Talk:Sectoid

What universe is this species from? I can only assume that this is meant as the page for the XCOM race, but I can't state that I know every media alien species in existence, so I'd prefer to ask first in hopes of procuring an answer. Either way, though, the universe it is from needs to be added in. - Somarinoa 04:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Very well - XCOM it is, then. - Somarinoa 09:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to rewrite this as X-COM Universe article (already Google it, I'm pretty sure that the name only associate with alien in X-COM series). Kuruni 11:16, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I say go for it. I've never seen any other species called Sectoids in other media, and I've certainly looked. - Somarinoa 21:50, November 29, 2009 (UTC)

This species and other XCOM aliens on this site have Mars listed as their homeworld, but by all accounts Mars was the home of another civilization that died out centuries or millenia before the First Alien War, and the Ethereals came there with the other species (Sectoids, Floaters, Snakemen, Mutons, etc) to establish a forward base for operations on Earth. None of them are meant to be natives of the Sol system, with the only possible exception in the XCOM mythos being the Gill Men of Terror From the Deep. Any others, their homeworld is an unknown variable. Some theories claim that humanity descended from the original civilization of Cydonia, with the Ethereals seeding Earth with what remained of presumably a culling of the Martian civilization to later harvest for useful materials.

In any case, the assumption that Mars is the homeworld of this amalgam alliance of races seems highly unlikely and severely flawed in reasoning, as the materials in the games make fairly clear. The most plausible explanation is that they are a coalition of sorts, each with their own homeworld somewhere far away (especially considering they pretty much all come back to haunt time and again in the mythos, in the mothballed Alliance project and in Interceptor). The coalition members are certainly vastly unequal, however, with Ethereals being the clear dominators and architects, with Sectoids and Mutons likely next in importance.

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