Karffin’ Mofang
Despite not being blatantly told what the Mofang’s karffin’ problem was I think a few things are becoming clear based upon what was written in the Exploration Guide.
A majority of the large Mofang population began to feel like it was their destiny to move forward to wherever the process of the trees and the abduction would take them.
This is in conflict with the direction the Humans were taking. The humans had built The Bleeder to prevent the trees from maturing, in direct opposition to what the Mofang wanted. Perhaps the Mofang attempted to get the Humans to disable The Bleeder peacefully but were knocked back. The Mofang believed “it was their destiny“ to move forward and that the humans (and I assume Villein and Arai also) were standing in their way preventing this from happening. No doubt C.W.’s plan to return the spheres to their homeworlds was another point of contention between the species. Sure Farley had her Dream but the fact that The Bleeder and the Battery even exist implies that maybe she was in the minority and that “going home” was the general consensus. This is also evidenced by Farley’s journal entry…
Again, there are those who argue with me! Over and over I demonstrate… They tell their stories and they still can’t admit that the abduction actually saved each of us – all of us. What is it in human nature that grasps so strongly to the past, that we blame our saviors for stealing it from us?
This makes it pretty clear that a large number, if not most of the people of Hunrath, were in favour of trying to get home, ie back to Earth.
They began to fear that the other species had strengths that might reduce their own superior desire to control
From the view of Earth outside the bubble it’s little wonder the Mofang feared the humans. As has been postulated by others it’s quite probable that the Mofang witnessed the destruction of Earth, most likely due to some kind of nuclear holocaust. The Mofang were a powerful, controlling type species who were unwilling to bend to the other species’ desires yet afraid of what might happen if they openly fought them. It’s no wonder that they concocted a secret plan to simply “take out” the other species and assume their destinies. I think it’s fair to assume, partially based on Farley’s journal, that the Mofang believe themselves to be the superior species and the only ones “fit” to inhabit the new world. In their minds it was ”the others” that were the evil ones holding them back. It all smells a little like Hitler and the Aryan race if you want to make comparisons. I’m not sure if that justifies genocide but I guess it’s hard to understand a completely alien mentality even when we have human analogues.
What gives one species the right to destroy another species? Who gets to choose? Do I just lay down and die because the more aggressive species thinks they’re better, more powerful? What brutal scale do I use to measure the good of some against the life of others?