Talk:Sea Emperor/@comment-72.168.177.203-20161127013021/@comment-96.44.121.37-20170113064049

Fair point. I mean look at the ethereals from Xcom: Enemy unknown/Enemy within and Xcom 2.

Spoiler alert for if you never played xcom before and want to experience it for a blind playthrough.

The ethereals are a species that possess a psionic gift, (basically teleknesis and telepathy.) however at a great cost. Their bodies suffered severe muscle atrophy (muscle degeneration.) to the point of them on the verge of death. Desperate they went from world to world to look for a species that was both strong in physical form and in psionics to transer their consiousness to that form. At first the numerous species they encountered looked capable of those traits, however several species were alienated when the ethereals attempted to uplift them and lacked the psionic "gift" after they were uplifted. That's when they came across the human race and began both abucting them and terrorizing them. (Apparently in Xcom 2 we lost) After defeating Xcom (the organization.) they ironically decided to spare humanity and created ADVENT, a pseudo-goverment that created massive city centers for humans to live in, built gene therapy "clinics" to cure multiple diseases (Cancer, Malaria, AIDS, etc.) and last except not least lied saying that the goverments attacked the aliens first instead of vice virsa. However as you play the game and complete story missions you discover that Advent is abducting people from the gene therapy "clinics" and processing them into a vial of human DNA (thing held over a million people in one and it wasn't near complete!) that then was used to create the soldiers of Advent and a unknown creature of monsterous psionic power. After doing what was necessary we find something called the Avatar to be the creature that we took and that it's the new host body for the ethereals, a single humanoid like organism that composed of a unknown number of humans used to create one (probably over 1 million people + large amount of alien DNA = 1 avatar.

Yeah I know. The story's dark but at the same time complex and interesting.

Interesting fact : The ethereals are thought to be over a thousand years old.