Interstellar Inter-Species Relations

The Peregrine.

The Erulani noble, Mountain Man Thorkild, describes the customers who buy spaceships on Erulan:

"'They're a strange sort. Talk Basic with the weirdest accent, don't wear clothes, don't - I don't know. They have the ways of natives, but they're human, I'll swear.'" (CHAPTER IX, PP. 83-84)

I thought that this meant that he was mistaking Alori for human beings. However, the Alori, Espereo, tells Trevelyan:

"'Other races have joined with us and taken on our life. Among them have been crews, and descendants of crews, from those spaceships we took.'" (CHAPTER XVI, p. 146)

So those were Alorianized human beings that bought the ships on Erulan. Some members of other races willingly join the Alori just as some human Avalonians join Ythrian choths in the Technic History. However, other human beings, the Peregrine crew and Trevelyan, are unwilling to join the Alori and, unfortunately, the latter attempt to detain them.