Is there a space story that is a prequel to Earth?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

BSG sort of touched on the notion of Earth being the 13th Colony, but does anything go deeper?

Space stories are usually set in the future from our time. But what if exploration existed long before Earth (which it may have).

An advanced species does intergalactic travel at will. But, as in all cultures, there are those who misbehave. They are stripped of their knowledge and technology and sent to an uninhabited rock as a form of punishment. This would have been millions of years before the time we know.

 

[BoomerD]

How would we know?

I’ve often wondered iff we were “seeded” on this planet by some space-going species. It would explain a lot…and makes almost as much sense as “man evolved from the apes.”

 

[nakedfrog]

The movie Prometheus has as a concept that humans were seeded onto Earth by a different alien species.

 

[lxskllr]

It's touched on in Star Trek, both TNG and VOY.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Prometheus, contact has references that predate earth, bsg, there was wing commander inspired game from the 90s called star crusader that was a prequel to 'earth' as well... Probably a crap load more in books that I'm not aware of.

 

[olds]

Something hit Mars, killing it, and blasting life to the earth. We are just Martians living on Earth.

 

[sdifox]

How did you guys miss the Holy Bible?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I'm talking about before that. When the ape like creatures from a distant galaxy sat down to write those stories to cover their colonization of Earth.

 

[sdifox]

I'm talking about before that. When the ape like creatures from a distant galaxy sat down to write those stories to cover their colonization of Earth.

How do you go before creation?

 

[K1052]

Something hit Mars, killing it, and blasting life to the earth. We are just Martians living on Earth.

Mission to Mars did an alien seeding version of this.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Literally the plot of Homeworld.

Humans on the desert planet of Kharak come to realize that they're biologically distinct from all the other lifeforms on the planet. They discover an ancient warp drive, which propels them into space.

However this breaks an ancient treaty where their decedents lost a civil war and were banished to Kharak as punishment, building the new warp drive core online and testing it violates the treaty and starts the plot of the game: Kharak burns and the survivors of the species start an almost BSG like quest to find their actual Homeworld.

There is even a section of the game where they run across The Gardens of Khadesh, members of their civilization who permanently made their home in a nebula instead of going to Kharak.

Great game, shame the sequels never managed to capture the magic of the original.

 

[nakedfrog]

How did you guys miss the Holy Bible?

It's not got much space in it, has it? Sort of skips over that bit mostly, stuff gets created, separating light and dark blah blah, anyway here's the Garden of Eden, don't eat the special fruit and so forth.

 

[sdifox]

It's not got much space in it, has it? Sort of skips over that bit mostly, stuff gets created, separating light and dark blah blah, anyway here's the Garden of Eden, don't eat the special fruit and so forth.

Universe includes space.

 

[nakedfrog]

Universe includes space.

Uh, fuckin' duh? My point is that's a very, very small part of it that's mostly handwaved as "gawwwddd did it" and then moves on. As far as being a prequel to Earth, definitely falls flat.

 

[sdifox]

Uh, fuckin' duh? My point is that's a very, very small part of it that's mostly handwaved as "gawwwddd did it" and then moves on. As far as being a prequel to Earth, definitely falls flat.

I didn't say it was a good myth.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Literally the plot of Homeworld.

Humans on the desert planet of Kharak come to realize that they're biologically distinct from all the other lifeforms on the planet. They discover an ancient warp drive, which propels them into space.

However this breaks an ancient treaty where their decedents lost a civil war and were banished to Kharak as punishment, building the new warp drive core online and testing it violates the treaty and starts the plot of the game: Kharak burns and the survivors of the species start an almost BSG like quest to find their actual Homeworld.

There is even a section of the game where they run across The Gardens of Khadesh, members of their civilization who permanently made their home in a nebula instead of going to Kharak.

Great game, shame the sequels never managed to capture the magic of the original.

Umm, no. I'm not talking about humans going somewhere and coming back.

I'm talking about before humans existed. Whatever, from whereever came here and over the centuries became human.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

How do you go before creation?

'Creation' is a fictional creation of the Human mind. It didn't happen.

 

[sdifox]

'Creation' is a fictional creation of the Human mind. It didn't happen.

We are talking fiction no?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Before the so called Big Bang, which may have been nothing more that these creatures or beings breaking through from their previous existence.

 

[nakedfrog]

Well, OP, maybe you'll just have to write it yourself!

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Umm, no. I'm not talking about humans going somewhere and coming back.

I'm talking about before humans existed. Whatever, from whereever came here and over the centuries became human.

- Well it would have to be hundred of thousands or millions of years and not "centuries" cause evolution be laggin' like that.

Sounds like you got yourself a writing prompt on your hands, hop to it!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Our understanding of space, time and the universe is centered on the Big Bang being the beginning of everything. Why? Why do we limit ourselves in that way?

How many Supernovas have we logged? Why do we insist there could have been only one Big Bang? Why couldn't our Big Bang have been just one of many, each one spawning a new 'universe' of galaxies?


They say time is timeless. Why do we limit time to have begun with what we call the Big Bang? Perhaps the billions of years we know of are just a fraction of a second in a bigger period of time.

Perhaps what we know of as humans came from one of those other big bang eras.

 

[BoomerD]

How did you guys miss the Holy Bible?

Great work of fiction...depending on the version.

 

[lxskllr]

Our understanding of space, time and the universe is centered on the Big Bang being the beginning of everything. Why? Why do we limit ourselves in that way?

I don't see why there can't be many universes. Almost everything we see is a superset of something smaller. It's likely this "universe" is just a distinct clump of stuff floating in some cosmic goo, and there's uncountable other universes expanding, and tearing apart all around it.

 

[nakedfrog]

Great work of fiction...depending on the version.

You must have low standards for fiction.

I don't see why there can't be many universes. Almost everything we see is a superset of something smaller. It's likely this "universe" is just a distinct clump of stuff floating in some cosmic goo, and there's uncountable other universes expanding, and tearing apart all around it.

Here's an interesting video on the subject, if you're so inclined.