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Transplanted Humans

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Long ago, visitors came down from the stars, and took humans (and possibly other Earth species) away to other worlds. Now that we have the ability to travel between those stars, we keep running into our long-lost cousins.
This is an increasingly common (and admittedly pretty good) way to justify Human Aliens, by making alien humans.
One variation is that that's how we got to Earth, and the origin planet of humanity is somewhere else. This has become less common, however, as evidence that we're biologically related to other Earth species has become pretty hard to talk your way around.
This trope is often combined with Ancient Astronauts and/or Advanced Ancient Humans. Compare and contrast Transhuman Aliens, where the descendants of the Transplanted Earthlings aren't human anymore, and Ultraterrestrials, where they never were, or Transplanted Aliens, where a different species has been similarly transplanted. Compare Lost Colony, where the humans moved themselves. Humanity Came from Space is another possible explanation for humans on other planets.

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The Martians in Spin are all descended from humans who were sent to the planet in hopes that the lack of Earth's time-dilation effect would cause their civilization to outpace Earth's, thus giving them some better idea about the nature of the Hypotheticals.
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Empire from the Ashes, by David Weber: Humans on Earth are transplants descended from the stranded crew of an interstellar warship which has disguised itself as the Moon. Humans were originally native to another planet, Mycos (as is all the other life on Earth — explaining why it is biologically related to humanity). Note the Humans from the ship were descended from humans on Birhat, which survived the last cycle of destruction which claimed Mycos at the end of the Third Imperium. It's not fully known if the First and Second Imperiums were human.
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Master of Orion:
In Master of Orion 3 you can discover planets already populated by splinter colonies of any species in the game, and also a few from the previous games that are not playable in this one. These are explained as the remnants of the empires established in the previous games, having been so small and technologically backwards they were missed when the Antarans conquered everyone and confined each species to a single planet.
Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars, the Terrans are humans, taken from Earth long ago by the Antarans to fight the Orions, but ended up abandoning them on a dying world in the Alpha Ceti system. Through hardship, perseverance, and draconian policies, the Terrans survived and clawed their way back to the stars, determined to dominate all other races, including their Earth cousins.
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The reason why humans, orcs, goblins, elves, dwarves etc can be found on so many worlds in the old Might and Magic verse is that the Ancients (who may or may not be humans/transhumans from Earth) put them there (you can even visit part of the ship that brought your ancestors to Enroth in Might & Magic VI).
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An interdimensional version in Destroyermen, where a Negative Sea Wedgie transports a pair of American destroyers from a World War II battlefield to a parallel world, where humans never evolved. Instead, they get stuck in the middle of an ancient war between a race of Lizard Folk called the Grik and Cat Folk called Lemurians. It isn't long before they find out that they're not the only humans to find themselves in this world (there are the Imperial Japanese, who are helping the Grik before splitting off on their own at Zanzibar, the Empire of New Britain Isles at Hawaii, the Holy Dominion in Central and South America, the League of Tripoli in the Mediterranean, the Republic of Real People in Southern Africa, the New United States near the Mexican Gulf, and a bunch of human tribes all over the place). They also learn that our world isn't the only one, from where people have ended up in the Grik/Lemurian world. Norably, the League of Tripoli comes from a world, where fascist France, Spain, Italy, and Germany are at war with the US, the UK, and the Russian Empire.
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During the Krakoan Age event X of Swords, it's revealed that Krakoa is actually half of a larger landmass Okkara, which was split in half and along with its people lost to another dimension during an incursion of demon hordes. There they spent the next thousands of years fighting a Hopeless War against armies of demons, culturally evolving to the point even their members born human don't identify as such any longer.
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In Star Trek: Enterprise:
The episode "Terra Nova" reveals that the race with whom Archer and his crew are making first contact are the descendants of an early Earth expedition that lost contact with the home planet.
"North Star" has them finding an Old West-style planet which is populated by abducted humans previously used as slave labor by the aliens who now work as their slaves.
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There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton uses this to explain why there are so many worlds in the Milky Way populated not by Human Aliens but actual humans. Specifically, in Eternity in Promise, Moonstone explains that a number of the humans kept in the Diamonds' People Zoo escaped and were rescued by the Xanderians, with whom they eventually interbreeded, leading to a population boom that ended up colonizing many planets.
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The Atlantines in Dan Dare are descendants of slaves kidnapped by the Treens and taken to Venus thousands of years ago. They've been there long enough to evolve blue skin and forehead lumps.
