Reviewer: angelus288 Signed
Date: July 23 2022
Title: Chapter 1: Alliance Day Preparations
I do have a few questions about the setting.
1. The Zetans, they all look human but with green skin and pointed elf-like ears right? And they are taller than humans? What's their average height?
2. Are there any other aliens other than the Zetans and Cephelos?
3. There's a 50 to 1 gender difference? Damn, does that mean the Zetan women would seek human men because Zetan men are rare?
4. Just how many Zetans are in favor of humans being equals and how many in favor of humans being pets?
Author's Response: I'll do my best.
1. Zetans look human with green skin and pointed ears, the average Zetan female is between six and seven feet tall, with a few on the outer distributions, you could possibly encounter a naturally eight foot tall Zetan woman but it would be extremely rare. Zetan males are around normal human height.
2. The story will explore this in some detail later, but there were other space civilizations the Zetans knew about but they were all quickly wiped out by the Cephalos, who were previously unknown to the Zetans, basically they appeared and wiped out all of the Zetans neighbors in a few days, the Zetans only survived because they discovered the squid weakness to humans in time to save themselves. There are some refugees from the dead civilizations out outlying Zetan worlds, but probably none on Earth or Zeta Prime.
3. Zetans typically share or "rent" a male, with high ranking ones such as the empress having a personal consort, they're also not averse to using cloning tech or artificial wombs for reproduction, it's all up to personal choice when a Zetan wants to start a family. That said a species with more abundant males is intriguing to them, and a lot of them like the idea of having their own which would have been difficult before.
4. Probably about 40% of their population wholly and truly sees humans as equals, maybe even loves humans a little too much, another 40% is taking a pragmatic approach and wants a dominant relationship with humanity but at the same time knows they need them for the war, these types probably like to imagine they'd be "kind" to humans they shrank even if they would never see them as equals. The "shrink 'em all right now!" party probably has about 10% support, with the remaining 10% of the population being the type of people who mark "no opinion" on surveys.