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Theory: The founders came to Earth in 1982 as documented by John Carptenter in The Thing (hackertalks.com)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)

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Founders - Change shape
Thing - Change shape

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Founders - live in a giant soup and can split off from the soup at will
Thing - Can divide up the shape at any time into autonomous functional groups

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Founders - Fly in space ships
Thing - Flies in massive space ship

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Thing - Doesn't like fire
Founders - who likes fire?

I posit that the founders are the Thing, but perhaps a group of founders operating in special operations mode. Or they could be children out on founder Rumspringa like Odo was.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Founders don't need space ships to get around in space, although I'm not sure how fast they can travel without one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They don't? I only recall one time in Accession was it mentioned. For the entirety of the rest of the series they were taxied around in spacecraft, even with a few plot points of them being stranded on planets.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In Chimera (which takes place after Accession) they bumped into a changeling flying alongside their runabout in a form that was space-faring. I guess the argument would be if there exists a creature encountered by a Founder that can travel at (high) warp via some kind of biological or entirely different means than subspace manipulation.