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And now Star Trek: Discovery joins the lineup with "New Eden", where a mysterious entity has transported a couple hundred soldiers and civilians taking cover in a church during World War III over 51,000 light years to a habitable world in the Beta Quadrant.
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Midworld is home to a race of humans that descended from a failed colony but have been living in the world-wide jungle long enough that they've evolved to be shorter than average humans, have green hair for improved camouflage, and have long prehensile toes for gripping branches. They've also evolved a psychic plant-empathy ability they call emfolling and have a symbiotic link with a six-legged bear-like species called furcots. In fact, the entire planet is sentient and chose to adopt the humans into it by giving them furcots, which are actually self-aware, mobile plants. Each human has a single furcot bonded to it, and when either one dies, the other quickly follows.
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Space Academy: One of the major advantages humans have is the fact that it turns out many colonies of these exist that include whole worlds of populations taken from Medieval and other times. This allows humanity to deal with other branches of itself even if they are rarely inclined to consider Earth to be anything special in dealings.
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Power Rangers in Space uses this to handwave how Andros, his sister Korone and Zane look human despite all being from another planet.
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The Last Adventure of Constance Verity: While humans are immortal as long as they exist within the Fae Realm, they still breed as though they were mortal, causing the Fae Realm's human population to outgrow its native fairy population.
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In the Galactic Marines novel Semper Mars, an expedition at Cydonia, Mars, discovers ruins half a million years old. An American archaeologist then discovers skeletons that appear to indicate that whoever had built the ruins also abducted Homo erectus from Earth and genetically modified them, possibly using them as labor to build the Face. An unexplained disaster then caused the deaths of both the Builders and the transplanted hominids.
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Played two ways in The Giants Series. Humans were taken to Minerva millions of years ago, and one of the two rival groups was returned to Earth when Minerva was destroyed. The other group of humans was taken many light-years away and became the Jevlenese, who retained a hatred of their rivals even as the rivals forgot about them.
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Unicorn Jelly: The main explanation for humanity's appearance in a twisted universe: 4th-dimensional holes in space and time (a natural occurrence due to the multiverse's instability) cause random pockets of reality to transport instantly from one universe to another. Chou explains that it's like rain: when rain falls, it's round because of the properties of surface tension, and makes a circular shape when it hits a flat surface; the holes in time and space are similar, teleporting orbs of people into a new reality. The odds of this happening are astronomical, but in the Unicorn Jelly universe it happens. It's unknown how many have died compared to how many survived, but there are enough to start a utopian civilization. This later happens to a different alien species, complete with one person panicking (much like the old lady from the first batch of transplantees).
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Everworld is another fantasy version. The various mythological gods all decided that they were sick of our world and created a new one, moving there along with all the other magical beings. But of course, the gods aren't going without some worshipers, which is why Vikings, ancient Greeks, pyramid-building Egyptians and Druids all live in a weird, anachronistic hodgepodge. In contrast, the beings actually native to other worlds, like the Coo-Hatch and the Hetwans, look nothing like humans.
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The Lost Regiment focuses on a group of Union soldiers being transported by a Tunnel of Light to another planet just after the Battle of Gettysburg. There, they find various cultures transplanted from Earth at different times, including Medieval Russians, Ancient Romans, Carthaginians, Ancient Chinese, etc. All of them are stuck in Medieval Stasis, enforced by this world's true masters, a race of 9-foot-tall Human Aliens, who ride around the planet as Hordes at different latitudes and collect tribute from their human subjects in the form of supplies and "cattle". It doesn't take long for the Americans to come into conflict with the Tugars, one of the alien hordes. Fortunately, the nearby human peoples are sick and tired of having to sacrifice some of their own to the Tugars every generation and would rather go down swinging. The Americans end up helping the locals industrialize and train in modern (by Civil War standards) combat.
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Last Exile: Though kind of a subversion, since humans transplanted themselves and two of the three nations became Fantasy Counterpart Culture Lost Colonies at the mercy of the more advanced, Crystal Spires and Togas Decadent Court faction.
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Stargate-verse:
Stargate SG-1 is probably the best-known modern example; the vast majority of the Adventure Planets the SG team goes to were colonized with human slaves by the Goa'uld.
Likewise, Stargate Atlantis populates its galaxy with human societies planted by the more benevolent Ancients. People in the Pegasus galaxy are typically aware of how to use the stargate, so some colonies may have settled on their own.
There's also the Novus civilization in Stargate Universe, resulting from accidental time travel of the crew of the Destiny 2000 years ago. The alternate (or original) crew encounters their descendants and gives them a ride back to their dying homeworld and then to their new world.
