A few centuries ago, people started reporting aliens landing from strange ships and wearing really weird hats of an unknown metal. and somehow blending with four-legged organisms when traveling, for speed, and then un-blending at will, and wielding very advanced weaposn that worked on some kind of principle of sound and light energy combined. Wiser heads, of course, dismissed these fanciful, superstitious tales, until the Conquistadors actually rode up and killed them.


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