“Oh dear, I think we’re a food planet—“
“—old news, Larry Niven speculated that all earth life evolved from alien food yeast over half a century ago”
“That’s not what I me—“
“—and star trek retconned all the neighbour alien races being so fuckable as due to us all being genetically seeded by the Progenitors three decades ago—“
“No this is important—“
“—there’s really no new ideas left in ess eff I don’t know why you—“
“Will you SHUT UP for a minute. I’ve found the great filter, I know why this planet, like all the others before it, won’t give rise to a galactic civilisation!”
“Okay try it, I bet I’ve heard this one before”
“It’s only a matter of time. The Eaters are on their way. This planet is RIPE”
@Unixbigot it'd be neat if there was a story where the plucky humans literally had no hope of winning becausw their intelligence gap is similar to humans/cats. Like sure they can scheme but a lot of it will be transparent and the feeder aliens would overwhelm them with force.
