Thread:Garr9988/@comment-5782071-20170715215246/@comment-24588058-20170916024850

I'd like to extend something here as well. We're talking a film taking place at an undetermined period of time after the finale. BUT there is one thing, with extension to the above, that has my curiosity peaked. There is no reason to think that, at that point in history, be it in X years when Claudia becomes Caretaker (anywhere up to ten years, I think) to the 50 year future jump, that humans couldn't have had contact with an alien species at that point. Whether or not it's a physical communication, or if a single species simply acknowledges our existence and mostly leaves us be is a separate issue.

As Scalec pointed out, there's no reason to think that aliens couldn't be part of the Warehouse universe. Why don't we see them? Simple. Because we simply haven't been there. Warehouse history closely follows real history, with some deviations or alterations of people and events (as to be expected when dealing with a universe where artifacts exist). In that case, most ancient alien stories either predate the Warehouse's time frame or don't align with where the Warehouse was, preventing knowledge of said event from being accepted as having occurred because of aliens or Gods. The future is unknown at this point; when will we discover other intelligent life? It could be tomorrow. It could be two hundred years from now. Maybe they have already discovered/rediscovered/ had discovered us. No one can say. But if we're making a future movie, it doesn't matter if it doesn't line up exactly as history will lead.

Before I continue, there's one other thing I'd like to add onto Scalec's point about animals and artifacts. If, say, a bird was the primary emotional response to an artifact's creation, then would it be possible that said artifact, unless falling into a process where any species could use it, only be usable by avian species of sufficient intellectual standing? Such artifacts may be few and far between, both because of how they are created and how they are activated, but it could work. I recall an early episode with an artifact being collected from a zoo, and something involving monkeys, which I suspect was the artifact's properties. Whether it was a zookeeper's hat or a banana, I don't believe we ever found out. But couldn't that have been feasibly an artifact that activates through animals (or appropriate species)?

Finally, if one were to accept the theory of aliens having either appeared or been recognized to exist, even if the Warehouse is still an Earth-based facility (and likely would remain as such for an unknown amount of time), then a possibility or two opens up for a movie plot: 1) word reaches the Warehouse of an aggressive species of aliens. They are attacking planets based on the fact that they have "mystical objects" which are highly dangerous, and wish to destroy them to prevent XYZ. Instead of invading said planets, which puts them at risk of falling under the effects of artifacts, they simply launch an asteroid at planets.


 * Side note: Even if most planets successfully blew up an asteroid that would wipe out most/all life as we know it, you'd still have millions of pieces of debris hurtling towards the planet that you would have to deal with. And unless there's a planetary defense shield or a way to have it simply pass through the planet, life is doomed at that point anyway. Maybe not to as dangerous a degree, but it would be extremely unpleasant regardless.

2) Perhaps the meteor/asteroid is an artifact created by an unknown alien civilization? Perhaps its effects involve the destruction of habitable planets? And as an artifact, it isn't as susceptible to normal destruction means, like how the Grenade from the Furherbunker can explode twice and remain undamaged. That also adds the extra challenge of containing it, as it would be pulled to habitable planets, and even if you could somehow either move it or fool it, it would simply continue on its destructive path. Without being able to destroy it, the Warehouse would have to come up with a way to properly contain it AND/OR somehow prevent its activation (like how Maui's Fishhook is in a volcano).

Both of these possibilities also open up an interesting, and challenging, possibility: the exposure of the Warehouse. I mean, sure, a few people know about artifacts. And fewer still know of the existence of the Warehouse. But what if all of the things happening result, or could result in, the exposure of the Warehouse? How does the Warehouse deal with such a possibility? Even if, in the moment, the world was find with accepting the Warehouse's ability to help, you know the aftermath would become a political deathfield for the United States (as the host country who, apparently, has barely the knowledge of this place's existence) and the Warehouse (who, assuming they wouldn't face invasion attempts to get into the Warehouse, would surely have dozens of countries requesting they move to their land or demanding the sharing or access to the Warehouse and its artifacts). Does the Warehouse have a plan in mind should such an event occur?