Why havent the Pak killed the Kzinti?

Why havent the Pak made the Kzinti race extinct? Last we saw in Protector,
Roy Truesdale had recruited an army and was going to have Home on " a war
footing".

In the last Ringworld book, Louis Wu recalls Home being a "failed colony
world".

Okay, the Pak set up shop and Home seemed to be "lost" to the rest the Known
Space, which is a GOOD thing because Truesdale wants the Pak scouts to fight it
out at Home and not back on Earth where all of his family is. From Pak
/Truedales point of view, its a great plan.

OK, known space isnt over-run with Pak looking to weed us out, so we assume
Roy and his army won, and the Pak were killed. Now...isnt there a whole race of
carnivore cats called the Kzin that very well may wipe out humanity, and thus
the children of every Pak on Home? Each pak has relatives either on Home,
earth, elsewhere in Known Space or all THREE, whioch is a great motivator for
the Pak to go up against the Kzin. Remember, no free will in a Pak Protector:
Roy would see the Kzin coming at earth again and again, and would he risk some
silly pak breeders to defend in gene line? Nope, no way. Thus, Roy the Pak or
any other Pak in Known Space should be contemplating killing off all the Kzin,
just as Brennan Monster/Vandervecken killed the Martians.

So..how come an army of Pak arent on the way to the Kzin homeworld to kill
off every last Kzin, Kzinrett and cub?

Hmmm, I guess the answer would be "who says they arent?"

Schnick

On 25 Jan 2004 20:00:01 GMT, bertschnik RemoveThis @aol.com (BertSchnik) wrote:

 >
 >
 > Why havent the Pak made the Kzinti race extinct? Last we saw in Protector,
 >Roy Truesdale had recruited an army and was going to have Home on " a war
 >footing".
 >
 > In the last Ringworld book, Louis Wu recalls Home being a "failed colony
 >world".
 >
 > Okay, the Pak set up shop and Home seemed to be "lost" to the rest the Known
 >Space, which is a GOOD thing because Truesdale wants the Pak scouts to fight it
 >out at Home and not back on Earth where all of his family is. From Pak
 >/Truedales point of view, its a great plan.
 >
 > OK, known space isnt over-run with Pak looking to weed us out, so we assume
 >Roy and his army won, and the Pak were killed. Now...isnt there a whole race of
 >carnivore cats called the Kzin that very well may wipe out humanity, and thus
 >the children of every Pak on Home? Each pak has relatives either on Home,
 >earth, elsewhere in Known Space or all THREE, whioch is a great motivator for
 >the Pak to go up against the Kzin. Remember, no free will in a Pak Protector:
 >Roy would see the Kzin coming at earth again and again, and would he risk some
 >silly pak breeders to defend in gene line? Nope, no way. Thus, Roy the Pak or
 >any other Pak in Known Space should be contemplating killing off all the Kzin,
 >just as Brennan Monster/Vandervecken killed the Martians.
 >
 > So..how come an army of Pak arent on the way to the Kzin homeworld to kill
 >off every last Kzin, Kzinrett and cub?
 >
 > Hmmm, I guess the answer would be "who says they arent?"

Possibly, but if you look at the time line in "Tales of known Space",
you can see that "Vandervecken" (the second half of "Protector") takes
place around 2340, and "The Warriors" in 2360.

Having said that, the list of events for the 2300s is given as:

- Home colonized
- Brennan in Sol cometary halo
- War with Pak scout ships
- First flyby of BVS-1
- First contact with Kzinti
- First Man-Kzin War
- Institute of Knowledge on Jinx tailors boosterspice
- Home colony fails

You could argue that the Kzin were known about before the Home was
abandoned, but I would counter that with the reality of STL
communication between Earth and the colonies.

So I think it's quite possible that Brennan, Truesdale, Home and
therefore the Home Protectors had no knowledge of the Kzinti when they
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