The plot of Edmond Hamilton's The Haunted Stars revolves around the discovery that humanity is descended from the vast interstellar empire.It's also believed Earth was seeded by an the Third Imperium, after the 5th planet was destroyed in an attack against the Second Imperium, causing the Asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs.Empire from the Ashes: Earth was colonized 50,000 years ago by the mutinous crew of the Fourth Imperium warship Dahak, which has been acting as the Moon ever since. Side note: John and Eve are Human Aliens The Greys found at the crash site were their genetically-engineered pilots. Then he falls for Katie and changes his mind. John infiltrates the Walker Air Force Base as a nuclear physicist from the Pentagon and uses his advanced tech to supercharge the atom bomb stored on the base to irradiate the entire surface of the planet. It's heavily implied that this is what they do for a living. It escaped notice for a long time, being just another Lost Colony, until some interstellar rich guy bought rights to the planet and hired John and Eve to "exterminate the vermin" crawling all over it. In the made-for-TV movie Roswell: The Aliens Attack, John reveals to Katie that Earth was settled by the crash-landed survivors of an interstellar prison transport.Outlander mentions that Earth is an " abandoned seed colony" of Kainan's species.They also killed the (sapient) dinosaurs. Also, it's one of the few examples where humanity's ancient galaxy-spanning empire still exists, and is hostile, with space humans planning to " harvest" those on Earth to make a youth serum without any ethical qualms, seeing us as essentially livestock. Jupiter Ascending: We really came from a planet named Ourus originally, and were then "seeded" on Earth 100,000 years ago.Compare Panspermia, where all life on Earth originated from space (and thus may or may not overlap with this trope) as well as Original Man, where the older form of humanity is noticeably distinct from the newer. Usually involves Advanced Ancient Humans, which is any case where the supposed Precursors were indeed human, regardless of their spatial origin. And Earth is a Lost Colony of that empire, if not the last remnant of it.Ĭontrast Transplanted Humans (humanity did originate from Earth, but some ancient humans were taken away by aliens to settle another planet) and Ultraterrestrials (supposedly "extraterrestrial" nonhumans are actually natives to Earth). Not only were ancient humans incredibly advanced, they also had a star-spanning empire. Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica (1978)ĭespite the considerable evidence that Homo sapiens evolved here on Earth, it is tempting to hypothesize that our ancestors could have come from somewhere else.
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