Reptiliandude: Medical records indicate that the Ael’Kayeen were simply trying to breed you to be more manageable.

When your species was first encountered, you were exceptionally violent creatures.

Your ancestors were more like the living zombies in that Will Smith movie, I am Legend than anything your own scientists today have dreamt up from their scant evidence of your earliest habitations.

The facts is, EVERYTHING Homo Erectus encountered was cut to ribbons with hand axes.

As a group you were like a one-minded lawnmower attacking and destroying anything that you feared or deemed a threat.

The records indicate that you were more of a threat to taxonomists and equipment than anything else, as you were naked and used stone weaponry that proved frustrating to defend against since most defense parameters were designed to identify heat and metallic signatures as threats.

After a successful assault against unprepared scientists, it was deemed necessary to exterminate the troupe of humans responsible and those chosen to dispatch the troublemakers later observed the young ones mourning the loss of their parents.

The Kayeen, far from home and missing their own children were taken aback by this response, and the similarities to themselves and spared a few for further study.

Upon further examination of their settlement, it was discovered that your species was occupied with the manufacture of hundreds of hand axes.

They even made what looked like trophy areas or for lack of a better term—shrines—where they left food and exhibited a sort of ‘worship’ surrounding these tools, some of them so large as to be entirely useless.

Upon further study on living tribes it was seen that you actually traded these like a form of currency, and indeed showed near mystical reverence for them.

These objects of violence were your first ‘gods.’

When my own kind fell upon this world chasing down the Kayeen, we encouraged humans to continue to make these tools as they served as a way to link other concepts to these well-established habits.

The Kayeen had previously written about this in their studies and modifications of your species.

It seemed sensible to continue where they had left off. And besides, the continued usage of these hand axes would trouble researchers and keep them occupied while we studied this planet elsewhere.

It also gave us plausible deniability when Kayeen wound up dead.

We ourselves had been using ceramic weapons to dispatch our enemies since the days of their invasion of our own home world many centuries prior.

When knowledge of Earth and your species became more public knowledge, there was actually a market for these hand axes among my own.

But that is only because it was such primitive weaponry in the past that enabled my own kind to sneak by Kayeen security defenses so many centuries prior.

It was not your humanity that we took a shine to as much as it was that you naturally knew how to get one over on a mutually hated species.

We saw potential for this in appropriating a few of you to see if you could be trained to apply more complicated warfare techniques.

The Kayeen on the other hand, after studying your genome, had other plans for Homo Erectus.

These plans eventually evolved into manipulating your genes specifically to provide harvestable subjects for their life-extension industries.

You were not domesticated for use as ‘slave labor’ as so many pundits in the UFO community claim.

You were modified to host life-threatening contagions which refused to flower under laboratory conditions.

In fact, this entire planet is now a repository of such contagions which have proven to be most obstinate on our own worlds.

Eventually, as time progressed, your species became more malleable and customized and wholesale harvesting of organs took place.

My species also capitalized upon this, not for ourselves as much as for an investment opportunity that would have been foolish to pass up.

As for our hopes that your ancestors could be used as weapons of war, that avenue proved to be overly ambitious and resulted in costly failure.

Unlike today, your ancestors lacked the cognitive abilities to appreciate the art of war.

It is our sincere hope that when the full knowledge of the tragic history of your species comes into the light, that you’ll remember that your most reliable allies have always been those with whom you might at first have felt an initial aversion to.

Although at peace now, we have both had similar histories in our exploitations at the hands of these men who proported themselves to be gods.

Yet, the part of the world you call home has always recognized the beneficent nature of ‘dragons.’

It is our hope that such a relationship may continue less mythical and more tangible terms.

Perhaps a further examination of the lunar surface might prove to provide a future commodity (helium 3) that could be linked to the yuan, much as the dollar is linked to oil commodities?

Your own mythologies spoke quite frankly about the ‘gods’ lack of concern for the affairs of men. Save of course where those affairs affected their own interests. It is only recently that humanity has deluded themselves into ignoring the experiences of the ancients, and foolishly assumed that a change of heart is in order.