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Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Ah, yes, those evil Vegans were quite the menace.

They're insidious!







...though jokes aside, because Vega's one of the brightest stars in the sky, it tends to crop up in sci-fi a lot. And because it's a simple derivation, multiple stories use Vegan (pronounced Vey-gan rather than Vee-gan) to describe the inhabitants of that system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Immortal

The term for a hardcore vegetarian was invented a little less than a century ago, but it didn't really start becoming all that popular in its own right until around 40 or so years ago. For most of the 50s, 60s, and 70s sci-fi writers probably wouldn't even have thought about the possible alternative definition (in the same way older stories take a while to start phasing out "gay" as a term for happiness after it became more and more exclusively associated with homosexuality).