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To the humans’ surprise, the meteor comes early. It’s slated to make landfall in China, with its sheer size meaning certain doom for the first city it falls on. In order to combat this, the PLA authorises the firing of a missile into orbit, aiming to destroy it before it can land on Beijing. The pieces of indeterminate material will hopefully burn up in the atmosphere once reduced in size.
As such, there’s an internal panic when the entirety of the missile vanishes.
Minutes later, a glowing presence is sighted above Beijing.
【The Herald.】
>HP: 7/7
>Size: C
>Strength: D
>Stamina: D
>Speed: D
>Special: A
>Energy: 6/6
The alien is silent as it observes humanity, touching their minds with its own unfathomable intelligence. It leaves no markings and does no harm, only lightly brushing across their brains and absorbing every single lived experience they have. While the humans kneel down below, filling every news station with its blinding glamour, it rips through its gathered memories to form a picture of humanity. Then it goes even further, simulating their DNA and unraveling these projections to dig deeper into their genetic memory. Within seconds, thousands of years of history play out before it, and it lives a billion lives. Perhaps if it had landed elsewhere, it would have pulled something better from their collective unconscious, and gained a deeper understanding of man. But it has landed in China.