And that's a good thing, because if they lived as long as we do and worked out how to get along with each other they'd be running the planet, and most likely farming us for food.
They're really terrifyingly smart.
They're really terrifyingly smart.
Cooking and metallurgy are both pretty important, and we got them incrementally, starting from fire being pretty easy to do.
Moving back to the land-sea war, we know how to make bombs and stuff, so they better have something like steel and know how to come attack us on land and so on if there is any notion of it being a contest.
(Though one should put in the time to also read the novel of which this is a sequel, which is about intelligent spiders, and is also pretty nice.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tchaikovsky#Children_of...