Protector (1973) (edit title/settings)

Shelfari edited the characters of Protector Tuesday, October 12, 2010.

• Edited the description of Jack Brennan: The 'Brennan Monster'. Jack Brennan is a 'Belter' who is at the right age to transition to a 'Protector', and thus eats the roots he finds on the Outsider's spaceship. This turns him into a 'Pak', but one that retains his human identity to a large extent.Theextent.The Brennan Monster dedicates the next 200 years to the saving of mankind from the maraudng (mother) Pak species.

Cortical Stack in a Sleeve edited the characters of Protector Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

• Removed a character: Kobold

Cortical Stack in a Sleeve edited the characters of Protector Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

• Edited the description of Phssthpok: A Pak Protector. Phssthpok had lost all of his children in a war on the Pak homeworld, and needed to find meaning for his life, or he would die. After spending much time in the homeworld's library, he found the story of the Pak expedition to find a habitable planet in the galactic arms. He worked out that the soil of Earth lacked thallium oxide, and mounted a rescue mission aboard a ramship 33,000 years ago, arriving in the Solar System in 2125 AD.

Cortical Stack in a Sleeve edited the characters of Protector Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

• Edited the description of Roy Truesdale: Roy Truesdale is a descendant of Jack Brennan, and the hero in the final stages of the story.

Cortical Stack in a Sleeve edited the characters of Protector Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

• Edited the description of Pak: A species called Pak lives on a planet near the Milky Way core. The species has three main stages of development: Child, Breeder, Protector. A Pak is born, and matures into a Breeder, at which point he and she may bear children. Breeders are not particularly intelligent. Around 40 years of age, the root of the Tree-of-Life plant begins to smell delicious to all Breeders, and they eat it and metamorphose into the Protector stage via a virus that lives in the plant. A Protector's joints expand to give his muscles a greater moment arm, his skin wrinkles into a tough armor, and his nails turn into retractile claws. A second heart develops near the groin, the mouth fuses into a beak, and all sexual characteristics disappear. The most important change is that the brain expands, giving a Protector a tremendous intellect. A Protector has no motivation other than the preservation of his bloodline, and to that end the Pak homeworld is never free from war, since all Protectors are constantly trying to ensure their progeny's survival at the expense of everyone else. If a Protector has no children left, he no longer feels the urge to eat and dies unless he can adopt the entire Pak race and work towards their benefit.

Cortical Stack in a Sleeve edited the characters of Protector Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

• Edited the description of Alice: A Belter, but originally a Flatlander from Earth. Alice is Roy Truesdale's girlfriend, and the mother of his child.

Cortical Stack in a Sleeve edited the characters of Protector Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Edited the description of Jack Brennan: The 'Brennan Monster'. Jack Brennan is a 'Belter' who is at the right age to transition to a 'Protector', and thus eats the roots he finds on the Outsider's spaceship. This turns him into a 'Pak', but one that retains his human identity to a large extent.The Brennan Monster dedicates the next 200 years to the saving of mankind from the maraudng (mother) Pak species.
• marked the description of Jack Brennan as a spoiler

Shelfari edited the characters of Protector Wednesday, April 7, 2010.

• Added a character: Jack Brennan
• Added a character: Roy Truesdale
• Added a character: Nick Sohl
• Added a character: Beller
• Added a character: Alice
• Added a character: Phssthpok
• Added a character: Einar Nilsson
• Added a character: Kobold
• Added a character: Lucas Garner
• Added a character: Luke
• Added a character: Tina
• Added a character: Vandervecken
• Added a character: Sol
• Added a character: Nate
• Added a character: Vinnie
• Added a character: Lawrence St. John Mcgee
• Added a character: Robinson
• Added a character: Shaeffer
• Added a character: Pak