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Protector is a hard, hard sci-fi novel by Larry Niven first published in 1973.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It introduces one of the most important but rarely seen races in the Known Space series: the Pak, who are distant ancestors of humanity, as well as the creators of the Ringworld. The first half of the novel deals with a badly botched First Contact, and the second with the adventures of the titular Protector, the Super Strong, hyper-intelligent adult form of the Pak.The first part of the novel is an expansion and partial re-write of the short story "The Adults" that was first published in 1967. The second part is a reworking of "Down in Flames", an un-used outline for a Beowulf Shaeffer story that would have served as a grand finale for Known Space and would have destroyed much of the setting. note Niven wrote Ringworld and decided he wasn't quite done with Known Space yet after all, so the second part of Protector is not as destructive to the setting as "Down in Flames" would have been.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The Pak. They spend their childhood and adult lives as barely-intelligent tree-dwellers, and then, upon reaching old age, begin craving the Tree-of-Life, which transforms them into an extremely intelligent, extremely strong Protector form. The Protector has no free will, because it must constantly protect its descendants at the cost of everyone else, or else it involuntarily starves itself. Only, it's not Bizarre Alien Biology, since they're Homo Habilis or their direct ancestors. Also the Tree-of-Life, which is like a sweet potato, only it has a symbiotic virus living in it. The virus alters the Pak DNA to cause the Protector stage, and it works for humans, more or less. | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The first part of the novel is the same plot as "The Adults" with some small changes, but the ending is different and considerably more complicated. It also changes the names of two of the belters who crew the Blue Ox, including making one of them a woman. | |
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Acrofatic: A minor Belter character is said to be so fat he couldn't support himself on Earth. He moves as easily as anyone else in zero-G. | |
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Artificial Gravity: The first Pak ship has a gravity polarizer, which cannot really create gravity but can somewhat "redirect" existing gravitational fields, acting as a hang glider. Brennan, the human Protector reverse-engineers it and creates Artificial Gravity proper. | |
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