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Clonk looked at one of the humans his team had been working with for quite a while now and could only feel concerned. The human was usually a very outgoing and cheery being, but lately, he had become very melancholic. “Human Julius, do you know what has happened with Human Peter?” Clonk asked the other […]

It was almost difficult to walk as I made my way down the hall. As if the alien ship that hovered in the sky halfway around the world was superimposed on my vision. I blinked rapidly, breathing deeply, as I walked. “Hey boss?” I slowly pushed open the door to his office, half-entering the room. […]

To be quite honest, I was just as upset as the rest of the council when the human insisted on bringing an animal of another species, an unintelligent one at that, to the meetings. These were extremely formal proceedings, with traditions and customs that went back centuries. To disrupt all of that for one pet […]

Their vision? Binocular, but otherwise average. Sense of smell? Significantly below standard. Hearing? Mid-range, typically even lower due to their constant exposure to loud noise tending to deafen them over time. So why is it that so many agencies are beginning to prefer hiring human trackers over just about anyone else? Because, despite all of […]

“Give me the manifest” the large shaggy Garran pirate demanded. With a pulse pistol to her head there was no way the small bird-like Rathian steward was going to refuse. A couple of taps on her tablet brought up a list of passengers and cargo. The Garran grinned predatorily as he scanned down the list, […]

We run. We run and we never look back. We run because we made a fatal mistake. We run because they will see us all dead for it. When we found humanity, we saw them as another race to conquer, another lamb to the slaughter, another jewel to add to our crown. We struck hard […]

Humanity warned us about AI but we didn’t listen. We thought we knew better because we were more advanced than them. We thought they were scared of progress and more worried about the boogeymen of their fiction than being left behind in this technological arms race. In our arrogance, we had missed that crucial detail. […]