This is a program that generates information cards for fanfic writers to reference in The Nature of Predators community. These cards can be looked at independently or possibly be invoked by a discord bot. (Discord bot is its own separate project). It is flexible enough to also include references for any fanmade species and credit their authors.
You will need Inkscape installed and on your PATH. I haven't figured out a way to properly get the program working without Inkscape, as it's the only program that supports the SVG2 format.
You will also need lxml and pandas.
When humanity finally begins to explore the stars, they are eager to befriend the civilizations they encounter, but galactic affairs are not so simple. An interplanetary war rages, and the fledgling human space navy finds itself caught between two sides of the war. The Federation, on one side, is comprised entirely of herbivorous species and is terrified of all predators, including humans. On the other side, the Arxur are carnivores who defeat and devour their enemies in combat.
Humankind's initial alliance with the Federation is on shaky grounds, and as if landing in the middle of a centuries-long war wasn't enough, they face an increasingly complicated galactic political landscape. Earth must fight for its survival, while also showing restraints to avoid herbivore allies viewing them in the same light as the Arxur.
Can humanity show a galaxy of potential friends and allies that they aren't the monsters lurking in the dark by protecting them from the Arxur, or will the very attempt to do so show the depths of depravity and violence that humans can resort to?
—Book 1's description on Amazon
The Nature of Predators is a sci-fi web serial by u/SpacePaladin15 that was initially published on the r/hfy subreddit, in addition to a sequel, Patreon-exclusive bonus stories, and a paperback series available Amazon. It garnered a fairly sizeable community of fanfic writers in its own subreddit.
[First chapter on Reddit] [First chapter of the sequel on Reddit] [Book 1 on Amazon]
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