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[lifetothefullest]

[Okay, seems alright talking about it indeed, though Lance considers that a moment before--]

And the Eldritch abomination alternate reality portal came as a surprise.

[If your home world is invaded by aliens, it seems like that sort of thing would be less shocking. But that's a totally rhetorical question, since he's way more interested in--]

What happened?

[wittingly]

If it takes more than two words to say I think I'm justified in staying surprised.

[ Thank you very much.

Alien Apocalypse
Eldridge abomination reality portal.

Slightly different shades. ]

But anyway, they landed and decided we were a piece of shit species that didn't deserve the earth. And you know what, you can't really fault their logic. They pretty much set up shop, subjugated humanity, and started stripping out anything useful for their fleet.

[lifetothefullest]

I could hyphenate the first and last two pairs of words, if that helps.

[But as for the rest of that--]

They judged that humanity wasn't deserving of Earth in what respect?

[Because he can guess, but he wants to be sure before he says what he's thinking.]

[wittingly]

They didn't really elaborate much, it wasn't a conversation. More like an announcement.

[ Not for lack of attempted dialogue by more than one entity around the globe. ]

Based on what we figured out about their culture later on, I think it's because we were wasteful. That whole entire island made out of trash in the pacific probably didn't help our case. That's just our best guess — my best guess, whatever that's worth.

[lifetothefullest]

[That's along the lines of what Lance was expecting considering Ian's comment about not being able to fault their logic. But faulting logic is what Lance does, and so he has to say--]

Declaring they don't approve of how humanity was using the planet's resources in order to provide some justification to use them themselves seems like pretty brazen hypocrisy.

[wittingly]

[ He shrugs a shoulder, kind of at a loss. ]

I didn't think to point that out to them.

[ But something Ian's thought about is how he's never seen them once waste anything. Never heard any stories of it. Every scrap of rubble, everything they pulled from the ground, they never left anything behind.

They don't even bury or burn the bodies of the people they declared unfit to live, nobody knows what happens to those people they put down.

He's got theories.

You gotta feed the herd something. ]

Unfortunately there wasn't much of a cultural exchange. People have tried. Wanted to know what deciding factors were, whether or not they've ever found any planet worthy, what they're gonna do with what's left of the earth when they're finished. They're not interested in talking. Doesn't matter who you are, anyone who got caught wound up in the same position as everyone else.

[ Overcrowded, under-resourced prison camps. ]

[lifetothefullest]

[Lance is quiet at all of that, listening both to the words and to how Ian says them, noting the change in tone and scaling back the flippancy in response. Instead he gives a quiet sigh at the implications of all of that, offering sincerely--]

I'm sorry. That's an awful situation, and that you can't even get any answers just makes it worse.