Timeline for Does the existence of Prawn weapons suggest other hostile races in the District 9 universe?
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| Oct 1, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | Valorum | @TheMathemagician - This was explicitly covered by the director's interview below. Christopher has become a leadership caste prawn because of the absence of other leadership caste prawns. Without a directing mind they're argumentative, undirected and prone to poor decision-making. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 13:17 | answer | added | user56550 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 18:57 | answer | added | PMar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 18:29 | comment | added | hobbs | @SGR and it actually happened. The unplanned landing in the middle of nowhere and having to wait for rescue, that is. I don't think they had to fend off any wildlife, as it happened, but it was distinctly possible. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 16:20 | answer | added | Schwern | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 14:03 | answer | added | Barafu Albino | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | Luaan | @TheMathemagician True. It might be that they can be dominated by a hive-mind, but when the control is lost, they are actually capable of independent intelligent operation. Of course, if they lived their whole life under direct control, they might not be in the best shape to take care of their interstellar spaceship regardless of their raw intelligence :) | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 13:30 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | Imagine if they had been dumped over Austrailia. The weapons might have allowed them to survive the things there that just wants to kill everything. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 13:21 | comment | added | Durakken | @Luaan Yep. Dinosaurs definitely need weapons used against them... | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 11:37 | comment | added | TheMathemagician | "Christopher" and his son don't appear to have hive-minds. They are extremely intelligent and independent thinkers and take some pains to conceal the fact. I don't think the prawns are being completely honest with us. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 11:15 | comment | added | Luaan | Well, you're coming to explore and potentially colonise a world that has life similar to yours. Are you seriously not going to bring scout vehicles? Are you not going to give them weapons to defend themselves against local fauna (regardless of whether you expect them to be intelligent or not?). Wild animals are quite dangerous, you know :) | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 8:23 | comment | added | Mick | @LegoStormtroopr - The Prawns didn't mind. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 7:06 | comment | added | SGR | @CBredlow As I understand it, that was so that in case they landed in Siberia they could fend off Polar Bears until rescue arrived. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 22:46 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/781626113638461440 | ||
| Sep 29, 2016 at 22:01 | comment | added | user20155 | You can't just call aliens Prawns, that a really offensive anti-Poleepkwa slur. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 19:46 | vote | accept | Cradle2theGabe | ||
| Sep 29, 2016 at 18:41 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 21 | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 18:29 | answer | added | Justin Eiler | timeline score: 30 | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 18:27 | answer | added | Durakken | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 18:05 | comment | added | Broots Waymb | This also assumes that all prawns that have ever existed are in the same hive mind. Now, I haven't seen the movie since it was in theaters, but I wouldn't bet against there being multiple 'colonies' of prawn (if not on Earth, then on their home planet). | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 18:00 | comment | added | CBredlow | You say that, but earth cosmonauts did bring guns in the Soyuz | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 17:57 | history | asked | Cradle2theGabe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |