> > --
> > The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan
> > <jcowan@...>
> > free-range chickens (except they have
http://www.reutershealth.com
> > teeth, arms instead of wings and
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> > dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso
>
> Sounds these folks could easier be described as resembling chubby
> Or do they come complete with fuzzy chickenish yellow down?
>
> Andreas
>
>
The reference to free range chickens partly involves personality:
chickens are a lot nastier than people realize who haven't watched
them.
Imperials have actual feathers. The modern urban populations are pretty
boring looking, with matte feathers generally in shades of brown and
tan. There are populations who retain different colorations and an
original tendency toward iridescence: Ppeqapp, a former Legionaire who
lives on Cherani Station, is sort of pigeon colored: shades of gray
with iridescent purple display areas.
Ppeqapp's name tends to be pronounced 'Fferaff' by the Shayanans, who
tend to not use the frontmost and rearmost articulation points that
occur in proper Imperial. He jokes that they also tend to get the
vowels in his name slightly wrong, so none of the sounds in his name
come out right in Jouevyaix.
--
Elyse Grasso
The World of Cherani Station
www.data-raptors.com/cherani/index.html
Cherani Tradespeech
www.data-raptors.com/cherani/tradespeech.html