This issue of IF - Science Fiction magazine (Feb 1966) is the first time the Kzin are mentioned.
They are technically vastly superior to mankind and almost kill humans in their first encounter in deep space.
The Kzin have gravity drives and telepaths. After reading the minds of the humans on the ship "Angel's Pencil" they realise that the humans dont have weapons and have been a peaceful race for hundreds of years.
They decide to kill the human crew in the most slow & painful way using an
inductive heating weapon.
The Kzin hope to capture their ship intact for
intelligence purposes.
However, the humans use their primitive drive as a weapon, destroying the Kzin ship, and initiating the first Man-Kzin War.
A bit about the Kzin:
The Kzinti were initially introduced in Niven's story "The Warriors" (originally in Worlds of If (1966), collected in Tales of Known Space (1975)) and "The Soft Weapon" (1967), collected in Neutron Star (1968).
The Man-Kzin Wars, has so far reached fifteen volumes.
The first published in June 1988
Kzinti also appear in Juggler of Worlds (2008) and Fate of Worlds (2012), novels.
They are extremely violent. Often described as anthropomorphic tigers.
They are larger than humans, standing around 8 feet (2.4 m) tall and weighing around 500 pounds (230 kg).
One human gave an apt description of Kzin as "eight feet of death".
MKW = Man Kzin War
There are 4 official wars (Wars 5 & 6 are unofficial)--------------------------------------------
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