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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 5534028">An idea from Mass Effect - their motivation is very fathomable - every 50K years or so they come here and HARVEST everything. In ME, the critters are intelligent machines and that is how they proprogate - they let the technology level of the galaxy grow to a certain level and then harvest it to create more of the creatures (and these are huge, battle cruiser sized creatures with a distinct lovecraftian look). They ensure the cycle by planting certain technologies that allow races to jump ahead to the proper level (sorta like fertilizer).So you can place the timeline near one of these harvests. Individual aberrations have specific functions in the harvest. Mindflayers are likely the generals/coordinators on the ground. Perhaps discoveries in magic and psionics are really developments planted by the Far Realm to enhance the creatures brains to their maximum tastiness.Plus it explains why you cannot sling a dead cat without hitting a ruin in most fantasy worlds - there have been a number of harvests leaving the world in ruin.</blockquote>