u/BrekLasnar

I've been mesmerized by 40k lore as of recent and I find myself searching and watching short clips and I just honestly want to start reading the books myself. I heard people recommend just pick any book up but then I hear of the story of Horus Heresy which is basically a prequel to the current setting and I heard there's stories that prequels even Horus Heresy. So is there any neat list of the books leading up to Horus heresy and after it?

Hello. I've always been fascinated by aliens and UFOs since childhood, but the concept of space travel always gave me pause. Light speed ships sound compelling but how would any civilization realistically navigate a universe packed with asteroids, neutron stars, black holes, and everything else trying to kill you? The sheer logistics of arriving here safely felt impossible to me, which actually pushed me toward thinking any non human intelligence we encounter might not be extraterrestrial at all, but something of Earth origin that has simply been around longer than us, operating out of sight.

That said, I've been reading about travel methods that sidestep raw speed entirely, things like space manipulation and wormholes. It also got me thinking about how evolution doesn't follow a straight line. It chases efficiency. An alien species could have evolved cognitive abilities so far beyond ours that they perceive things we can't even measure, dark matter interaction, dimensional awareness, who knows.

So what is the most theoretically sound method by which an extraterrestrial civilization could have actually reached us?

I genuinely wish to ask people if there's any sources on this that isn't just Islamic. For some reason this has been said that Muhammad stopped this practice where people killed girls when they were born because of this and that. Though ironically Islam has festered such an ideology where a Muslim genuinely considers it is better to bury a daughter because of how their society is regarding women.

But Muhammad's wife thrived in those times and any women after didn't. It is framed as some widely practiced thing but it sounds dumb because how would such a small population even survive to begin with if they killed their female population after they're born?

I honestly do not believe it or rather it might have been a very small practice done in obscurity but genuinely I just don't think there's any evidence of such.