Is that a lizzard in your pocket?

[Guest]

Or are you just glad to see me?

You watch TV shows like Star Trek and everybody is so nice, they all look the same, human, just with an extra bump on their heads or something but with the exception of the Klingons everybody is entirely too well mannered, which is probably not how things really are.

You see the problem with evolution is that meat is far more easier for animals to digest, rather than vegetable matter, leaves, roots and other plants to some animal hoping to evolve might eat.

Meat is high in protein and easy for the body to process, leaving the consumer with a abundance of extra energy to help him evolve other things like the brain, if needed.
Vegetarian animal bodies use the energy they gain from eating food to develop that same digestive system, since it is such a difficult process to digest vegetable matter.

In fact archaeologist will tell you, when running across the fossils of some animal they have never encounter before, if it has a small brain and big stomach then it was probably a vegetarian.

Which is the problem, is what you find, what you expect to find that most highly evolved animals are meat eater, hunters, killers, who grow up to evolve into an intelligent race of killers, it is just how things work, unfortunately.

So what you'd really expect to find is a universe full of barbarians and not all the kind and gentle people that you see on TV.

What is more, a good portion of them are likely to be lizzards.

You see life, all life usually begins in the sea.
Water being one of the basic primary components for life,
So the first forms of life that exist are aquarian, fish and such sort.
And in order to get into space you must first get out of the ocean, so the first forms of life that you are likely to see in space are the lizards, reptiles, amphibians, etc.

Well that is all fine and good but you see along with being the first to go up upon land and the first to venture out into space they are also the most primate lifeforms, so most of their time is spent in the old fashion way of trying to find things to eat, consume, kill, etc, etc, etc.

As animals do not really ever change their nature, they just refine it.

And what a horror and shock it would be to for a simple human to go out into space only to find that he was surrounded by millions of lizzard races that got their eons before he did and don't much care for these none lizzard types.

You see, as legend goes, lizzards as mentioned were the first life into space, they got along all nicely killing each other off for fun but eventually they found other forms of life that were not lizard like.
Certainly not human but something other than lizards.
The lizards decided to keep them around as pets and had fun torturing them, but since the lizards are so primitive and function on the most base and primary animalistic desires they found that their pets, slaves, soon passed them by and became their masters.

Of course these creatures thought quite well of themselves, though had become a bit sadistic from their resent past of being slaves to lizards evolved fast and dominate all of the lizard creatures they formally served.
But tragically, more advanced, the lizzards far outnumbered their new masters and rose up to destroy most of them.

So bitter from the reparations that was brought upon them they made a pact, federation, union of lizzard supremacists that vowed to annihilate all other forms of life in the galaxy that were not lizzards of one nature or another.

They hunted many races down and destroyed entire planets to strip them off all other intelligent forms of life that were not of the lizzard union.
cept fish, they let the fish be, viewing them as their ancestors looked kindly on them.
And yes, or course what defined what a lizzard was is a vast and expansive definition but not one that warm blooded hairy humans would ever be able to fit into.

Eventually they completely dominated their portion of the galaxy and expanded to meet other lizzard races not previously known about to ask them to join in their homicidal rampage across all space and time.

Eventually they stumbled upon our fair little planet, which was not very hard seeing how draconis prime is only a short 7 light years away, one of our closest neighbors.

And or course, being dinosaurs we were accepted immediately into the reptillian confederation. But the dinosaurs were too vain and wished themselves to me masters of the galaxy, as in addition to destroying all other forms of life the reptillians spent a great deal of time battling with each other for supremacy over the Empire.
But alas, the dinosaurs were defeated, which is standard Time War procedure to try and destroy the enemy