Felaryan humans

That description seems a bit off. For all conventional intents and purposes they are technologically advanced, their problem is that said advancement doesn't seem to have been as effective as one might imagine due to human faults. Like if you armed a troop of girl scouts with the strongest assault rifles, they may still get mauled in their sleep by a bear on their camping trip not because the technology was faulty, but because they themselves did not evaluate and neutralize the threat fast enough. Now when nagas are on the loose, you can't waste time picking your nose. Even if you have the most advanced hardware at your side, it becomes completely useless if you never see the threat coming. This reiterates the excellent point mentioned earlier; survival skills are the best tool available for any prey species to get by on. Simple knowledge of what the threats are and how to avoid them as opposed to how to defeat them are the best protection anyone would have.

Just adding another question, but would a human armed with only a medium-calibur pistol and one magazine for it be able to escape from a naga on the hunt? If he ran and shot, maybe at the face, would it slow her down enough for the human to find a place to hide or crawl under?

Depends where he shot.

The eye? Likely. Even if it was not a permanent injury, it would be an annoyance and likely cause the Predator to keep its eye shut, maybe try to get what it thinks is a small bird or something out of its eye.

That works great, thanks.

If he's already shooting and running, the guy's already in a bad situation. Stealth is the first and best defense against the predators. The ability to remain hidden from the predators is better than the biggest gun a man can carry.

Tuc135 wrote:

If he's already shooting and running, the guy's already in a bad situation. Stealth is the first and best defense against the predators. The ability to remain hidden from the predators is better than the biggest gun a man can carry.

BFG9000.

Listen, listen, we keep talking about some hypothetical "guy", here. But no one asks what type of guy.

Is he stealthy and cunning, like Solid Snake? Absolutely badass like Jack Bauer? Or relatively normal? Because even the last one has many options for survival.

Tuc135 wrote:

If he's already shooting and running, the guy's already in a bad situation. Stealth is the first and best defense against the predators. The ability to remain hidden from the predators is better than the biggest gun a man can carry.

Stealth is overrated in Felarya, when preds can detect hidden people so easily. But then again, taking the girl scouts scenario into account, weapons are also overated.

A real survivor in Felarya uses both stealth and very powerful weapons.

and some good legs for running^^

Back to the whole human society thing.....

I believe that there is a good chance that two "groups" (like stone age and futuristic) would meld. For instance....

a stone age society led by a computar that is worshiped as a god....

Now that I think of it....that could be the only time period melding....

I don't think that's too likely: computers powerful enough to be like that would probably be on the bulky side, and i think any people who managed to establish themselves with that level of tech would attract the attention of the guardians, for the simple reason that they would be massively unbalancing. They're probably advanced enough to nuke the preds and shield themselves from the fallout, and I doubt the guardians would fail to notice that. And when they hit, they would probably outright destroy that city straight to the ground and leave little room for error in that matter. They certainly wouldn't leave behind an information source to allow it to rebuild itself.

Heh, the guardians wouldn't need to do so, some of the people are advanced enough to dig under the city and plant bombs at critical junctures which will destroy the city in theory

Byakugan01 wrote:

I don't think that's too likely: computers powerful enough to be like that would probably be on the bulky side, and i think any people who managed to establish themselves with that level of tech would attract the attention of the guardians, for the simple reason that they would be massively unbalancing. They're probably advanced enough to nuke the preds and shield themselves from the fallout, and I doubt the guardians would fail to notice that. And when they hit, they would probably outright destroy that city straight to the ground and leave little room for error in that matter. They certainly wouldn't leave behind an information source to allow it to rebuild itself.

But if the intelligence came from a dimensional tunnel like the Miratans, they'd be a recurring source of irritation.

The guardians would have to cross the tunnel into someone else's realm to get at them and that realm may have their own guardians...