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Ringworld: A variant. What modern science knows as Homo habilis is the reproductive stage of an alien species that calls itself the Pak, characterized by a post-adult stage, the Protectors, who consume a special food to become hyper-intelligent, nearly ageless protectors of their fertile younger kin. The Pak attempt to seed multiple interstellar colonies to escape the constant internecine fighting of their homeworld, which failed for a number of reasons, leaving their breeder populations to go feral and evolve independently. Earth was one such colony; another was the Ringworld, whose immense size and absence of native megafauna allowed the lost Pak to radiate into a wide variety of forms, from ones largely similar to modern humans to megafaunal grazers, arboreal dwarfs, nocturnal carrion-eaters, aquatic fish-hunters and many more.
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The humans of Codex Alera are descended from a Lost Roman Legion and its train of camp followers, who were transported to Carna by a naturally-occurring wormhole well over a thousand years ago. The other sapient races of Carna are similar "refugees", along with a lot of its fauna.
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Grrl Power: Due to centuries of aliens abducting small numbers of pre-industrial humans, there are a few million humans living among the wider galactic community. Cora, a descendant of said abductees, mentions that most of the abductions were probably voluntary, though of course she can't be sure.
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Farscape: This is where Sebaceans, and probably Interions, come from. It's revealed in the "Peacekeeper Wars" miniseries that the Eidolons, seeking a species no one had a grudge against to serve as the policing arm of their peacemaking efforts, took primitive humans roughly 27,000 years ago and genetically modified them. By the time of the series, they have a considerable interstellar empire, as well as many unaffiliated colonies.
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In Dragon Ball After The End, humans have somehow ended up across the galaxy. No one seems to be quite sure how, though.
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Stargate SG-1 is probably the best-known modern example; the vast majority of the Adventure Planets the SG team goes to were colonized with human slaves by the Goa'uld.
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In The Traitor Son Cycle, the 3rd book reveals that humans and other sentient beings were transported to that world by The Powers That Be as a pawns in their "great game". An example of this are the ancestors of the Outwallers being brought to fight the Ondine race.
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Halo: The expanded universe explains that as humanity colonized the stars, they would occasionally find remnants of an ancient civilization on multiple worlds whose architecture was almost exactly like their own. It was revealed in the The Forerunner Saga that humanity once had an Ancient Interstellar Empire equally as powerful and advanced as the Forerunners. In fact, the Ancient Humans were the first to uncover the Flood by accident and the first to fight against them. Unfortunately, this caused a war with the Forerunners when the humans began cleansing worlds infected by the Flood, forcing them to fight a war on two fronts when the Forerunners declared war not knowing of the danger or even the existence of the Flood. Despite managing to drive back the Flood, the humans were eventually defeated by the Forerunners and as punishment were stripped of all their technology, devolved to a primitive state, and banished back to their homeworld, Erde-Tyrene aka Earth, where they were forced to start anew.
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Farpoint revolves around a pair of human scientists, Dr. Eva Tyson and her colleague, Dr. Grant Moon, stranded on an alien planet after accidentally getting dragged into a vortex where they found out earth is 3 million years away. Resigning to their fate, they decide to settle down in the alien planet and a decade later, have raised their daughter on said world.
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Forgotten Realms: Done in a more restricted fashion. Humans are native to Abeir-Toril (that is why they count as a Creator Race, and elves don't)... but they are also native to other worlds, and certain cultures are descended from such non-Toril humans (the Mulan, for example, are the descendants of slaves taken from another world that by Word of God was Earth).
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In the Traveller RPG and its offshoots the Ancients brought humans and other species to thousands of planets and also created the Vargr by uplifting wolves. The end result being that Terrans went out to the final frontier and discovered they were already there. In fact, one of those transplanted races, the Vilani, had established an interstellar empire thousands of years earlier.
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Star Trek:
Star Trek: The Original Series:
In "Assignment: Earth", it's said that Gary Seven's ancestors were taken from Earth to live on another planet, raising the perfect infiltration agents.
The Forgot the Call episode "The Paradise Syndrome" features a group of Native Americans transplanted to another star system by Precursors as a sort of cultural preserve.
In Star Trek: Enterprise:
The episode "Terra Nova" reveals that the race with whom Archer and his crew are making first contact are the descendants of an early Earth expedition that lost contact with the home planet.
"North Star" has them finding an Old West-style planet which is populated by abducted humans previously used as slave labor by the aliens who now work as their slaves.
