Kzin - Kzin The Kzin (plural Kzinti) are a very warlike and bloodthirsty race of Felinoid aliens in Larry Niven's Known Space series. (They also appeared in The Slaver Weapon, an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series.) Kzinti are thought to have influenced the creation of the similarily Felinoid Kilrathi, the primary antagonists of the popular Wing Commander video game series of early-to-mid-nineties. Whether this is true or not, a small part of Wing Commander II takes place in a region of space called the Niven Sector. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers Kzin are evolved from a plains hunting cat, stole their current space-faring technology, and bred (most) of their own females into sub-sapience. They are larger than most humans, they have large membrane ears, a cylndrical torso.
Kdatlyno - Niven's Known Space universe. Kdatlyno are primiarily know for their touch sculpture, radar vision and for being a race subjugated by the ferocious, warlike Kzin. They are a physically large and powerful bipedel species with muscular build and thick hides growing up to eight feet tall. Kdatlyno are one of the few sentient races that can physically intimidate an adult Kzin. There is at least one instance documented of them being used as elite Imperial Guards for the Patriarch, presumably due to both their great strength and their uninvolvement in Kzin imperial court mischief..
Known Space - (and with references to events some billion years ago). Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers In the process, humankind encounters several intelligent alien species, including: the Kzinti, belligerent giant cat-like aliens with whom the humans fight several brutal wars – mostly offstage until the release of the Man-Kzin Wars short-story collections, largely by other authors; the Outsiders, low-temperature fragile aliens that cruise deep space and trade information, introducing FTL travel to humans; Pierson's Puppeteers, a technologically advanced race of three-legged, two-headed creatures descended from herd animals, and noted for their cowardice; the Pak, interstellar relatives of humanity whose life-cycle evidences the purpose of human old age; the Kdatlyno, a species who see by way of sonar and create sculptures intended to be "felt", seen by Kdatlyno, felt by Humans and licked by Puppeteers;.
Space opera - sees one episode of interstellar conflict. Others, like Samuel R. Delany in Nova, refer to mythological concepts. In his 1965 story Space Opera, Jack Vance parodied the genre by writing about an interstellar operatic company which brought culture to deprived worlds. Sample space opera backgrounds Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda Babylon 5 Barsoom (Mars) series by Edgar Rice Burroughs Battlestar Galactica Berserker series by Fred Saberhagen Blake's 7 Cities in Flight series by James Blish Culture series by Iain M. Banks Dies Irea trilogy by Brian Stableford Dune by Frank Herbert - Galactic Empire Farscape Firefly television series Gundam Humanx Commonwealth series by Alan Dean Foster Hyperion Cantos of Dan Simmons (Hyperion and sequels) Known Space series of Larry Niven, and its spin-off Man-Kzin Wars. Lensman series of E. E. Smith (possibly the.
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