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When people see humanoid 'aliens', they unconsciously assume that those must be the ones that are in charge. Actually, only machine-phase systems make the long interstellar trip at sublight speed. When they arrive, they bioengineer local lifeforms into gofers.
The usual criticisms of the sasquatch are that it would require a breeding population of 10K+ to be genetically stable and we couldn't miss that many, that there would be scats and corpses and trail cam sightings and plenty of evidence of foraging. In practice, they don't need to breed because they can be cloned, and they spend most of their time in ships and bases.
They have an implanted version of the mass reduction system used on the ships and can move with unnatural speed, keeping pace with cars. Does that sound like Ithaqua, the Windwalker? It was observed by native Americans long before white settlement. The speed is the signature. "Bigfoot" doesn't actually look like an ape; it looks like a human with gigantism. That's another reason why nobody has ever presented a body: Even if they shoot one, once they get closer they think they shot a person, and so they never report it. It's engineered from you.
There are various models. Two feet tall, normal human size, eight foot and robust, ten foot and spindly. Other animals have also been adapted, like cape buffalo in Africa.
Once you have aliens, you always have aliens. They stick around in the background forever.
Mass reduction, not a warp drive, is what makes interstellar travel possible at all. You can travel at near light speed with comparatively little energy investment. The other applications are just gravy; if that phenomenon didn't exist, you couldn't get around.
This post has been edited by Necromusume: Dec 5 2021, 07:59
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What was the last thing you thought?, general edition
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