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"A Heart of Genetic Blasphemy"

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[ Prior article concealed due to stalking (18 USC §2261A) and threats (18 USC §875) to menace the author.
Such threats consistent with persons attempting to block publication and by bizarre delusional claims. The author has a genetic disability, is not dressed up or wearing makeup to look supernatural, and writes about vampires because they resemble the pretty side of a horrible and real disease (Marfan's Sydnrome). ]

"The Sanguine are not *vampires* exactly.

That someone is so stupid they assume all *vampires* kill people, or murder people, or are emotional monsters driven by their animal instinct to kill... is kind of funny and quaint in a 4 year old child perhaps. In an adult, it is a sign of serious mental disturbance, and a reflection on their own anger and resentment with a propensity to violence. If there is someone for the audience to relate with, it is certianly the Sanguine.

The Sanguine are war machines, true, but they are very old very mature and usually quite stable solitary war machines - having free will unlike any of the later species in the progression. The kind you hide in an old folks home watching Wheel of Fortune, making rude comments and stealing the occassional pair of underwear off the clothes line like an irresponsible anime grandfather.

To mistake that is to prove you don't know our writing style, product, or anything about Beyond War. The whole story is based on smart, mature, and very ethical monsters. People, in groups, are the ignorant violent irrational antagonists of this story. Not the lone immortals or their propensity for kittens."

Sanguine and Cats:
Because there are perverts out there who think things no normal person would, I find myself again explaining - gun in hand - why Sanguine and cats relate.

People can be arrogant, ignorant, hateful, self-centered, and abusive. Downright hard to live with. Cats, on the other hand, are generally not too irrational or screwy. Perhaps a bit high-strung, but to an immortal being, the cat has about 10,000 years on the monkey in the philosophy department.

Ergo, when a Sanguine thinks about destroying a planet and wiping out all the people that live there, one of the common (proverbs) that come to mind is, "We could kill you all, but no one would be left to feed your cats." This means, simply, that the Sanguine have more respect for the cat than for the people living all over the planet, and for the cat's sake - not the relevant ape dna floating about - they tend to scale their responses down a notch. Because, after all, the cat probably didn't do anything wrong. The same cannot be said of the humanoid life on the planet.

This aside, itself, goes to show just how sick the minds of some people are - and why we consider it unsafe to let those people near children. As well as why our game is restricted to an age level of 21 years - to ensure some maturity and the protection of language in the atmosphere of the game to deter vulgarity and abuse fit only for a school child.

It's not that the Sanguine are without empathy or emotion. They just frequently do not like certain people. Granted 10,000 years of not giving a damn, they don't tend to hide their opinions like some animals do, in the hope of getting along. Failing to understand that this is personal, not a character trait, is proof that many humanoids and short-lived creatures simply fail to qualify as "intelligent life" in the Sanguine experience. Some Sanguine are, in fact, quite understanding - practicing forms of philosophy like Zen Buddhism - but as a rule - philosophy and effort to "stay in character" with creatures who only live 70 years is not always a performance that an irritated Sanguine can maintain. That they often try, is more respect than most deserve.

This world view - alone - sets them apart from most of the modern "animal-like vampires" and "emotionally arrested angst-ridden teen vampires" popular in Western fantasy/fiction. There is, simply, no comparison. Fewer words, more meaning. A sigh... perhaps. That is all the warning they usually give a victim. Since the Sanguine do not need to feed in order to survive (though this is not known to all Sanguine), murder is usually the least thought on their mind.

In that respect... they are very much like cats.
And a little like Hemmingway.

They come over to borrow a cup of sugar, give a season's greeting, and read your DNA like a dime store novel, because you are the most interesting periodical on the shelf at the time. Occassionally, they will even write an op-ed when it suits them, but since the Universe is full of critics, they tend to keep their publications small in circulation and often under a pen name. I am - of course, talking about genetically altering the entire species on a planet, but unless you understand subtlety in language and metaphors, it may not sink in what was just said. It is that age we hope to keep off the network, because they make the most annoying Sanguine. Turning your species into galactic grafitti - well... now that's violence.