Grey Alien

Grey Aliens (also known as Greys, Martians, Reticulans, or Sauroids) are small, gray-skinned aliens. Behind an archetypical Grey is a great and impulsive curiosity that cannot be sated--one that leads to biotechnological crimes, or at minimum, ill-fated sci-fi shenanigans.
== Behavior and Key Features ==
=== Beyond Basic Needs ===
"They eat with their mouths..? I think I'm going to be violently ill..." --Grey alien, upon encountering a cowCrypto-137, Destroy All HumansGreys have evolved technologically and culturally beyond most human habits. While humans eat dinners, Greys attach nutrient slurry canisters to their cybernetic suits. While humans reproduce the old fashioned way, Greys are mass-cloned in vat-factories. The life of a Grey is often spartan and militaristic, and the stories of Greys carousing are few and far between.
Greys are often biological "structure purists"--biomods are accepted if they improve one's brain or internal organs, but external physical changes (from tattoos to obvious cybernetics) are taboo.Fanon extrapolation from military/conformity themes above
=== What it Means to be a Grey ===
It is possible that Greys represent less palatable aspects of military life, scientific academia, and conformity. A rogue Grey may be looking for something more creative in their life, or has too much empathy to go through with their stellar empire's evil plans.
Another take, established in the 1993 SciFi movie Official Denial is the Gray are humans from Earth's distant future who are traveling to the past to get samples to try and reproduce the many species they have wiped out.
=== What's That Smell? ===
Greys have no sense of smell. While this tends to be useful for missions without their space helmets (they're immune to Earthly pathogens anyway), this does leave them vulnerable to subterfuge. A grey who's been disguised as a hot dog vendor will have no idea he smells like hot dogs after changing disguises... and a grey could have no idea if some savvy g-man has started a gas leak in the farm house he's just entered...
== Equipment and Loadout ==
Greys are small, and not particularly strong, relying on ultra-tech weaponry and biotech minions. From warriors to bioengineers, almost any Grey can use a laser pistol. Its precise beam ignores ballistics, like gravity and wind, and readily punches through cover and armor . While campy Greys might use bright, retro pistol designs, a more nuance Grey will use compact, stealthy weapons that make a subtle, waterlike hiss when fired.
=== Strike Team Zeta ===
It's midnight. You and your team are investigating some troll-poachers in northern Norway. In the brisk evening haze, you can just barely see a shooting star as it falls to earth--but it's too close, too colorful, and it's dropped right where your local troll-cave is. By the time you reach the site, you find but a single troll left, who managed to disguise itself as a boulder. There's burn marks on the cave walls, and patches where the snow has been melted away. Something took these creatures, something with tiny feet and a whole lot of firepower... Strike Team Zeta is a group of Greys that specialize in capturing cryptozoological specimens. While that might sound like it would make your job easier, it doesn't--every creature they abduct comes back later, but modified, which shuffles a whole lot of wildcards into the mix. 
Fire-resistant trolls, brain parasites, chupacabras with hands? All modified by zetans, and re-deposited by the Strike Team. What they can't capture, they burn to ash, preventing MIBs and other control groups from analyzing these cryptids. 
== Silver Skies, Grey Skies ==
Grey shuttlecraft are radar-stealthed by default, although they may still be visible to the naked eye, traveling the skies on dark nights or during inclement weather. Vessels often utilize chameleon-skin or cloaking technology, flying in near-silence until . The saucer or C-shaped vessel is a timeless classic.Pyramid 3/102: Epic, p.22.
=== Saucer Crew ===
* Three control crew, lightly armed and busy pressing buttons
* Two scientists, usually synthesizing strange chemicals or designing clones
* One telepath, key to the operation. They operate the psi-tech machines.
* One technician, for the engine room. 
* Two combat-ready Greys, with armored hardsuits and laser carbine / tanglers, used for securing/restraining specimens and protecting the scientists.
== See Also ==
* Monster Hunters
== In the Multiverse ==
It is possible that the "gray men of the Moon" mentioned in Iotha's backstory were, in fact, Greys, who seemingly occupied part of Berlin. 
== Other Theories ==
The Greys may actually be humans from a far distant future, such as outlined in Official Denial (1993) and "The Origin of Species" (November 27, 1998) of Season 4 of the 1990s version of The Outer Limits (1990s).
== External Links ==
* TV Tropes: The Greys
* "Transhuman Aliens" TVTropes
== References ==
* Monster Hunters 5: Applied Xenology, p.29 
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