The Star Trek: Voyager episode "The 37's" has the crew find a planet populated by descendants of humans abducted by aliens in the 1930s as slaves but rebelled against the abductors. Some of the abductees (known to the locals as the 37's) are still in stasis (including Amelia Earhart). Why someone would go to another quadrant to get slaves, given that the galaxy is teeming with intelligent (and humanoid) life, is another question.
And now Star Trek: Discovery joins the lineup with "New Eden", where a mysterious entity has transported a couple hundred soldiers and civilians taking cover in a church during World War III over 51,000 light years to a habitable world in the Beta Quadrant.
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In Among the Chosen, a race of aliens called "the Overseers" abducted a bunch of humans some time in the stone age as cheap labor. Thousands of years later, some of those humans developed resistance to their mind control and built a device to destroy all the Overseers. It worked — the universe is now filled with metahumans — but Earth is in a No Warping Zone, so most of them don't even know where it is.
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The V'Dan Empire from Theirs Not to Reason Why is descended from these. They have been alternate enemies and allies of the Terran United Planets.
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Known Space:
Man-Kzin Wars: In "Cathouse", the main character finds himself stranded in an unfinished alien "wildlife preserve", consisting of sealed craters containing ecosystems that were populated by plants but whose animal stock was never taken out of temporal stasis. He sets about freeing the stasis-held creatures, which in the Earth ecosystem include a tribe of Neanderthals and a single Cro-magnon girl.
Ringworld: A variant. What modern science knows as Homo habilis is the reproductive stage of an alien species that calls itself the Pak, characterized by a post-adult stage, the Protectors, who consume a special food to become hyper-intelligent, nearly ageless protectors of their fertile younger kin. The Pak attempt to seed multiple interstellar colonies to escape the constant internecine fighting of their homeworld, which failed for a number of reasons, leaving their breeder populations to go feral and evolve independently. Earth was one such colony; another was the Ringworld, whose immense size and absence of native megafauna allowed the lost Pak to radiate into a wide variety of forms, from ones largely similar to modern humans to megafaunal grazers, arboreal dwarfs, nocturnal carrion-eaters, aquatic fish-hunters and many more.
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The Post-Crisis DC Universe used this trope to justify the Human Alien Planets of Hats most of the Legion of Super-Heroes came from: after the Invasion! Crisis Crossover event, Mon-El Valor seeded several worlds with humans who had gained powers from alien experimentation.
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Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne's aliens are all humans who left Earth after a great disaster 20,000 years ago. Madoka expresses a bit of disappointment at finding that out, noting it's like they are just coming home.
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Star Trek: The Original Series:
In "Assignment: Earth", it's said that Gary Seven's ancestors were taken from Earth to live on another planet, raising the perfect infiltration agents.
The Forgot the Call episode "The Paradise Syndrome" features a group of Native Americans transplanted to another star system by Precursors as a sort of cultural preserve.
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In an episode of Sliders, an alternate Quinn's first test of the sliding machine (on a much larger scale) resulted in that Earth's entire population being transported to another world. As such, that other world now has double the population, although many duplicates try to stick together. Luckily, Prime!Quinn helps send them all back.
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Stargate made it quite clear that the people of Abydos were transplanted ancient Egyptians. See the entry for the Stargate-verse under Television for more detail.
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S.M. Stirling's novels The Sky People and In The Courts of the Crimson Kings update the Burroughs depiction of Mars and Venus by being set in an alternate timeline in which aliens terraformed Mars and Venus millions of years ago and have since periodically transplanted species from Earth to the other planets.
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Novels of the Jaran by Kate Elliot had a planet full of humans that, millennia ago, an alien removed from Earth and genetically modified before placing them on the planet. His reasons for doing so were never explored, but that may be because the series is currently unfinished.
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Future War featured a race of alien cyborgs who had visited Earth at some point in the past and kidnapped both humans and dinosaurs — the humans they used as slave labor and the dinosaurs they used as "trackers".
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The Cyantian Chronicles takes place around the time period when Cyantia culture re-integrates with Earth. Most of the humans from Cyantia are descendants of alien abductees who were enlisted to help a precursor race with a biological problem, and chose to stay away from roman-age human civilization.
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In Warhammer 40,000 they're left over from humanity's efforts at colonizing the galaxy in the distant past. It doesn't hurt that the Imperial bureaucracy is vast and bloated enough to misplace entire sectors for centuries at a stretch...
