Inspired by the David Brin books of his Uplift saga<br /><br />Background: there is a wide galactic society of races that all were found by another race and uplifted to sentience and then worked off a period of indentured servitude as a client race. centuries go by till the "wolfling" human race is discovered without having been uplifted by anyone (which greatly pisses off the more conservative of the races out there who very strongly feel that humans should be assigned to one of them and fulfill the standard client status) humans bumble along and begin to experiment with uplift of first chimps then dolphins which also pisses off some of the older races. Cause a parent custodian race gets to develope and control the evolution of the client and the client gets no say- so that these races really want to reassign humans, chimps, dolphins, and other earth animals to themselve (its one of the few things many of them can aggree upon amongst themselves) they're a great set of books though most of the glactics have tech that is way beyond SF while the humans are struggling at about SF tech and desparately trying to get more.<br /><br />Anyway why wouldn't humans experiment with chimps and dolphins and uplift? presuming they came to the Frontier with them? (I don't subscribe to the cannon AD explanation of human presence in the Frontier)<br />they could have taken a page from the eorna on that score.<br /><br />
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