Depends on how taboo the subject matter would be in Kilrathi culture. You probably would be okay with sticking to WC4 plots (since it's the same story largely without all the comedy/cultural references/lewdness). While not official in any way, the core rules of my RPG puts the onset of...

Dagnabbit...and here I thought I had had an original idea for Elegy. Don't know why I would have thought that was original, but all the same... As an aside, if EA is going to make it to Wing Commander MCIII by the time of the story, they really need to start picking up the pace. Just saying.

You can if you wish, though some of my colleagues might take issue...

As written, it's referring to the author - Sun Tzu Terran'hra = "Sun Tzu, the Terran". How he'd be referenced in trathkh dai'B'nal would depend on Kilrathi knowledge of him, which in turn is dependent on how the Terran inhabitants of Fawcett's World knew of his work, which in turn would depend...

I missed the fact that Kna was Varni...that's what I get for not taking a closer look at the picture. I don't think there are 'official' guidelines for Varni names, though if you go off of what I've got in the core rules of the RPG then 'Kna' isn't a Varni name (then again the naming rules in...

I'm not necessarily a songwriter - not even in English - but I'll happily help with translation to Kilrathi when you need it. "Hagai. Gar'ha k'ro mas ga'hatakh ma'ins erg gar'toshlesivi, Sun Tzu Terran'hra, takh gar'lede'i, Rag'nith Xag. Qu hu'ha ga mas ni'is hu'kro erg garga'lede'i...

It would be likely that the elder Vakka would still have been alive at the time of the younger's birth, so lak Jukaga would be the proper form - and without adding conjectures about his function and place of birth, and in the absence of additional data the full name would be Kal Vakka dai Vakka...

Fair warning: this is the sort of question that has been known to cause thread-derailing debates before... I'd have to go back and re-read the novel one more time, but I'm inclined to think the scene was intended as a dramatization of "factual" events. I think Col. Schwarzmont is supposed to be...

"N'ikh nhar, ga'ha du aj'kbalan." Rag'nithjhak'drishk ra alpaqorkork takh Rag'nith'jaq v'eks du dai hukutav. ("N'ikh nhar" would probably better translate as "Mine father". Not an exact translation but I think Gilkarg was speaking with a bit of flourish in this situation, considering who he...

IIRC, I first started posting on the forums shortly before the 13th birthday; started by offering to fill a seat for TacOps and stuck around to find materials for this sci-fi RPG system I'd already built and wanted to see how hard it'd be to convert to another setting. Got a lot of good material...

About the interjections? There have been a couple of times working with the language where I've had a sentence that begins with a word like "well, " or "oh, ", and I don't have good ways of expressing the intended emotion other than to fill in a word that literally expresses it. For example...

"K'rathrg, ni'ka'akh du'aiy ergraiga!" ('Y'all'? I didn't realize we were dealing with a Cat from the Deep South... In other news, I really, really need to come up with a better set of interjections.) "Eshma? Karhsh'hakavji'k talan, maks hu'halanesh du inthrak ikar." No, there shouldn't be...

Probably #1 more than #2. Female feral cats (farm cats in particular) are known to "use communal nests and take care of kittens of other colony members". Quoting the Wikipedia article on feral cats here, so do with that what you will - myself, I think it fits well enough.

Quick suggestion - perhaps they were killed in a raid on their world, with the kid lucky enough to survive? Perhaps he was one of only a handful of survivors...or better still, the only survivor (hence why he wasn't picked up by a kinsman - there would've been no one left). Only other reason I...

Just realized I didn't have a word for "orphan" in the lexicon. k'hrai ("without family") would work, though I wonder if the situation would be k'nar ("without clan") instead. It strikes me that in the case where a Kilrathi youth loses both their parents, responsibility for their upbringing...

Since I began work on Elegy a few years back, I've considered Kilrathi society to be a lot like that of feudal Japan, with the particulars of the Cult of Sivar standing in for Shintoism and Buddhism with a few adjustments needed due to the obvious differences in philosophies. This would put the...

I can roll with that. Might still be a case of social stigma involved - it might be assumed that those who cook meat can't hunt. There'd probably have to be a level of distinction between cooked meat for lower classes and cooked meat for celebratory feasts, say something like juk = "to cook /...

It's most likely a difference in story design; even in Wing Commander 3 they mention how Angel was served up as a roast, IIRC. That said, it could easily be that raw meat is the standard in Kilrathi cuisine, with cooked meat reserved either for special occasions or for the very wealthy/important...

"Ni'dyaha'kdalpa erg ja'lhu ri'lek, laq. Ni'le durai dule'i'ni'wuni: NIS JUK!" (Real word twisting here. Assuming "allez cuisine" means roughly "go cook", it presents the problem of there being no Kilrathi word meaning"to cook", which itself goes back to Freedom Flight and the idea that "Cats...

"I've been thinking about what you said, sir. I say unto you in the words of my uncle: 'ALLEZ CUISINE!'" (I'll do the Kilrathi version later...)