Fleet fliers, shephards of the heavens
So Barker named these three eyed flying sophonts hláka because of course he did; and he made them not only inscrutable and irrational but also unreliable and incapable of communicating their values and inner world, because of course he did — I've referred to this a couple of times, insha'allah I'll pull up the Blue Room listserv file where he explains how many human cultures are incapable of ever understanding each other, with the takeaway being "and why would i want to understand some dirty tribesman, and what do i care if they don't understand my sophistication", and also condescension that they have the right to be primitive and proud if they please to. I hope I'm not exaggerating, in my memory it was brazen and dismissive. The peccant point being, why should he make up comprehensible aliens? Then players might want to play them, instead of this nice legionary of the Emperor's Own XXIV Child Molestor Regiment, they wear big red hats! I know you lik...