Posted by TraineeHuman
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As for "details", gory or otherwise, let me offer this. The land-based form was about two or three feet tall, but quite long – maybe as long as a dolphin today. It had a shape which was oddly similar to that of the Australian platypus. You can look up platypuses on the internet, I guess. It was several times bigger than a platypus and it had a long “snout” like a horse instead of the duck bill that the platypus has. But they both usually have a body covered with brown fur, as far as I remember, and a huge broad tail. The fur may well have been what they wore to keep warm, though. Maybe also not unlike a giant brown horse-like rabbit, minus long ears.
The most vivid memory I have is that not long before the land-based ones escaped from the tyranny, some of them had large chunks of steel inserted in their bodies, particularly in one of the front limbs and near the shoulder. This made movement excruciatingly painful for them, and also adversely affected their hearts. Somehow all the land-based ones knew that this had been done to some of them.
I don’t know if it was some sort of attempt to half-robot-ise these creatures, but I do know it was horribly painful for them. I also know that it backfired, completely. It spurred them on to develop their technology more quickly, even though they had to do so in secret. The guardian angels were shocked by the metal insertions, and did intervene to a greater degree than they would be willing to do today. Unless, of course, the ruling elite should become foolish enough to try to half-robot-ise the human population. I’m pretty sure the higher ET races would simply not tolerate such a move. I don’t remember all the details of all the oppression that happened. But I remember that this was the worst thing.