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They're in interstellar space, using an FTL drive, but the First Contact team who met up with them can't figure out how or why -- by all rights they should be stuck on their homeworld because they've barely figured out atomic power, or steel, or starting fire with flint. They're an anomaly. Sometimes it's because they've stolen a technology they don't know how to create themselves. Sometimes a Precursor race gave it to them or left them instructions on how to build it. Sometimes it's a simple fluke. But whatever the reason, they've made their way into space far earlier than other civilizations might think possible.

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  • They're in interstellar space, using an FTL drive, but the First Contact team who met up with them can't figure out how or why -- by all rights they should be stuck on their homeworld because they've barely figured out atomic power, or steel, or starting fire with flint. They're an anomaly. Sometimes it's because they've stolen a technology they don't know how to create themselves. Sometimes a Precursor race gave it to them or left them instructions on how to build it. Sometimes it's a simple fluke. But whatever the reason, they've made their way into space far earlier than other civilizations might think possible.
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  • They're in interstellar space, using an FTL drive, but the First Contact team who met up with them can't figure out how or why -- by all rights they should be stuck on their homeworld because they've barely figured out atomic power, or steel, or starting fire with flint. They're an anomaly. Sometimes it's because they've stolen a technology they don't know how to create themselves. Sometimes a Precursor race gave it to them or left them instructions on how to build it. Sometimes it's a simple fluke. But whatever the reason, they've made their way into space far earlier than other civilizations might think possible. Instincts towards self-disparagement aside, Humanity itself is not likely to become one of these unless some nice aliens show up to give us a bunch of presents or show us how much more efficient what we've got could be. Wimpy though our tech may be, we have unquestionably made it ourselves and deserve to be at the level we're at. Contrast with Sufficiently Advanced Alien and Aliens Never Invented the Wheel. Sub-Trope to Low Culture, High Tech. Examples of Insufficiently Advanced Alien include:
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