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  worlorn thrint 991015
Thrint tore Inspiration from the minds of their slaves, but never consumed the brains as Mind Flayers do.
the Thrint are known to Githyanki and Githzerai, as well as the Mitheraneans, Atheleni, and the few remaining Jaenshi.
Thrint enslavement attack = flat save with no modifiers: roll a 13 or higher on a d20 or your mind is enslaved.
www.sonic.net /~ricercar/worlorn/thrint.html   (518 words)

  
  Thrint -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Their original name was unknown before the setting of the novella, but traces of their culture had been discovered and they were simply referred to as the slavers.
The Thrint eat and excrete through the same orifice, and have a single faceted eye.
The Thrintun settled huge amounts of the galaxy, seeding many planets with basic life forms (created for them by one of their controlled species, the (Click link for more info and facts about Tnuctip) Tnuctipun) to use as food sources.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thrint.htm   (392 words)

  
 Thrint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thrintun were destroyed about 2 billion years before the human era by the Tnuctip and one of their own devices created to amplify a telepathic suicide command on the galactic scope (which they called Suicide Night).
Niven is inconsistent about the actual size of a Thrint: in World of Ptavvs, the character Kzanol is about half the height of a human, whereas later fiction portrays Thrints as about 8 feet high.
Thrintun are carnivorous; for their own health and safety they learn at an early age to endure their constant, ravenous hunger rather than suffering from sickness due to overeating.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thrint   (586 words)

  
 Thrint Tutorial
Thrint builds temporally deterministic segments by appending CDG nodes to the current segment until the jitter exceeds a certain threshold (set to ### cycles with –j###, default value of 3000 cycles), at which point a new segment is begun.
Thrint creates two data files (one for jitter, one for the segment execution profile) for each host procedure in the program, e.g.
Thrint needs to be extended to properly evaluate the timing of guest loops which have been split.
www.cesr.ncsu.edu /projects/sti/AlphaTutorial/AlphaTutorial.html   (1265 words)

  
 tnuctipun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Two billion years before humans evolved the galaxy was ruled by the Thrint, who telepathically enslaved other species.
The war escalated until the Thrint, rather than accept defeat, employed a device that amplified the sphere of influence of a Thrint's mind control to encompass the entire galaxy.
The Thrint are then believed to have evolved into the Grog, intelligent telepathic aliens who, incapable of locomotion, are dependant on their prey to survive.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /tnuctipun.html   (260 words)

  
 Intel Mac mini: Take Apart Guide (RAM & HD) | Applefritter
Submitted by thrint on March 23, 2006 - 6:52pm.
None of this takes away from the excellent HOWTO you have here as it was able to get me to a point where I could figure out the differences in my Mini.
That was brilliant, and I would never have been able to do this RAM install without it.
www.applefritter.com /Mac_Mini_Take_Apart_Guide   (5672 words)

  
 Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch Walkthrough - IGN FAQs
Bandersnatchi were also designed not to mutate, and have survived unchanged from the fall of the Thrint Empire more than a billion and a half years ago to the present day.
Thrint telepathy was augmented by thought-amplifiers contained in helmets worn by the Thrint.
It is believed that the entire Tnuctipun race was destroyed by the Thrint thought amplifier that ended the Tnuctipun slave rebellion and annihilated all sentient life in the Milky Way Galaxy more than one and one-half billion years ago.
faqs.ign.com /articles/381/381203p1.html   (7281 words)

  
 Tnuctip - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The true nature of some of their inventions became clear: Bandersnatchi, thought to be non-sentient livestock, were in fact intelligent, created as spies immune to telepathy.
Sun Flowers turned against their masters and burned Thrint homes to the ground.
The war escalated until the Thrintun, rather than accept defeat, employed a device that amplified the sphere of influence of a Thrint's mind control to encompass the entire galaxy.
open-encyclopedia.com /Tnuctip   (199 words)

  
 worlorn thrint 991015
Thrint tore Inspiration from the minds of their slaves, but never consumed the brains as Mind Flayers do.
the Thrint are known to Githyanki and Githzerai, as well as the Mitheraneans, Atheleni, and the few remaining Jaenshi.
Thrint enslavement attack = flat save with no modifiers: roll a 13 or higher on a d20 or your mind is enslaved.
www.gadzikowski.com /worlorn/thrint.html   (518 words)

  
 Crystals of Power: Overlord War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
They were a highly advanced culture, with technology that was so amazing that they were forced to exile themselves in another pocket of space and time in order to keep it from the hands of foolish humans, or as they called us, Terrans.
Here is a token of our gratitude." Thrint tossed a bottle to me, filled with pills like the one I had just taken.
"Thrint was killed, sacrificing himself so that the three of us could survive to propose this alliance.
www.dyingstar.com /chronicles/crys010.html   (1465 words)

  
 My Rats
A brief update (2002.08.16): Thrint was over 3 years old and as finicky as ever when he finally passed on.
Thrint and K'zin are over 2 years old now and I have only now finally posted one lousey picture of them.
The K'zin and Thrint are alien races from science fiction novels written by Larry Niven.
www-personal.umich.edu /~bclee/myrats.html   (9267 words)

