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Pak Protector
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<p>Pak Breeders and Pak Protectors are two developmental stages of <a href="/facts/Fictional/p1AY3Xp4">fictional</a> life in <a href="/facts/Larry_Niven/yNRlamWe">Larry Niven</a>'s <a href="/facts/Known_Space/fa9TQtRT">Known Space</a> universe. The Pak first appeared in "The Adults", which appeared in <i><a href="/facts/Galaxy_Science_Fiction/0R0CT4bR">Galaxy</a></i> in 1967; this story was expanded into the novel <a href="/facts/Protector_(novel)/LDcHCCaa"><i>Protector</i></a> by Larry Niven (1973). The Pak also appear in several of Niven's later novels, notably those set in the <a href="/facts/Ringworld/Hpeugaxm">Ringworld</a>. </p><p><i><a href="/facts/Destroyer_of_Worlds_(novel)/GBBcpP7I">Destroyer of Worlds</a></i> depicts a confrontation between the Pak and the <a href="/facts/Pierson%2527s_Puppeteers/D04KKrsv">Puppeteers</a>. </p>