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I’ve only read the first book.

Giant spiders that mistake a malfunctioning satellite with the AI prosona of their creator for a god and repeatedly try to solve mathematical equations that are nothing more than a test of intelligence. Plus they will enslave the ants.

Sorry, am I supposed to understand this? Because I don’t.

I’ve only read the first two books (in publication order).

We aren’t balanced on top of a turtle?

Tasha Yar has entered the chat.

I kept seeing post on Mastodon to get people to dress up as apes and bury the Statue of Liberty in the ocean.

The Progenitors only created a handful of Humanoid species across planets.

Star Trek: Voyager has a specific answer to this question.

EDIT: To anyone unfamiliar with Star Trek, this episode of Voyager is “Distant Origin” (season 3 episode 23). In the episode, a species named Voth, encounter the remains of a Provisional Ensign Hogan who had died back in “Basics, Part II” (season 3 episode 1). Among a slim minority of the Voth science community is what is known as the Distant Origin Theory which suggest the species came from a far away place, which goes against The Doctrine, a narrow minded belief that Voth have always lived in the part of the galaxy they are currently located. During the episode it is determined that Voth and Humans share related DNA, which is later hypothesized to mean dinosaurs on Earth evolved to a point which they left the planet to live elsewhere.