Okay so

Picture this;

A race of ancient, ageless, incredibly powerful aliens. They’re almost impossible to destroy, and can recover from almost any wound; they’re far, far from humanoid, and they seem to be able to bend matter to their whims, to change their shape at will and warp the world around them.

They’re cosmic horrors, really; eldritch abominations; ancient and impossibly powerful beings that have traveled all throughout the stars. They’re beyond human understanding, and we’re like mayflies to them.

And they are, essentially, a virus. Viruses are an inherently parasitic form of beings; they hijack the DNA of bacteria and cells to reproduce, to create more of themselves. They move from cell to cell like this, leaving nothing but empty husks in their wake. Now, imagine that, but instead of cells, it’s planets.

That’s what these things are. Ageless and near immortal creatures, relentless and unstoppable, spreading throughout the stars, leaving millions of dead worlds in their wake.

That’s terrifying, isn’t it? There are plenty of stories with similar concepts; unstoppable and inhuman cosmic horrors that walk throughout the stars, leaving empty husks of worlds in their wake. These stories are dark. These stories are often about how small humanity is, how insignificant humanity is, in the face of the vastness of the cosmos. They are dark and hopeless and frightening stories.

But this particular story? This is the exact opposite of that.

This story is about the beauty and wonder of Earth, of humanity, of every single person. There are beings that are far older and far more powerful than we are, ageless crystalline entities that walked throughout all the stars. Surely, we are nothing to them, nothing compared to them.

But that’s not true. Because when some of these beings reached Earth, when they saw humanity and all the wonders of this planet, they fell in love with it. They had walked throughout all the vastness and the cosmos, they had the universe at their fingertips, and then they saw Earth, our little blue planet, less than a speck of dust in the vast, vast cosmos. And they chose Earth. They chose humanity.

It seems as if we would be nothing to them, and yet they gave up everything to protect Earth. They weighed the vastness of all of space against our little, seemingly insignificant planet, and they chose Earth. They gave up their homes, and thousands of them gave up their lives. For Earth. For humanity.

Because every life is precious, every human achievement is a wonder, everyone experiences the world differently, everyone has their own story, everyone is their own universe. We are very small, but we are not insignificant. We’re part of this universe too, after all. We’re part of the wonder of the cosmos. And we are dreams, and hope, and love, and part of a world that’s so, so beautiful.



And I just. have a lot of feelings about this narrative and how beautiful it is and how sharply it contrasts the narratives of so many other stories.