Lebbon's Predators have a lot more in common with Perry's Yautja than the Hish do.
For instance:
They're both honourable and follow rules. Elder Kalakta's
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fight towards the end shows how the younger Predators glanced his way, looking if he noticed their skills. A marine points out that no one huddled around to protect him because they wouldn't "denigrate" him like that.
Kalakta seemed happy to be called "honourable" by Palant. A Hish wouldn't give a crap.
Also, Hashori proudly boasted that the reason humans fear them is because "they respect our warrior prowess." Clearly a very warrior oriented species like Perry's Yautja. She also says "only cowards and criminals hide", a nod to how Perry's Yautja try to cloak as little as possible.
And, just like Perry's Yautja, not all of Lebbon's Predators followed these rules. Perry's Yautja were gonna target a family including kids and a pet until Dachande stops them.
Lebbon's Yautja were gonna target a man and his kids until a Colonial Marine kills it right in the first chapter of Incursion.
The only differences from Perry's ones are the fact that males and females are identical. And that sometimes, the Predators take captives when targeting populated areas, but no one knows why they take captives.
Could it be for slavery? Could it be for experimentation? Or could it be to drop them on hunting reserves?
Also, they're willing to work with humans, like how Dachande was working with Machiko Noguchi to fight the Aliens.
Lebbon does blend their technological advancement by combining it with Yautja (they make their own stuff) and Hish (they reverse engineer other civilization's stuff.)
Also the "Super Predators" are just another clan of Yautja. There's nothing stopping them from being one. I mean, Predators aren't a unified race to begin with, so they'd have many different clans and cultures.
Like Lebbon's ones, there's different languages and even different dialects between clans. It's not like learning Klingon and suddenly you can talk to every Klingon out there. It's a lot like learning English and then only being able to speak with English speaking humans.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 04, 2016, 11:29:44 AM
As PZ says, nothing more than it sounded cool. And as PZ said, Lebbon's Yautja are not Perry's which is why I'm not a fan of that being done. People like PZ and happypred are going to expect Perry's Predators.
I suppose you're right. Don't forget about Rakai'Thwei as well.