges are a nightmare and a half. You can't keep enough meat fresh enough and you can't hunt enough game. Even if the kyn don't have a cultural taboo against cannibalism, they still just aren't going to be able to sustain long periods of campaigning in a foreign field where you can't rely on finding food. Though on the other hand kyn cities also can't possibly provision a lot of food either, even with salted meats/jerky/etc., so if some clever kyn general can figure out the logistics of supplying their troops, then the cities will fold practically instantly by Earth standards. No Siege of Ceuta here.
2. The concentration of females in cities and their effective numbers advantage might mean that any large standing armies that DID develop in kyn history might actually be female-based and led. One can imagine a female city-army enforcing its will on male hunter-herders, or going to war against another city for all the usual reasons. "Warrior" could be a male tradition (battles between hunter-herders), but actual soldiery is a female tradition.
This pic is someone's fetish, I just know it.
3. The lack of ability to store food for a long time also means that kyn can't do long voyages of exploration unless they're also doubling as fishing/whaling trips. Again, an inability to store enough food for an extended period means that much of the kyn homeworld (Kass) probably remained unexplored for a very long time. Months-long sea voyages on ships carrying dozens of crew are right out.
4/4
A couple other major points forced by being obligate carnivores.
1. Long campaigns and sieges are a nightmare and a half. You can't keep enough meat fresh enough and you can't hunt enough game. Even if the kyn don't have a cultural taboo against cannibalism, they still just aren't going to be able to sustain long periods of campaigning in a foreign field where you can't rely on finding food. Though on the other hand kyn cities also can't possibly provision a lot of food either, even with salted meats/jerky/etc., so if some clever kyn general can figure out the logistics of supplying their troops, then the cities will fold practically instantly by Earth standards. No Siege of Ceuta here.
2. The concentration of females in cities and their effective numbers advantage might mean that any large standing armies that DID develop in kyn history might actually be female-based and led. One can imagine a female city-army enforcing its will on male hunter-herders, or going to war against another city for all the usual reasons. "Warrior" could be a male tradition (battles between hunter-herders), but actual soldiery is a female tradition.
This pic is someone's fetish, I just know it.
3. The lack of ability to store food for a long time also means that kyn can't do long voyages of exploration unless they're also doubling as fishing/whaling trips. Again, an inability to store enough food for an extended period means that much of the kyn homeworld (Kass) probably remained unexplored for a very long time. Months-long sea voyages on ships carrying dozens of crew are right out.
6/21/2025, 3:29:41 AM
>>95917497
A couple other major points forced by being obligate carnivores.
1. Long campaigns and sieges are a nightmare and a half. You can't keep enough meat fresh enough and you can't hunt enough game. Even if the kyn don't have a cultural taboo against cannibalism, they still just aren't going to be able to sustain long periods of campaigning in a foreign field where you can't rely on finding food. Though on the other hand kyn cities also can't possibly provision a lot of food either, even with salted meats/jerky/etc., so if some clever kyn general can figure out the logistics of supplying their troops, then the cities will fold practically instantly by Earth standards. No Siege of Ceuta here.
2. The concentration of females in cities and their effective numbers advantage might mean that any large standing armies that DID develop in kyn history might actually be female-based and led. One can imagine a female city-army enforcing its will on male hunter-herders, or going to war against another city for all the usual reasons. "Warrior" could be a male tradition (battles between hunter-herders), but actual soldiery is a female tradition.
This pic is someone's fetish, I just know it.
3. The lack of ability to store food for a long time also means that kyn can't do long voyages of exploration unless they're also doubling as fishing/whaling trips. Again, an inability to store enough food for an extended period means that much of the kyn homeworld (Kass) probably remained unexplored for a very long time. Months-long sea voyages on ships carrying dozens of crew are right out.
A couple other major points forced by being obligate carnivores.
1. Long campaigns and sieges are a nightmare and a half. You can't keep enough meat fresh enough and you can't hunt enough game. Even if the kyn don't have a cultural taboo against cannibalism, they still just aren't going to be able to sustain long periods of campaigning in a foreign field where you can't rely on finding food. Though on the other hand kyn cities also can't possibly provision a lot of food either, even with salted meats/jerky/etc., so if some clever kyn general can figure out the logistics of supplying their troops, then the cities will fold practically instantly by Earth standards. No Siege of Ceuta here.
2. The concentration of females in cities and their effective numbers advantage might mean that any large standing armies that DID develop in kyn history might actually be female-based and led. One can imagine a female city-army enforcing its will on male hunter-herders, or going to war against another city for all the usual reasons. "Warrior" could be a male tradition (battles between hunter-herders), but actual soldiery is a female tradition.
This pic is someone's fetish, I just know it.
3. The lack of ability to store food for a long time also means that kyn can't do long voyages of exploration unless they're also doubling as fishing/whaling trips. Again, an inability to store enough food for an extended period means that much of the kyn homeworld (Kass) probably remained unexplored for a very long time. Months-long sea voyages on ships carrying dozens of crew are right out.
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