The tables are turned on hunters

Zor

More of a Zor than You
In this scenario a few strange things happen. First there are some meteor showers which land in mostly in rural areas. Then come a spike of missing persons cases around the world in rural areas, but most pronouncedly in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Middle East, Siberia and Africa. All of which have the same features in common...
  • All the missing individuals were at least 18 years old
  • All the missing individuals were carrying firearms
  • None of the individuals were active military personnel or police (outside of the middle east where those distinctions are hazy).
  • All the missing individuals were away from population centers
  • All the missing individuals experienced a loss of communications shortly before they vanished
  • All the missing individuals had firearms on them and most of them were out hunting
A few children and teenagers that were with their parents or relatives during these expeditions report the saw strange things before the adults in their group disappeared and there are a handful of videos. A while afterwards people find some trace of what happened to these individuals in the form of blood and human bones stripped bare of tissue, some of which have carbon scoring but all of them lack head and neckbones. Their are also a few strange artifacts found nearby as well as RADAR ghosts and subsequent meteor strikes. After about six months thanks to some clever planning by the Australian Military manages to catch a party of these guys in the act and though they suffer some casualties in doing so eventually they manage to bring down one individual while the others managed to escape in a 20 meter long triangular spacecraft. And it turns out a few of the wilder speculations were true, these beings are aliens.

The aliens in question are radially symmetrical with six limbs (three arms, three legs) and stand about 1.5 meters tall on average. They have a 'head' on top of a barrel shaped torso and a mouth on the underside. They can run at speeds of up to 40km/h. They usually wear are clad in suits capable of a full environmental seal that also have a powered exoskeleton, armored plating that can offer some protection against an M2 browning which has a thermoptic camouflage capacity. Their main armament is a laser rifle able to fire a 30kj pulse at maximum power with lower settings. Other artifacts they posses are a set of vibro knives, jamming drones to stop cell phones, scout drones to pick up prey, mechanisms for setting up traps, bottles of foul smelling liquid which turns out to contain about 10% alcohol as well as some other chemicals which are probably some form of mild intoxicants, a few 20cm long cylindrical containers and a small personal computer which contains (among other things) some strange music, a few unusual games, what looks like a few stories in print and some images, most notably these being this creature and a few others brandishing weapons and posing with the corpse of a missing hunter. The cylinders it turns out contained a stew of vegetables (some alien, some terrestrial) and human flesh. They were forced to abandon their campsite in a hurry and among some gear found in it was a thing box containing a human head, it's features distorted into a garish grimace and in some way preserved against rot and another containing the skins of hunters undergoing similar processing.

What can be ascertained is this, there is a culture of aliens which have decided that human hunters are worthy sport prey. The hunts continue after the Australian Army takes down the hunter. There will be about 10,000 of these hunters coming to earth every ten months and they'll usually take six hunters a piece.

What do you do and what is your response?

Zor
 
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