[ WP ] A super-advanced alien race has been genetically engineering viruses to shape Human evolution

It had first been detected in the clouds high above Venus. A region of high pressure that expanded to cover the atmosphere, twisting its familiar orange and burnt yellows to a blackness that shined in the radiation from the sun. And it continued to grow, creating a shimmering black sphere. 
 
 It reached out. It did n't know what for. It just reached out. 
 
 Hairs several miles wide extended from the surface. 
 
 It reached out until it grasped the next rock. It wrapped itself around. 
 
 Still it reached out. Unaware of its purpose, but at the same time aware. 
 
 Always reaching, spreading. 
 
 It found the blue marble. 
 
 It stopped reaching out. 
 
 The first ship to enter it had passed through the fibres. 
 
 It did not come back through the other side. 
 
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 As the ship crashed into the barrier, it stopped instaneously. Twelve thousand kilometres an hour to zero in less than a second. The inhabitants rendered to a red mist and dark smears on the metal walls that sheared with the collision. 
 
 The Barrier remained for quite some time. The world watched silently, waiting for something to happen. 
 
 And then it did. The fibres tore themselves apart and a dark space opened up behind it. 
 
 After a few years, the humans sent their first ship through the barrier, and they finally found us.
