They got steadily more impressive over time. The stats are really going to depend on where, exactly, you draw the Protectors from Niven's continuity.

But he lacked the necessary imagination to grasp human art as a concept. It didn't fit anywhere into his mental framework. Human Protectors might be a different story, in fact, Brennan seemed to retain quite a bit of his human-breeder imagination as a Protector, to judge by his asteroid-base.īut the true Pak Protector in that story, though he could figure out how to duplicate the fusion rocket engine of Brennan's ship simply by examining it for an hour or two, could not comprehend representative art. The IQ boost might be in line, but there would need to be something restricting it, because for all their brilliance, Pak Protectors are not particularly imaginative. It's just that you have to give him (or it) that reason on his terms. Give a Protector a rational reason not to kill you, in terms of his 'protect my gene-line' imperative, and he'll happily let you live. There's no indication that they particularly enjoy either fighting or killing for their own sake, it's a side effect of the 'remove threats to bloodline' programming and they are quite 'controlled' about it. I don't know that a Protector (at least a Pak or Human Protector) necessarily has true Bloodlust Disad. *'Hard enough to turn a copper knife' max ST for a large knife is 16, so max thrusting damage for a protector with such a knife would be 7 This is literally done in ten minutes with a copy of Characters, it could probably be improved. *Protectors who have no living relatives usually suicide, but sometimes the whole species can be substituted for the family.

Obsession (protect genetic line) (6-) (-20)*ĭependency (Tree-of-Life root) (Daily, very common on Pak, Rare elsewhere)ĭependents (Less than 25%, Loved ones, Almost All the Time) (-60)* Intolerance (anyone not related to them in at least a broad fashion) (-10) Offhand, I'd say something like:ĭiscriminatory Smell (emotion sense +50%) (23) I'm amazed there doesn't appear to be a GURPS writeup for a Pak Protector template from Larry Niven's Known Space anywhere, but I haven't been able to find one.

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