Created Friday 02 November 2012
A very simple but big whale. So massive it easily maintains its mass, while investing just enough to glide almost effortlessly through the blooming space and feasting on large swaths of matter.
Humans become aware of interstellar beings (after finding non-significant life but before themselves finding other beings through starflight) before they even knew what they were looking at. Or that it mattered so much. The bulid telescopes able to see into the folded dimensions and thuse make visible a whole new sensory medium. Akin to us realizing the world awash in ultraviolet light, and many another animal knows and uses that in ways we're just realizing can be done. Like realzing lots of vertebrates at least use magnetic north. Surely dogs do. Probably humans do, too. (But it's a sense that needs practice to develop) Anyway, the Humans see "slime trails" through the universe. Trails that flow between points of space we're just starting to realize even exist, let alone somehow matter.
Humans are that point of inflection. Brought their biome in contact with other biomes. Not through physical (or chemical) contact, but through interdimenionsal contact. And they come to realize that right around when they actually learn to jump. But those two events don't totally coincide. So their understanding and abilities don't always coincide. They're clumsy in ways they're just realizing exist.
And the first thing the Humans see of the New Continent is in fact the feeding trails of Really Big Space Monsters. Peacefully swimming in a vast, a very vast, ocean.Humans are that point of inflection. Brought their biome in contact with other biomes. Not through physical (or chemical) contact, but through interdimenionsal contact. And they come to realize that right around when they actually learn to jump. But those two events don't totally coincide. So their understanding and abilities don't always coincide. They're clumsy in ways they're just realizing exist.
And, yeah it looks like a snake. Or worm. That kinda serpetine body. If you flip a few dimensions around in your head.