Greys

The Greys of Zeta Reticuli, or Reticulans, are an advanced space-faring alien race with a galactic colonial empire. Their language is the official and almost only language of planet Earth and is rendered in Flesh Kernel as English.

Greys are artificial, and can live up one to two thousand years. They possess a specific organ, the Cranial Gland, which allows them to communicate with the Dark Ocean and thus manipulate perception of conscious beings and partially affect physical reality in the immediate proximity of the latter. An individual Grey belongs to a "clan", which is a kind of "template" for physical and personality traits, and appears as a mark on the forehead around the orifice of the gland.

Greys colonise a planet by sending a Fathership containing artificially-produced embryos for crew. On arrival, the crew is born and begins a 100 year period of reconnaissance through abduction and cattle mutilation. The invasion proper happens first on a plane of psychic manipulation through thought insertion ("beaming") and then through actual establishment of an efficient planetary colony.

Earth was first reached by Fathership Alpha around the 1930s, and then properly established as a Reticulan colony around the 2030s. As is usual for Reticulans, they introduced other alien species to the planet, originally as slaves, in the first decades of colonial Earth. These include the Damorran, Squid People, Slime People and others.

Greys are implied to have been involved in the past in military or political conflict with Martians. Martians are nevertheless currently allowed as citizens of Earth.

Greys are exclusively male and have no regular means to reproduce. They are however able to mate with females of different species to produce Hybrids. The motivations behind this practice are not explained. At any rate, Greys set up harems of concubines of different species for the sake of producing hybrids.

Important Greys

 * Alistair MacDerrick