User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The United Republic of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20150630050104/@comment-26322734-20150630060254

If you want to talk about the real world, then look at all we've survived so far. We've beaten things bigger than us to extinction, we've built entire civilizations. Self preservation doesn't take knowledge or wisdom. It's pure instinct. That's why neither side nuked each other during the Cold War (though they did come close a few times); because nobody wants to die. Nobody wants to nail the coffin on the human race. And still, the average human in the 41st Century is vastly different from the average human of the 21st. First of all, they're more intelligent -- superior in almost every way, actually.



Kazzack spreads, yeah. His process of spreading is through converting subatomic particles into his consciousness, literally becoming the environment itself. He's something of a virus more than a person. He can't just automatically control something, though. It's a process.



Hey, man, don't just dismiss something because it doesn't seem likely. Keep an open mind. Most scientists actually simply propose it as a theory and not just absolute fact. It's explained pretty well.