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The Greys

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NOTE: Posting both my Dreamlander Grey concepts and Per's Orionian Greys. It was mentioned back on OZC, however, that there are several different types of Greys in the Comix universe, so if he or anyone else has a Grey variant they would like to add to this article you are welcome to do so.


Greys

Grey are a race of saucer-riding extraterrestrial beings that humans are most frequently in contact with, or at least the ones humans see most often. They have been known to have been in contact with humans since the days of the ancient civilization of Atlantis (possibly giving the them the technology now used by the Theozoologist’s saucers). However, possibly due to their long existence, the Greys have branched off into many different types and subtypes. The type that most actively seeks out human contact being the Dreamlands Greys.


Dreamlands type:

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There is a strange pocket dimension that routinely intersects the planet Earth via portals. This dimension is known as the Dreamlands and, while people have been known to enter it via dreams, a group of Greys found a way to generate their own artificial Crosspoints and physically enter or leave it at will. These Greys, finding the dimension interesting, set up a permanent colony in a small continent on the dimension’s southwest.

As the years went by, however, this small colony of Greys seemed to become increasingly twisted and sociopathic. This corruption of the psyche may have been due to the fact that the Dreamlands were born from the collective dreams of the Great Old Ones slumbering in R'lyeh, infecting the minds of the telepathic Greys with the twisted minds of the Great Old Ones. Another theory is that a twisted being currently known as B’rukthu had a hand in warping the minds of these Dreamlands colonizers.

Whatever the reason, the Dreamlands Greys routinely make humans the subject of their cruel, sociopathic pranks. These pranks, done for no better reason than for shits and giggles, usually include: abducting humans to either perform bizarrely sadistic (sometimes sexual) experiments on them and/or tell them (completely made-up) stories about their “home planet”, their “alien masterplan,” or some such bogus story; making crop circles then laughing at the humans who try to imitate it or decipher some message from it; harassing aircraft or flying by buildings; abducting and mutilating pets or livestock; unleashing Dreamlands creatures or crazy genetic experiments (such as the yeti and the Chupacabras) on the world; and other such activities.

There are two subtypes of Dreamlands Greys, the Tall Grey and the Short Grey. The Tall Greys are rarely seen off their saucers and the only ones seen up close by Blacksuits were the bodies from the crash site at Roswell. Tall Greys, like humans, are separated into male and female. They can communicate telepathically and the alien “voices” heard by humans are from them.

Short Greys are sexless homunculi created by the Theozoologist, which he sells to interested alien (or other) buyers. The Tall Greys make use of a customized variant of these homunculi to function as servants. They do most of the tasks the Tall Greys find menial and are genrally treated in a somewhat abusive manner by the Tall Dreamlands Greys. They seem to be no smarter than highly-trained animals and since they don’t have any genitalia, the Tall Greys don’t bother with giving them clothes. They are the type most commonly seen by humans outside the saucers


The Orionian Greys

Possibly the most commonly encountered type of Grey aside from their Dreamlander descendants - which still means that their contact with humans is rather limited, the Orionian Greys (High Orionian: Ehveeksa'y) are called so for their territories synchronously including all of the stars in the Orion constellation.

Politically, the billions of different Orionian Grey cultures found across planets, habitats and city-ships are united in a very loose federation nominally an empire with the standardized conlang High Orionian (a vastly simplified dialect of Uikkekk'aarnk) as its lingua franca, which through the last thousand years has gained a fair chunk of the power vacuum in the galaxy following the Great Ice Wars. This unfortunately causes the almighty conqueror Mogar, who has mostly convinced his subjects that the Great Ice Wars never happened, to latently dislike the Orionians but never quite getting around either for reasons of convenience or the Imperial Orionian Intelligence's efficient spreading of misinformation about rather... unconventional... superweapons they are alleged to possess. (such as the Least Understandable Joke In The Universe, supposedly so bizarre that trying to understand it causes your cogitant organs to explode)

That said, though, the Orionians (or to be exact, the Uikkekk'aorhh whose culture has had some amount of influence upon nearly all of today's Orionian Grey cultures) have a much longer history in interstellar politics. Back in the days before the Second Great Cataclysm when the First Onommu Dynasty treated Earth as a curiosity at best due to its lack of exostrategic importance, these Greys entered a pact with fellow astro-imperialists the Chitauri wherein they were awarded the northern half of the continent Lemuria. Their eugenics programs aimed at remaking early humanity in the image of themselves yielded the Northern Lemurians, who today are almost extinct on Earth as those who survived the Second Great Cataclysm were assimilated by the Muvians and Hyperboreans. Thus, before the dawn of the today far more numerous ScandinAliens (who are mostly of Hyperborean extraction), the Uikkekk'aorhh brought humans of (in this case superficially) Nordic countenance to the stars along with much other life of Terran origin, terraforming a few planets to the demands of their "designer subalterns". Barn owls MAY be a result of a time-travelling Orionian Grey Mad Scientist attempting to do the same thing with birds.

