text; @b.crusher

[dancingmd]

There's something I've been thinking about over the past few months of being here: the portal appears to have a distinctly Human bias. I'm Human myself but I come from a universe with hundreds, if not thousands of other sapient species, yet the three of us who are here from that universe are all Humans. What's more is that no one else I've talked to here has ever encountered or even heard of the other people we share our galaxy with, no more than I'd known of Asgardians or Elves or the Prawn before I arrived. On the other hand, despite vast other differences in our realities here, most people seem to know about Humans, which seems strange to me. Surely there must be an infinite number of universes out there without Humans, right? So why are there no representatives of those worlds? Or simply more representatives of a wider variety of peoples?

Now, if this was one of the historical portals built by the inhabitants of the planet we orbit, I wouldn't think as much of it - perhaps they'd specifically target realities that were closest to their own. But if this one is supposedly a natural occurrence, then why this pattern of selection?

Any thoughts on this?

[Because surely, she can't be the only one thinking about it.]

Comments

[brightline]

the Yeerks are a parasite type of alien, they live in pools and look like slugs, and if they can crawl in through the ear of a person or animal with the right kind of brain, they take over. you're conscious in there, but they're the ones in control, and they can do whatever they want.

Andalites are like blue centaurs with scorpion tails and eyes on stalks, and they eat through their feet. they're really technologically advanced and most of them are kinda stuck up about it. then again I've only mostly interacted with soldier Andalites, and I hear the civilians are a bit different.

[dancingmd]

[Beverly shudders at the thought of the Yeerks. The Trill are one thing - that's a symbiotic relationship. This sounds horrifying.]

But the Andalites are fighting the Yeerks?

[brightline]

yeah they have been for a long time. but the war's been over for a while at the time I come from. we kinda won it on Earth

[dancingmd]

Well, I'm glad to hear that at least!