Talk:Communications Relay/@comment-99.26.71.24-20160416034552

I just had a thought about some of these radio messages. Specifically, "''Subject 11783 destroyed. Switch mode: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1." and "Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode switch: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject location with other agents." ''Whoever or whatever sent those two messages was almost certainly referring to survivors of the Aurora crash, but it is interesting to me that whoever or whatever it was doesn't refer to the human survivors as "invaders" or "prey" or simply "targets," like you might expect hostile aliens would when a human ship crashed on their planet. He/she/it refers to the survivors as "subjects," which to me is far more disturbing than any of the alternatives I listed. It seems...scientifc. Almost clinical, in the most disturbing way possible. It's as if whatever seems to be hunting the survivors is testing the abilities of humans to survive on their world, for whatever reason.