I see flashes of what is to come. Not a war as we understand it. Their weapons make atomics look like sling stones, their science makes us look like cavemen, and their alien reasoning makes us look like wild dogs. Their short-term plans extend over centuries, while longer goals take up millenia. Already they have unleashed weapons that will arrive with us in the course of four hundred years, weapons as small as a proton. Their goal is inscrutable. Not conquest. Not extermination. But something other - something like change. Mutation. They are at war with themselves more than anything, we’re just on the sidelines.
Paddy Dobson
2nd April 2024