> Not alien to planet Earth!

"Speaker to Animals" was a Kzinti name, popular enough among fen of the era that I've even seen it on a business card as a job title. (IIRC, for a sales engineer?)

There ain’t no justice.

I'm in favour of an apocalypse caused by a swarm of giant alien murder cats rather than the cliche skynet outcome.

I can imagine them climbing on top of cathedrals or tower apartment blocks and curling up on the roofs to soak in the sunlight while the buildings precariously creak under the cats' weight and eventually collapse. The giant cats unfazed move to the next cathedral ... that would be a very British giant cat apocalypse.

Why not both? I mean, the standard Skynet murder robots/nuclear apocalypse scenario is indeed boring. Skynet x AlphaFold solving protein folding and hitting us with molecular nanotech? Swarms of giant murder cats would be on the table.

Humanity survived the attack in 1971. We can do it again.

If you're reading this, you are the resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr6CyU-Ev_M

Easily distracted by giant balls of knitting wool ;)

Their one Achilles Heel.

Or a laser pointer.

See also: one of the books in The Laundry Files series by 'cstross.

Planet of the Apes but swap out apes with murder kittens.