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Aki:
All right. Why do you think we've never been able to determine a relationship between the human-sized Phantoms and the giant ones roaming the wastelands?

Neil:
Excuse me Doc, but… what friggin' relationship? I mean, you got your human-sized Phantoms, a-a-and your creepy, caterpillary Phantoms, and your flying Phantoms, and let's not forget my personal favorite, the big fat giant Phantoms!

Jane:
Down boy!

Ryan:
He's right. If you spent as much time in the field as we have, you know there is no relationship. It's like a zoo out there.

Aki:
Precisely! I think the giant ones are like our whales, or elephants.

Neil:
But why would an invading army bring a bunch of whales and elephants along for the ride? Unless their ship was some kind of a crazy Noah's arc.

Dr. Sid:
: Hmm. W-w-we have always assumed that the meteor was intended as a form of transportation. Perhaps it wasn't.

Aki:
The meteor is a chunk of their planet that got thrown into space when they destroyed their world.

Neil:
But how could they survive the trip across outer space on a chunk of rock?

Aki:
They didn't.

Neil:
Oh. This is all beginning to make a creepy kind of sense.