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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 9384886" data-attributes="member: 8863">Summer's here and bugs are trying to get into the house again and I've reading about various invasive species.&nbsp; This has inspired some more twisted sci-fi scenarios in my warped mind.Humans as vermin: To the highly advanced super aliens, humans aren't just mayflies, they're vermin like cockroaches, flies, or mice.&nbsp; Maybe the mere human presence in a system contaminates some resource the aliens need that humans aren't even aware of or human activity disrupts a higher dimension the aliens exist in that humans can't even perceive.&nbsp;&nbsp; The aliens thus seek to eradicate human presence because it's a mere nuisance.&nbsp; They do this with methods like setting traps with technology caches that are either immediately lethal or have a long term effect after the humans bring the tech back to a major population center, they use various sorts of extremely lethal biological or chemical agents to wipe out humans,&nbsp; create a retrovirus to sterilize humans, or bioengineer some sort of hyperpredator to hunt and kill humans.Humans as invasive species: Human colonize a world that the super aliens want kept pristine.&nbsp; Maybe it's a nature preserve, or maybe it's part of a millions years long ecological experiment which has now been disrupted.&nbsp; Whatever the case, while it's an Earth-like world capable of human habitation and has no native sentient species with an advanced civilization, the human presence has greatly irked the aliens whom the humans aren't even aware of.&nbsp; So the humans have to be exterminated, whether directly destroyed by the aliens, or the aliens release some predator species to wipe them out (could be the predator from the previous example), or the aliens decide to overhunt and eat the humans into extinction.&nbsp; (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/dining/invasive-species-bun-lai-prey-restaurant.html" target="_blank">A proposed method for dealing with invasive species is to eat them unsustainably </a> and I thought it would be fun to include it here for the shock value.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 9384886, member: 8863"] Summer's here and bugs are trying to get into the house again and I've reading about various invasive species. This has inspired some more twisted sci-fi scenarios in my warped mind. [B]Humans as vermin:[/B] To the highly advanced super aliens, humans aren't just mayflies, they're vermin like cockroaches, flies, or mice. Maybe the mere human presence in a system contaminates some resource the aliens need that humans aren't even aware of or human activity disrupts a higher dimension the aliens exist in that humans can't even perceive. The aliens thus seek to eradicate human presence because it's a mere nuisance. They do this with methods like setting traps with technology caches that are either immediately lethal or have a long term effect after the humans bring the tech back to a major population center, they use various sorts of extremely lethal biological or chemical agents to wipe out humans, create a retrovirus to sterilize humans, or bioengineer some sort of hyperpredator to hunt and kill humans. [B]Humans as invasive species: [/B] Human colonize a world that the super aliens want kept pristine. Maybe it's a nature preserve, or maybe it's part of a millions years long ecological experiment which has now been disrupted. Whatever the case, while it's an Earth-like world capable of human habitation and has no native sentient species with an advanced civilization, the human presence has greatly irked the aliens whom the humans aren't even aware of. So the humans have to be exterminated, whether directly destroyed by the aliens, or the aliens release some predator species to wipe them out (could be the predator from the previous example), or the aliens decide to overhunt and eat the humans into extinction. ([url="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/dining/invasive-species-bun-lai-prey-restaurant.html"]A proposed method for dealing with invasive species is to eat them unsustainably [/url] and I thought it would be fun to include it here for the shock value.) [/QUOTE]

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