: What? You pooped your pants??
Gentlemen call them trousers.
: According to the terminals the Fl'ickta and the Ticks were just wildlife. The
: Fl'ickta were encouraged or at least tolerated by the original occupants
: because they helped keep the waterways cleared of obstructions. Enslaving
: Fl'ickta and Ticks would be the equivalent of trying to enslave monkeys
: and birds. Fl'ickta as draft animals? The Pfhor were too advanced a
: culture to need that. Why bother with them? It would seem a waste of their
: time and resources to destroy every Fl'ickta, Tick, Potatoanus and Grendle
: Beast after enslaving what they really came for, the S'pht.
: The Pfhor garrison was not there the whole time battling these creatures ever
: since they enslaved the S'pht. They had returned only recently to find the
: secrets and possibly a weapon. The wildlife was a nuisance to them sure,
: but in my stupid opinion hardly worth the resources of a wartime economy
: to eradicate them all.
Hmm, definitely some good points. This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for.
And I think, as Todd mentioned, that Bungie did an about face in regard to their non-sentient characters in M2 and MI. We see the wasps replaced by drones in M2 and MI, although the Hulks disappear as well. Though silly, I think they overall worked in M1 as a legitimate component of the game.
Though I did like how the Return to Marathon team brought them back and how they were employed in that scenario...
