tnuctipun造句

• Tnuctipun were small, arboreal pack predators, averaging about 3 & ndash; 4 feet long.
• Two billion years before humans evolved, the galaxy was ruled by the Thrintun, who telepathically enslaved other species, including the Tnuctipun.
• The Kzinti capture the crew and open the looted stasis box, which is revealed to be a Tnuctipun stasis box, not Thrintun.
• Her life is spared when the device, which is intelligent ( and loyal to its long-extinct Tnuctipun masters ), begins to speak.
• This immunity to the Thrintun psychic abilities also allowed them to survive the mass-suicide command used at the end of the Tnuctipun-Thrintun war.
• The box contains a Tnuctipun weapon which is capable of morphing into several devices, none of which is deemed useful by the Kzinti as a war weapon.
• They found that Peter had discovered a remnant of the Tnuctipun, a black hole powered hyperdrive that could also be used as a powerful Hawking radiation beam weapon.
• Charles Stross was inspired by the Thrintun / Tnuctipun relationship from " World of Ptavvs " when developing the relationship between the githyanki and illithids for " Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ".
• In the Known Space universe, the Bandersnatchi were created by the Tnuctipun during the Thrintun empire ( ~ 1.5 billion BCE ) as a food source with a nearly irresistible taste to the predatory Thrintun.
• While the Thrintun believed that the Bandersnatchi possessed no intelligence, they were actually sentient beings resistant to their telepathic mind control abilities and were used by the Tnuctipun to spy on the Thrintun until a slave rebellion.
• A recent Man-Kzin Wars short story-" Teacher's Pet " by Matthew Joseph Harrington, in " Man-Kzin Wars XI "-claimed that the Tnuctipun are responsible for creating the Pak Protectors.
• In 1968, Niven worked with Norman Spinrad to draft a story outline entitled " Down In Flames ", in which much of the history of Known Space is revealed to be a hoax, and in which it is revealed that the Kzin are the Tnuctipun.
• The Tnuctipun invented most of the technologies from that era, including stage trees ( trees containing solid rocket fuel in their trunks, originally used as cheap rocket boosters, which in the present era of the Known Space universe had evolved to seed themselves across star systems ), sunflowers ( flowers with integral parabolic mirrors that can focus sunlight to deadly effect ), and stasis fields ( a time dilation device ).