  
 With Apologies to Larry Niven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A Thrint is a member of a race of telepaths that ran amok in our galaxy over a billion years ago.
Needless to say when a Thrint is born with no or limited telepathic powers it is A Bad Thing.
In the story, a Thrint that was preserved in a stasis field for a billion years (time does not pass inside a stasis field, hence the name) is released on Earth.
www.stevec.us /HTML/ptavvis.html   (511 words)

  
 Cronologie di Psicopolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the last decades before the end of their rule, a thrint named Plorn's tnuctip slaves produce antigravity, ruining the need for Stage Trees to launch material, and precipitating a major economic crash.
As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the surviving Thrint build a giant telepathic Amplifier designed to order all sentients in the Galaxy to commit suicide on "Last Day".
The Thrint Dnivotopun and his family are released from Stasis by Ulf Markham.
www.psicopolis.com /timeline/lniventimeline.htm   (5391 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Using his native ability a single Thrint can normally control 20-30 Ptavvs (Slave/non-Thrint) within a 50 km radius, independently or simultaneously - at least on modestly populated worlds with nominal telepathic noise.
In empty space, a lone Thrint once paralyzed a human at a range of more than 1.6 million kms.
Even the emotional outburst of a Thrint may unintentioanlly cripple the minds of those around them.
hubcap.clemson.edu /~jservey/TimeLords/aliens3.txt   (556 words)

  
 The Tnuctipun Plot
Part 2 consists of a number of elaborations on the plot, Part 3 is a free-for-all of various alternative ideas along the same lines.
The Tnuctipun must be aware of the dangers presented by Thrint that survived the great war in stasis.
Indeed, one of their strategies was to force Thrint warships into stasis, thus taking them out of the fight during battles.
www.snark.freeserve.co.uk /niven/tnuctipunplot.html   (2506 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Known Space: Data Display   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The telepathic ability of Thrint that allows them to control other protoplasmic creatures.
The Power usually develops in about two Thrintun years, and its another year before a Thrint can effectively give orders.
A Thrint who does not develop the Power is known as a Ptavv.
www.oinc.net /knownspace/enc/display.php?830   (56 words)

  
 "Known Space" : Larry Niven Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Larry is probably best known for his "Known Space" future history which to date contains over 30 short stories and novels which intermingle into a complex timeline dating from several billion years into prehistory into the fantastic future world of 3200 and beyond.
Alien races have dominated Known Space for eons, beginning with the Thrintun, extinct a billion years ago with the exception of one deadly Thrint held in a stasis field (one of LN's numerous terminological coups) and released with deadly effect in his first novel, "World of Ptavvs" (1966).
Millions of years closer to the present, humanity's ancestors, the Pak, spread their seed through the local arm of the Galaxy.
www.larryniven.org /biography.htm   (1178 words)

  
 World of the Ptavvs | Social Concerns/Themes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
World of Ptavvs deals with the contact between men of several centuries hence and Kzanol, an alien thrint who had buried himself in a stasis field millions of years ago and is only now excavated.
The thrints possessed telepathic powers that enabled them to control other minds and with the aid of amplification helmets they established an interstellar Slaver Empire.
Kzanol plans to do the same thing on Earth, which he regards as a world of ptavvs, the thrint word for slaves.
www.enotes.com /world-ptavvs-qn/62167/print   (107 words)

  
 Science Fiction Timeline Site . . . Marc Carlson's KNOWN SPACE Chronology . . .
The Thrint, later known as the "Slavers", rule the Galaxy (This is described as anywhere from 1.5 to 3 Billion years ago).
In the last decades before the end of their rule, the slaves of a Thrint named Plorn produce antigravity, ruining the need for Stage Trees to launch material, and precipitating a major economic crash ("World of Ptavvs", "A Relic of Empire").
As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the surviving Thrint build a giant telepathic Amplifier designed to order all sentients in the Galaxy to commit suicide on "Last Day" ("World of Ptavvs", MKW3 "The Asteroid Queen").
www.chronology.org /niven/ic_timeline.html   (8087 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Three Books of Known Space: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy.
Now he was on the loose, and telepath Larry Greenberg knew everything he was thinking.
Thrints lived to plunder and enslave lesser planets.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345404483?v=glance   (2330 words)

  
 The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf Paperback Science Fiction and Fantasy Books: N
Niven, Larry Tales of Known Space Ballantine, 1975 (24563) 1st printing, slight wear, near F. Definitive Niven short story collection involving Known Space themes.
Niven, Larry Tales of Known Space Ballantine, 1975 (25836) Reprint, near F. Niven, Larry World of Ptavvs Ballantine,1966 (U2328) 1st ed, near F. A alien Slaver Thrint is found on Earth and there's trouble...
Niven, Larry World of Ptavvs Ballantine,1971 (02333) 2nd printing, slight wear, near F. With second cover, by the spectacularly Bosch-like Michael McInnerney.
www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/weirdpapern.html   (5204 words)

  
 The Unified Field Crossover History of the Universe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
3 billion BC: Thrints form the Galactic Empire.
1.5 billion BC: Thrints experience rebellion from Triuctip slaves; Thrint Empire collapses.
1.4 billion, 999 thousand, 999 BC: Kzanol the Thrint experiences ship failure, crashes into a moon of Neptune and sends it into independent orbit around our sun as Pluto.
www.geocities.com /utherworld/timeshredder1.html   (1687 words)

  
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