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[wittingly]

Hey so

I've been screwing around with the network connecting the communications devices a little. I know there's no Spotify here, no internet, not a lot of music, which sucks. My MP3 player came here with me, so I figured maybe some people might like to have at least a few options. It might not necessarily be to everyone's taste, but it's better than nothing (probably).

I've uploaded the contents to the database, you should be able to access it or send/receive songs at any time.

Turns out they already had some music on there too, so you can poke around theirs and see if you find something you like more. I haven't gotten to go through it all, but at least some of it looks like 21st century Earth stuff.

Sidenote: you're welcome to criticize the contents of my MP3 player, just know that I've never felt shame in my life & I can and will sing all of these karaoke style to your face. IDK if you really want to live through that experience.

( feel free to threadjack as you like )

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[cleaningsolutions]

Are. They're our friends and benefactors. After they invented survivable FTL travel they came to Earth to invite us into their alliance, but we had already destroyed ourselves and ate their envoys. They still tried to fix us. We owe them everything.

They're people, like anyone. Some of them are awful, some of them are good. But the Krakau Alliance is the only force that can stand against the Prodryans. I'm going to guess your aliens were more on the Prodryan side? As for what Krakau look like, I can have my monocle project a picture sometime.

[She's having to work a little with this. Text posts are too much like writing for comfort.]

It's hard to say. Mostly it feels like Private Wong practicing. He had one made and is trying to learn it, but the only other stringed instrument players on the Pufferfish play very different kinds, so they can only help him so far.

[Unsaid: he's not very good.]

[wittingly]

If the Prodryans were more likely to murder you than talk to you, yeah, that might be a better comparison.

You have a picture-projecting monocle? That's awesome.

( RIP private wong, who probably tried his best. )

[cleaningsolutions]

Prodryans talk to us just enough to let us know that they want to kill everyone and take everything we have, and that they're not interested in other solutions. I'm sorry. I've seen colonies hit, but I can't imagine a homeworld. An Earth.

[wittingly]

( Wellllll fuck, yeah that pretty much matches the description to a T. )

Did Prodryans look like standard humans too?

[cleaningsolutions]

No. They look more like humans than any of the other sentient species, but that only means they have two arms and two legs and a head with two eyes. Each individual Prodryan, I mean. And two sexes with variations being rare. They're sort of like Earth butterflies or grasshoppers as much as they're like humans.

[Hers is a setting where all the aliens are very nonhuman-looking. There are tardigrade people.]

[wittingly]

I can't help but wonder if they weren't maybe the same species that showed up on my world. They never actually told us their name, or at least they didn't back at the start before communications died. They just said they were the judge of our planet, so we kind of gave them a nickname based on that. Sounds like very similar motives at least.

[cleaningsolutions]

If the Prodryans as a whole are interested in judging people they always seem to come to the same decision, but they're not unwilling to tell us about themselves. They're culturally and maybe biologically wired to have minimal empathy and maximal interest in the good of their bands, then families, then colonies, then species.

They do terrible things to other people but they're openly assholes about it. The one time the Alliance was able to talk to them about why they do what they do they self-identified as assholes, actually.

[wittingly]

Ah, yeah, that sounds a little bit different than who we met.

I'm not actually sure if I'm disappointed or relieved.

[cleaningsolutions]

A little bit. I suppose hostile omnicidal aliens can come in several types. You call yours... judges?

The fortunate thing with Prodryans is that they're incapable of uniting. Less than a quarter of them are ever actively engaging in hostilities with us at once. The unfortunate thing is that that's enough to hold its own against the entire Krakau Alliance, even with our superior technology and human soldiers. They breed to fill their environments so that a single pair in a new colony can have a hundred offspring in a year, and it only takes three short generations for a few thousand to become a billion.

[wittingly]

Pretty much, yeah. That's basically the only thing they ever said to us, we didn't have much else to go off of.

Kind of wish they would have just told us they were assholes like yours did, it would've been a way better nickname.

I don't have the slightest fucking clue how the ones back home breed, if they even do. I do know they're pretty united, and unfortunately I don't think it would've taken more than a handful of ships for them to wipe us out, let alone the couple hundred they sent.

Still, if you wanna send a couple Krakau our way when you get back home, I'm sure we wouldn't complain about the help

(that's a joke)