The Grey

"'The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.' --Joan Didion"

The Grey
The Grey are an enigmatic extraterrestrial species native to many alternate realities, notably co-existing with the modern human race on many instances of Earth. They are a super technologically advanced spacefaring civilization with superscientific technology, which they zealously guard.

The Grey are short, frail, hairless humanoids with gray-green skin, large heads, and protruding eyes and small mouths. Their likeness is common fodder for extraterrestrial enthusiasts on Earth shadows, even within man worlds which remain oblivious to the existence of the Drift. This is likely due to periodic visitation by Greys to Earth.

Greys are extremely secretive and antisocial by the standards of most races in the Drift. In general, they only interact with Drifters at all as part of a transaction, either to buy artifacts or other, more mundane elements of Drifter magic and technology. To buy these, The Grey operate a wide-range or proxy companies providing goods and services within Drifter Hubs. For adventurous Drifter's and private militarizes, the most well-known Grey operation is the Super-Happy Joyous Death Corporation, an arms retailer who specializes in selling sophisticated alien weapons with built-in DRM-style self destruct mechanisms, rendering them useless after a certain amount of time or uses.