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by dangitnotagain 1067 days ago
Expectations and presumptions become as much a feature as the curiosity.

- our visitors cannot travel faster than the speed of light, however they can communicate (through their minds no less) faster through entanglement.

- they do not “travel” in space, they “live” where ever they are. These travel as their populations swell and they move on toward the closest of infinite outward curiosities.

- Their craft are living organisms which host up to city sized populations many of which will never leave their embryonic sac.

- a rare few have set foot upon Earth, yet some have lived here for 10,000 years (the first of their kind to “find” Earth.)

- Heat gives them away. These use fusion, intense electromagnetics, and the acceleration of counterweights toward the speed of light for propulsion. The enormity of heat must always be accommodated; exhaust you know.

- these are altruistic, though they’ve heard those stories about others from inward of disc too.

- these have traveled for so long none among them can remember where they are from or which star they were [originally] born. At least a million years of them, though unwilling to stretch it much further.