The King seems a little offended but nods to continuing in the great hall and leads everyone in to it. Sitting upon the throne...

"No. We weren't space aged, in fact we didn't even have fueled powered vehicles. We had rudimentary firearms that used gunpowder. Swords, spears, daggers. These were our weapons of choice then. No flying vehicles, only sailing ships that took to the water, nothing else. When the beasts kidnapped us and then died off, we were forced to survive on our own. We struggled, thousands died before we could figure out how to progress. So as you put it...we scavenged. We had to figure things out and adapt them to our needs. It took millennia to finally get to where we were. No other people or species to trade with us. No one to shows us how to work things. We lost three cities and tens of millions of lives when we stumbled upon advanced reactors and had no clue what they were. The end result was three immense craters in the earth. Don't let what you see fool you. Scavenged or not, we had to earn every bloody thing you see. We sweated, bled and died to get to where we are. Here, let me show you what the beasts looked like."

He waves his hand over a small crystal dome in the thrones handle and a holo image appears showing their kidnappers

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This is all you now as to whether or not you want to recognize it as one of your kind or not.