Interplanetary radio signals from future Martian potatoes
Reduced to the level of slime footed molluscs during the Golden Age of potato dominance on Earth, humans eventually recovered sentience through access to the secreted wisdoms sucked from ancient ruined cities. Even when not understood, this knowledge could be shared and copied, which unfortunately resulted in repeated acts of catastrophic mass extinctions. Humans would seemingly go to any lengths to regain their own fictitious Golden Age.
Interplanetary radio signals from future Martian potatoes
As the pampered pets of potatoes families, humans were bred for a life of pleasure, to graze on specially prepared foods and sleep on soft beds. Human females were only able to conceive after decade-long matings. Eventually their throbbing egg pods became bloated before violently releasing fully mature human adults. This kept their population numbers low, as many potatoes became easily bored by their human pets.
Interplanetary radio signals from future Martian potatoes
When a hyper-sentient species of galactic potato nomads arrived on Earth, they saw the residual humans as nothing more than infidels. Their idolatrous attempts to remodel the planet to their needs went against the universal principles of life adapting themselves to planets, rather than the other way around. Within a few generations, human descendants were remodelled to exist in gentle symbiosis with their diminished planet, where everyone could find happines as part of one unified whole. They were later unfortunately wiped out in a catastrophic Ice Age.
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Ancient archival image of what is believed to be the original photographic item in Getty Museum’s collection. The image captures an intimate moment in the emerging coming into being of an unnamed tuber’s renaissance, following the seasonal dormancies that for Martian potato colonists can last for many solar years. Its naked candour was shocking at the time.
Potato Liberation Trust
To get involved with the fight for Potato-Human just relations, please visit The Potato Liberation Trust who are now 'Activists in Residence' at The Arcs Community Hybrid Forum.
Informed by Koseman, C.M. 2025. All Tomorrows the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man. Wilton Square Books London.