“I waus drinnken sum brews up by d’a reseevoir when some bug-eyyed Space aliens done whooshed over an’ took me inta their ship and tried to probe me …”
Seriously, ever notice just how the physical description of Ylii, especially the Deltas, come close to the classic Alien-UFO image (see http://alien-ufo-research.com/alien_pictures/)? Oh sure there are plenty of differences but those could be explained away by the extreme unreliability/variability of the UFO reports/a Ylii encounter suit/Ylii dying of space radiation exposure or too long in weightlessness etc, etc. The spherical Ylii ships could look like saucers because they have [a ring of sensor arrays/a ring of plasma exhaust vents/are an earlier versions etc, etc]. For weapons Ylii are known to employ a neural disrupting technology which I suppose could also be used to read/erase/damage/alter your memories. So they really are trying to steal your thoughts unless of course you are wearing a hat made out of tinfoil
The Ylii are said to have encountered the Kafers about 300 years ago, so that could put it sometime within the 20th century. Imagine if the Ylii about that time launched one or several long range Expeditions that went past the Kafers and made it all the way to Earth. The Expedition could be by [a lone visionary Delta/official Ylii government probe] for the purpose of [scientific inquiry/finding allies vs. the Kafers]. The Expedition did not deal with the closer Pentapods because [the area of Pentapod space was smaller back then and they were missed/as believers in letting fate take it’s course the Ylii refused to have anything to do with a species that would think nothing of forced altering one of it members into becoming a sentient toaster*]. The Expedition spent some years around Earth collecting samples, making crop circles and dealing with shadowy US government agents etc before returning because of [Kafer attacks were going to cut off their route/collected all they needed to know/witnessed (?started?) the Twilight War and concluded that humanity was crazier than the Kafers] whereupon the ship was [forgotten/beset by Kafers and damaged, the ship drifted into an asteroid field/crashed in Roswell/eaten by Cthulu]. Most evidence of the Expedition is [in a private collection of an eccentric billionaire/in a US govt warehouse/on a Ylii world held by the Kafers, held by a cabal of Ylii]. The PCs could stumble into any one of these threads and be drawn deeper and deeper in. Truly perceptive PCs could wonder at the amazing similarity between the music of certain Ylii hill tribes and that of the 20th century Earth musician Elvis Presley…
Anyways, there was a thread in this forum a while back on Cryogenics (http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=14185) and I have to think that the superior Ylii technology would be a much more realistic way to bring some cryogenically frozen people from the 20th century to 2300AD.
I want to believe!
*Talkie-Toaster aka ‘The-being-concerned-with-toasting-bready-products-and-providing-light-mealtime-conversation’ Lv 19.98 Now with 23% less slime! Available at all ‘Red Dwarf Curiosity and Joke shops’ found at better malls throughout the French Arm. Management is not responsible for this being eating your toast first. Some individuals have been known to get just a bit too enthusiastic about toast making, please return any un-smashed samples to the management care of Grant&Naylor.
Seriously, ever notice just how the physical description of Ylii, especially the Deltas, come close to the classic Alien-UFO image (see http://alien-ufo-research.com/alien_pictures/)? Oh sure there are plenty of differences but those could be explained away by the extreme unreliability/variability of the UFO reports/a Ylii encounter suit/Ylii dying of space radiation exposure or too long in weightlessness etc, etc. The spherical Ylii ships could look like saucers because they have [a ring of sensor arrays/a ring of plasma exhaust vents/are an earlier versions etc, etc]. For weapons Ylii are known to employ a neural disrupting technology which I suppose could also be used to read/erase/damage/alter your memories. So they really are trying to steal your thoughts unless of course you are wearing a hat made out of tinfoil
The Ylii are said to have encountered the Kafers about 300 years ago, so that could put it sometime within the 20th century. Imagine if the Ylii about that time launched one or several long range Expeditions that went past the Kafers and made it all the way to Earth. The Expedition could be by [a lone visionary Delta/official Ylii government probe] for the purpose of [scientific inquiry/finding allies vs. the Kafers]. The Expedition did not deal with the closer Pentapods because [the area of Pentapod space was smaller back then and they were missed/as believers in letting fate take it’s course the Ylii refused to have anything to do with a species that would think nothing of forced altering one of it members into becoming a sentient toaster*]. The Expedition spent some years around Earth collecting samples, making crop circles and dealing with shadowy US government agents etc before returning because of [Kafer attacks were going to cut off their route/collected all they needed to know/witnessed (?started?) the Twilight War and concluded that humanity was crazier than the Kafers] whereupon the ship was [forgotten/beset by Kafers and damaged, the ship drifted into an asteroid field/crashed in Roswell/eaten by Cthulu]. Most evidence of the Expedition is [in a private collection of an eccentric billionaire/in a US govt warehouse/on a Ylii world held by the Kafers, held by a cabal of Ylii]. The PCs could stumble into any one of these threads and be drawn deeper and deeper in. Truly perceptive PCs could wonder at the amazing similarity between the music of certain Ylii hill tribes and that of the 20th century Earth musician Elvis Presley…
Anyways, there was a thread in this forum a while back on Cryogenics (http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=14185) and I have to think that the superior Ylii technology would be a much more realistic way to bring some cryogenically frozen people from the 20th century to 2300AD.
I want to believe!
*Talkie-Toaster aka ‘The-being-concerned-with-toasting-bready-products-and-providing-light-mealtime-conversation’ Lv 19.98 Now with 23% less slime! Available at all ‘Red Dwarf Curiosity and Joke shops’ found at better malls throughout the French Arm. Management is not responsible for this being eating your toast first. Some individuals have been known to get just a bit too enthusiastic about toast making, please return any un-smashed samples to the management care of Grant&Naylor.
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