If Tim Lebbon gets to write again in another Predator Anthology, I'd love to see him revisit his Predator characters such as Elder Kalakta, Hashori or Yaquita.
We've seen Akoko Halley revisited twice in both anthologies, which helped give us extra insight into her character. Alien Bug Hunts also featured some other Marines we later see in Rage Wars.
I'd love to see more developments on his Predators.
Will we ever get to see Predators hunt other sapient species in an Anthology? The authors can make up one. That'd be so cool to see. I loved that weird machine techno-sentient seen in Bug Hunts which was attacking a human ship and the Colonial Marines had to fight it off.
Did you get to read Predator: South China See, Bryan? It's a very good book and sometimes the Predator remembers past hunts it has done which involves not just strange animals but also weird intelligent aliens.
Some examples are:
- This intelligent amphibian species that lives on the back of a huge parasite.
- A lumbering plant-fungus alien, the Predator took its hoverboard to use in future hunts such as the one its done in the story of the book.
- An armoured worm it has hunted on a world half a galaxy away.
There's also a scene where the Predator takes a break from its hunts and goes into its ship to watch other Predators hunting in real-time, recorded from their masks. He watched them on his screens in his ship as entertainment, here's some off the top of my head:
- Two hunters were hunting an intelligent humanoid species.
- A female was hunting a multi-headed reptilian beast on a planet with a green star.
- Several Predators climbed a huge sky blocking worm to reach its eyes.
- A whole clan was hunting a Godzilla sized offspring from a continent sized creature.
I also recall there were hunts in space, where Predator motherships would hunt living organic space ships.
There's huge potential in some epic short stories when it comes to this alien and I am excited to read more of them.
