Anthropologist discover a skull and partial skeleton that constitutes a new branch of the human evolutionary tree. A flurry of papers results and the diagram of the tree is re-written and every thing eventually is forgotten. <br /><br />Centuries latter humanity leaves its home system and winds up in the Frontier.<br /><br />One fine day a promising grad student notices that yazirian skulls are virtually identical to a long ago discovery, austrolofangicus, and comes up with a theory that yazirians somehow visited earth long ago- since none of the bones from the hands or feet were discovered no one realized just how radically different they were from any other ape. Their wings have no bones so those are not preserved in the fossil record either.<br /><br />so now where do you go with this for an adventure?<br />a sort of 2001 A Space Odessy sort of thing? Frontier races bring fire to the primitive proto humans?<br />or have modern Frontier races (the core 4) have somehow travelled back to earth but also the sathar have as well (maybe a SF take on Star Trek First Contact?)<br /><br />dralasites will not be in the fossil record either.<br /><br /><br />
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