The Altarian Republic

Because the Altarians look exactly like humans. Exactly. We have not met one in person but we do have enough exchanges with them to know that they are either carrying out a very broad deception or that they truly look like us.  It is telling that one of the early Arcean communications we had mistook us for an Altarian colony which lends credence that they really do look just like us.

Of course, a sizeable portion of the scientific community, as you’ve no doubt seen in the media, believe it’s an elaborate hoax and that the Altarians are merely trying to appear to us in a way that will comfort us for either good or evil reasons. 

There is so far no scientific reason for why the Altarians look like humans. Despite what some early science fiction entertainment would lead you to believe, the human animal is a freak of nature visually. There is no reason to think that an alien race should look human at all (let alone look like humans with a different nose ridge or something). The Arceans, Drengins and Torians are extremely alien (and we won’t even touch on what the heck the Yor are supposed to be). 

 

Yet here are the Altarians, they look just like us. Their culture is extremely different than ours however.  There are also a number of other anomalies with regards to the Altarians – they seem to possess super natural powers by our standards. Reports say that they can manipulate energy without the aid of technology.  In short, they can levitate objects or even harm others in combat from a distance without the aid of a weapon. Not that this is particularly meaningful in an age of particle beam weapons but it is still very strange.

Hopefully once our hyperdrive star ships reach their home world we can have normalized relations with them and our researchers can begin to learn more about them and dispel the numerous myths growing about them on Earth.