I feel like there should have been a lot more fringers coming out of the woodwork - religious types of every stripe claiming it to be the work of their flavor of divine or demonic powers and/or wanting to spread the good news of Sephiroth/Vectron/The Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster/etc. to the poor benighted otherworlders, UFO nuts with their own near-religious explanations dressed up in pseudoscience, anti-technology types who want to go through and settle because obviously a world without the pollution and exploitation of an industrial society will be a paradise, gold rushers who want to go through and deploy modern sensors to claim the best resources for exploitation before other corporate rivals can and buy them for glass beads and geometric blankets because they took exactly the wrong lessons from US history, criminals who want to go through and load up on the gold coins computer games have trold (okay, that's a typo but it's funny so I'm keeping it) them are the financial basis of all preindustrial "fantasy" settings, pacifist protesters who insist that the original attacks must have been caused by some kind of misunderstanding or inadvertent provocation and that rather than soldiers and tanks it should be diplomats in unarmed civilian style vehicles (just armoured enough to resist arrows and swords in case of further misunderstandings, the more moderate ones allow) etc. And of course, journalists like a swarm of locusts, whether freelance or affiliated.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus