From: Harald Smith 617 726-2172 (SMITHH@A1.MGH.HARVARD.EDU)
Date: Thu 01 Sep 1994 - 09:51:00 EEST
One possibility, mentioned also by Sandy, is that the morocanth really use darkness to great effect. They travel and herd by night when missile fire is useless and then retreat to large encampments by day to sleep and protect the herds. I picture them using the circular type of defense used by wagon trains to fend off Indian raids in the American West. Set up large mobile shields, darkwalls, flame retardant blankets (i.e. with Extinguish matrices in place), and make maximum use of rough ground, scrub brush, hills, etc. to keep raiders back. Then at night, the morocanth hunters range out using their superior night vision to track those who did raid them to steal their foes herds.
Sandy mentioned most of the assorted animals. I definitely see a range of hawks here: vrok hawk, sun hawk, etc. Of course, there are ravens scavenging too. And what of the Thunderbird? Is that a special species or just a spirit without any allies? I would think a nice grey bird (an owl species perhaps) with heavy wings might be interesting here.
--Harald
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