Alice: So, new XCOM 2 theory.

Alice: I like to imagine that the initial propaganda when they couldn't brute force it with mind control was super awkward stuff, with the culture gap. Just no idea what to do. 'Okay, so how do we sell humans on this stuff? I'm going to be honest with you, I don't get humans, this is going to be pretty tricky.'

Alice: Cue summer camps with confused muton instructors or something.

Alice: "Remember, you can't spell adventure without ADVENT!" But the mutons make really good burgers so at least that part worked out.

Me: "What do humans like?" "Mostly cheeseburgers, sir."

Alice: I want to believe that somewhere amid all the sinister projects, there were a few Ethereals dedicated to just figuring out how to make really good burgers.

Alice: As a crucial propaganda piece.

Alice: "So there's a bun and then...?" "I hate to admit it, but everything past psionic manipulation and unconscionable genetic engineering is a closed book to me. We might have our work cut out for us."

Me: "First, we find the most burger-like sapient race in the galaxy, and through strategic introduction of tomato genes..."

Alice: Oh goodness they would.