Chanur Novels: Difference between revisions

* [[Enemy Mine]]: The kif trilogy consists of Pyanfar maneuvering with one kif warlord in hopes of staving off another who's even more genocidal.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Every species tends to views even its closest allies with the darkest suspicion. Justified, given the mindsets are often too different to allow interests to line up.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: ''And how.'' Pages at a time are devoted to characters explaining or musing on the latest double-cross or convolution. Every single faction in the series, and there are several per species, has multiple plans- some of them mutually contradictory- all going on at the same time.

* [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]]: During [[Hyperspace|intersystem jumps]] the hani become paralyzed and their minds enter a dream-like state; after coming out of jump they're groggy and shed horribly. Humans have to be sedated during jump, otherwise they [[Brown Note|suffer permanent psychological/mental damage from the experience]]. If the stsho experience jump without sedation they die from shock. Out of the oxygen breathing species, only the kif (and all life from their homeworld) seem to be completely unaffected by the experience. [[Starfish Aliens|As for the methane breathing species, who knows]].