So they've harvested enough human worlds to know historical events, people, and places. Yet somehow they still desperately need more Milk? I wonder how often humankind evolves into the Vandrares seen in your other stories. Is it an inevitable event?

Dang, this sure is some wild worldbuilding. There's much about this setting worth contemplating.

What the actual heck did I just stumble upon...

And what the actual heck is the crossover? I don't sense any sort of crossover. Not saying that's a bad thing, just curious.

That’s our future selfs' problem.

I do love a good ironic echo.

Fascinating look at awar across space and time, all for the raw stuff of life to fuel a decaying eternity. Horrifiying and wondrous all at once. (Also, nice War of the Worlds crossover. I should’ve known given “the Germ.”)

“For now. Because their world is young. Who knows? In a hundred, a thousand years? We’ve never gone that far forward. They might eventually get smart enough to neutralize all magic in their own universe. Or other universes. Without ever knowing that it was even possible.”

I mean, it would be interesting seeing how a K2 civilization would fare against magic.