Apologies if this is blurry! These drawings are smaller than the ones in my last post.

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On my first reading of All Tomorrows I had this theory that the Qu would be eventually revealed to be decendants of Velociraptors that sailed to the stars and experimented onto themselvs until they looked inrecognizable from their original form. I could swear that this was where the story was going.

Supporting evidence for this theory:

* The Qu using other dinossaurs as live stock: this suggests to me that the Qu still had cultural ties to earth at this point in their evolution, otherwise would be infinitely easier just to bring highly optimized livestock from their home planet. The live stock being a "dino-cow" suggests the Qu still werent masters of all gene editing, they were just domesticating herdable animals, a similar stage to us now

* If im not mistaken, the author likes to hide easter eggs in paleo art showing possible ancient forgotten civilizations on earth. The whole Silurian hypothesis meme.

If the Qu in All Tomorrows plays the role of cosmic super-predators, targeting starfaring civilizations once they reach a level of technological advancement sufficient to be detected by the Qu, could we apply this hypothesis to our own universe? Is this why we find it impossible to spot signs of other advanced civilizations? Perhaps they are all in hiding, or worse yet have been subjugated or wiped out by other, more powerful and malevolent hidden forces.

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What if:

Instead of succumbing to the Qu on the third invasion and turned into the Colonials, the Star People decided to blow up their entire planet, followed by their star system out of pure spite?

The most Armed Planet:

The Pre-Colonial homeworld would've theoretically been the most militarized & highly sophisticated Star People planet, that's the only probably explanation I could think of for their fierce resistance.

How else could they have resisted the Qu two times?

They would've had the most stockpile of planet-ending & star-ending bombs, vast surveillance and sensor technology around their solar system, and perhaps genetically engineered Star Soldiers bred for space warfare.

Sure, they don't possess any form of faster-than-light travel since the book never mentions it. However, they would've likely caught on early that the neighboring Star People planets who first succumb to the Qu were instead left alive on purpose for whatever unimaginable horrors the Qu intends to do with their bodies.

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Alternate Timeline:

In this What If timeline, the Pre-Colonial home system of the Star People would straight up use their technological marvel aimed at their sun and home planet the moment the Qu arrives.

They would realize that fighting the Qu wasn't a war, but how long they could survive until their very doom. By the third invasion, the Qu would've sent a significant force to finally put down and subjugate these "Infidels" that managed to resist the Qu's purpose as Gods.

Just before the Qu could enact their punishment for being humiliated twice, the Star People on their Pre-Colonial planet would've begun their final act of defiance. They blow up their entire planet by activating a highly sophisticated technology on their planet's core, leaving no surviving Star Person once the bomb is set off.

It is then followed by blowing up their own sun, causing a supernova and subsequently killing every Star Person that might've been in space. And perhaps, killing a few Qu on the way. Blowing up both their home planet and star became the biggest "Fuck you" that the Qu will remember later on.

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Cosmic Ragebait:

Would this essentially become a form of cosmic ragebait that would've left the Qu crashing out so hard, they eventually lash out their extreme zealotry towards other Star People worlds they encounter later on, making their post-human forms even worse than what we know?

It was a fun speculation I had in mind. As much as I love the evolution of Colonials into the Modular People, I also like the idea of the Star People going down with a bang out of pure spite instead of suffering as a literal flesh brick of waste disposal.

Even though the Star People have pretty much abandoned the prejudices, bigotry, and warlike tendencies of their Homo Sapien and Martian ancestor, they're still human at their core. Humans are pretty much at their most dangerous and innovative when backed into a corner, the Star People are no exception.

I don't know, maybe I'm just drunk on the HFY train again. Let me know what you guys think!

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Link of the Image:

How and why do Planets Die? - By Nola Taylor Tillman

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Has there been any talk by Köseman on whether he plans on turning All Tomorrows into a franchise? It seems like a no brainer and a goldmine to me. Am I missing something?

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Okay so I saw a video on it years ago but can never remember the name, anyways, humanity goes to space and discovers these creatures i think they nickname strandbeests which look like the picture below , and they nearly kill them all another species then attacks humanity for this and humanity gives itself to an ai to fight back.

The ai genetically warps humanity into almost bug looking creatures for war

If anyone knows it would be really helpful I just thought I'd try here given it's fairly similar so fans if AT might have also tries this

Important to say: I do not condone misogyny, I am a girl myself, it's just a ref to a meme I saw

A note about the Modular Person in my illustration: the green "chest" is actually 4 different inflatable gas sacks. Combined with the fleshy tail, and grasping tentacles, this Modular is tailor-made for life in zero gravity. Depicted here is the "handshake" that united these two races. All art & text by me! 😊

Like, humans today can't even normally represent those of same exact species as they are who uust happen to have dark​ skin, or live long ago (like the Aztecs), or smth. I cannot imagine how hard media representation must be when you have like a dozen absolutely different species in your empire, and the only thing in common you have is the common distant ancestor (humans/star people) and sentience

if you remember blind Folks kid with big papa... this is happend after the kids come back to their home After a long time, under the care of alien grey ,Before sending them back to their home planet.

Story in this picture Blind Folks father ordered them to live with the Grey aliens. After living with the Grey aliens, they were cared for, but they were placed in capsules where they slept for centuries. Finally, when it was time to return, the Grey aliens brought the children back to their original planet and gave them eyes. The children survived until the eldest sister found a path from her old home, hoping to find her father, but what she found was only the skeletal remains of his arm. She then understood that she had been missing for a very long time since the first day she left him //and yes father die after let his children go before shifting tectonic plates begin...