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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2010, 04:08:09 PM »
After thinking back I have reached my conclusion:
either
1) K.A. Applegate wasn't thinking when she wrote that line in the book

2)Ellimist chronicles was ghost written and the ghost writer knew next to nothing about the animorphs timeline.
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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2010, 04:11:45 PM »
First is more likely, because all the Chronicles were KAA-written. I like the idea of the Skrit Na being sort of a galactic constant, though.

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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2010, 04:24:07 PM »
All chronicles, megamorphs, 1-24, 26, 32, 53, and 54 were KA written. The first idea is valid, though.


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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2010, 07:40:33 PM »
I wouldn't even say that she wasn't thinking. It's stated multiple times in the books that different species acheive technology at different rates. Maybe the Skrit Na are just extremely slow at developing new things.
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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #19 on: April 27, 2010, 08:46:56 PM »
but yeah, maybe they have no reason to advance. or....
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 .... maybe there's a darker hidden secret....
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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2010, 11:26:46 AM »
They never really struck me as a "darker hidden secret" type of species, though. Just as kind of useless and always present.

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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2010, 08:12:39 PM »
My theory is they never really created anything themselves to begin with, and are pure scavengers, who probably got their space-faring tech from some other alien species that crash-landed on their planet long ago, and they figured out how to use it/modify it (read: forced the crash-landed people to teach them) and have been roaming the galaxy looking for free stuff to scavenge from other people ever since, and each time they take something from a planet, they take people from that planet who can teach them how to use it. That's just how it always seemed to me, anyway.

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Re: Skrit Na
« Reply #22 on: July 24, 2010, 02:50:00 AM »
I think that the possibility pointed out earlier, that they simply don't value progress by our definition, is a simple and elegant one. Out-of-story, I think it is a pretty good bit of humor on KA's part; when we hear about crop circles, anal probes and cow abductions from all these people and rational people are going "come on, aliens developed interplanetary travel to come all the way here, not make contact with us, and do these inscrutable things? I'm not buying it," KA is giving it her only bit of smiling nod with a knowing wink, I thought it was amusing.
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