The arachnids arrived without warning, a Type II civilization, settling once and for all the mystery of the great silence. Their technology fast outpaced ours, and we were . Well, slaughtered, more like. Whatever hivemind or distributed intelligence guided them, it must have had a Ghengis Khan thing going on. Men were quickly disposed of or occasionally sterilized in order to work as one of their technicians. Women, whatever were found having the most desirable attributes, were herded into "harems". Living quarters at the heart of their nests which they loved to build atop high rises. Here is an example of one of their enslavement techniques: it would be used after capturing an escaped subject, shiny black claws holding her ever so tenderly yet immovably in the appropriate position as her consciousness and body were reclaimed.

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