Speaking of the relationship between the Orionians and the reptilian Chitauri, it has diplomatically been turbulent throughout the millennia as it oscillated between alliance and outright war, often middle way of seemingly friendly rivalry. It probably reached its all-time nadir (or peak, depending on your frame of reference) during the Orionian Civil War instigated by the Chitauri which, contrary to popular spacer belief, has little to do with the Bellatrax Secession. Today, the Chitauri and Orionians seem to avoid contact after their last crossing of blades ended with a narrow victory to the Orionians.

Due to being spread over so many planets, the Orionians are probably the most racially diverse Greys (at least as many being a pale purplish blue rather than grey) - though most have the height expected of a Tall Grey it's not uncommon to see an Orionian standing almost two and a half metres tall. Due to this and mostly unrelated cultural attitudes separating even the furthest fringes of the Orionians vastly from the Dreamlands Greys (who haven't made any active effort to communicate with the Orionians ever since each faction decided the other was too crazy to even aknowledge), humans interacting with Orionian Greys generally find them much more genuinely intimidating and less straightforwards freakish than the Dreamlanders.

Another, perhaps the most interesting, notable aspects of the Orionians' biology is that unlike the Dreamlanders their population has come through a retrovirus to consist of one third males, one third females and a final third of true hermaphrodites possessing fully functional male AND female genitalia. (ie. NOT intersexuals) The impact of this upon Orionian society has perhaps been the single biggest change in ideas in their recorded history of ideas (Orionian philosophy - if you're human, best not try to even comprehend its basics or you'll have a nervous breakdown, much like many but not all Orionians have when trying to understand human thought), not only due to the resulting realignment of gender roles but also due to its human origin. See, the immortal manipulator and agent of the Tutor Race (with whom the Uikkekk'aorhh claim some amount of connection in the past) known as the Theozoologist today collaborated with Orionians back in the 19th century on a mutating retrovirus based upon the one used to exterminate the Neanderthals by making them conceive and give birth to Cro-Magnons (a virus in itself engineered from a paramentally retarded clone of a fell deity currently sleeping dormant to the fortune of Mankind somewhere in South Korea), a collaboration which later inspired him to mass-manufacture homunculi in the shape of midget Orionians. At least depending on which day of the week you ask him, but anyway Theo created the retrovirus forming the basis for both various Terran supersoldier programs and the one used by a conspiracy among the Orionians to increase the incidence of hermaphroditism.

In any case, if you were wondering why many more Orionian Greys speak German, fluent or not, than English at all, you now know... and knowing is half the battle. This is why you also should know that many Orionians think German is the most widely spoken language on Earth, having a premacy similar to High Orionian among themselves.

One of the most mysterious individuals among the Orionians to themselves is Iikiirtu Eikkirrhi, who displays a genuinely considerate yet very tenebrous and vague interest in the future of humanity. He and his starship Emperor of the Void, crewed mostly by female Northern Lemurian clonetroopers and Short Greys, are only an urban legend to most Orionians and the subject of many an Orrhaani opera (a form of dramatic presentation famous across the galaxy, originated among the Orionians) symptomatic of the strange - and often quit factually incorret - notions many Orionian Greys have of Terra and Eikhirrhi being perhaps the Orionian in recent memory to have the most contact with humans. One of them even credits Eikkhirrhi with travelling back in time to create the elephant seals for the sole reason that humans should have an animal to call an elephant seal.

Of course, there is the fact that Orrhaani opera tends to depict elephant seals as resembling a cross between a lobster and a marmot but with cat-like ears and whiskers... and usually being the size of a bus. Even if any Orionian willing to do the research can find out with the click of a telekinesiotactile button how an elephant seal looks, realism has never been high on the list among Orrhaani dramaturgists.

Elephant seals.
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