RE: The Kra'Vak

You wrote: 

>run from, why are they so surprised at Human behavior?  Why is human 
space  >their only expansion axis?  Maybe it's not, but this could be 
the first >real Threat they have come up against.  And they are 
worried.  Not only are >they different looking, they're lunatics.  
Maybe the KV think that a show >of force will settle the Humans down.  
Or maybe they're gearing up for >genocide...

I don't know why, I just know it is.  Otherwise going to the time and 
effort to smack away at the Humans doesn't make sense.	Quite likely 
they are hemmed in by Savasku on one or more sides, and possibly by 
other aliens in other directions.  I think  that the storyline as it 
stands is the beginning of the first real attacks, into NAC and NSL 
space.	Probing attacks continue all along Human space.  The attacks 
are currently the sort of show of force that Kra'Vak clans engage in to 
determine the strength of a potential opponent--like Bighorn sheep 
engaging in head butting.  If the power diffential is too great, the 
weaker clan is absorbed, otherwise they negotiate an end to the 
conflict.  

John