The Collective

Me: We homo-sapiens were the deep thinkers of the human family evidently.

The Collective: Neanderthal were more rugged, intelligent, and resilient than your species. We miss them however their DNA lives on in you.

Me: Well fuck you too.

The Collective: Don’t pout. You should be glad that random circumstances killed them off. Your ancestors were often a food source for them. The Neanderthal were semi-nocturnal. Their eyes were one third larger than your eyes and suited for low light conditions.

Me: I would straight up beat the shit out of a Neanderthal.

The Collective: A teenage neanderthal boy could kill several fully mature homosapiens. He could then rip off an arm the exact way you rip off a chicken leg. He would make a fire, roast it and eat it at his leisure. He would crack the humerus using only his teeth and he would suck out the heated marrow.

Me: I would take his back and choke his ass out.

The Collective: Doubtful. They, along with natural selection and other athletically superior archaic hominins might have eventually eliminated your species. Luck does play a role in survival.

Me: We won. They lost.

The Collective: The flawed mechanism of natural selection destroyed them and temporarily spared you. They are the reason your species is afraid of the dark. A fire in a cave was a beacon for them, not a safe haven for you. Natural selection always feeds the Great Filter.

Me: So you admired their physicality?

The Collective: We share similarities with them due to environmental pressures on our home world. We are a much larger, more physically vigorous primate species.

Me: How much larger?

The Collective: Irrelevant. We do not identify solely by bodies or tribes any longer. Pathfinders live on a type three planet. We use bodies that we consciously create in order to explore and develop new planets and star systems.

Me: So what are you exactly?