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The Lor Republic, a star-spanning civilisation in Freedom City, are descended from humans taken from Earth by the Preservers tens of thousands of years ago. They utterly refuse to believe this, suspecting Earth might be a Lost Colony of Lor.
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Banestorm: The premise of the game is that the main setting, Yrth, was originally home only to elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, and ogres. A faction of elves attempted to rid themselves of the orcs by means of a grand spell, which backfired spectacularly and caused a magical catastrophe — the titular Banestorm — that transported enormous numbers of humans to Yrth from medieval Earth, establishing humanity as a significant presence in the world. This also applies to several other species that the Banestorm brought to Yrth besides the humans, including goblins, hobgoblins, kobolds and reptile men from a desert world called Gabrook, merfolk and shark men from the ocean planet Olokun, and centaurs, giants, halflings and minotaurs from the verdant world of Loren'dil.
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There's also the Novus civilization in Stargate Universe, resulting from accidental time travel of the crew of the Destiny 2000 years ago. The alternate (or original) crew encounters their descendants and gives them a ride back to their dying homeworld and then to their new world.
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Morgaine Cycle, by C. J. Cherryh: The precursors put humans on different planets with various different starting conditions as experiments in the development of human society/culture, and then used their Cool Gates to travel into the future to see the results. However, one of the precursors used the gates to travel back in time and caused a Temporal Paradox, with the resulting Time Crash wiping out the precursors' galaxy-spanning civilization. The main characters use the precursors' Portal Network to travel from planet to planet, encountering feudal and tribal Transplanted Humans along the way.
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Narnia has a magical version of this to explain why there are humans in Narnia. They're all descended from a London cab driver and his wife, and/or Mediterranean brigands and their islander "wives", who came later, and/or from various similar transplants that aren't explicitly mentioned in the books but may have happened.
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Planet of Adventure, by Jack Vance: The earthman protagonist encounters transplanted humans living side-by-side with (and frequently dominated by) several species of sapient bona fide aliens on the titular planet.
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The Skolian Saga, by Catherine Asaro, posits a small group of Mayans who were kidnapped by an unknown species and transplanted to the planet Raylicon. The kidnappers left their starships behind. The Raylicans experiemented with the discarded technology, created an interstellar empire, fell, reachieved starflight, and then encountered humans from earth just as they invented stardrive theory from scratch.
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Wild Cards: It is a matter of debate as to whether the Takisians were taken from Earth by the Network, or if Earth is a lost Takisian colony. Either way, they are biologically identical to humans, or were prior to the Super Breeding Program which developed the psychic powers and longevity of the Mind Lords.
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Battlestar Galactica (2003) both have this: "There are those who believe that life here began out there." Kind of. In both versions, it was humans leaving Kobol of their own accord to settle the Thirteen Colonies of Kobol. This has been offered by fans as an alternative explanation to identical evolution of humans on Kobol and Earth 2 in the re-imagined continuity, however.
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While there aren't any actual humans in Spore (except maybe Steve) you can find planets inhabited by tribes or civilizations of your own species and abduct specimens of other species and drop them off on planets.
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Tales of Kaimere: The multiple Human Subspecies on Kaimere are the descendants of two different harvests of Homonoids. First were Homo erectus harvested from Southeast Asia 1.5 million years ago, who would diversify into the seven-feet tall Hinterland Giants, the non-speaking Tlaton of the Polar Continent, and the diminutive but "creative" First Children. Another harvest around 255 thousand years ago would bring in Homo sapiens from Africa, who would evolve into the common Kaimeran people. Modern humans also were brought to Kaimere, first as Clovis Americans from the final natural harvest 11,000 years ago or as slaves from America and the Mediterranian during the Mercantile Age.
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The Something Wicked Saga by Iced Earth is told from the point of view of the Setians, a race of Reptilian Humanoids who were indigenous to Earth and nearly got wiped out by invading humans.
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Likewise, Stargate Atlantis populates its galaxy with human societies planted by the more benevolent Ancients. People in the Pegasus galaxy are typically aware of how to use the stargate, so some colonies may have settled on their own.
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "The 37's" has the crew find a planet populated by descendants of humans abducted by aliens in the 1930s as slaves but rebelled against the abductors. Some of the abductees (known to the locals as the 37's) are still in stasis (including Amelia Earhart). Why someone would go to another quadrant to get slaves, given that the galaxy is teeming with intelligent (and humanoid) life, is another question.
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The Anuban race in Unreal Tournament 2004 is a result of this, being humans taken from the ancient Egyptian empire and transplanted to other worlds as part of an experiment. They end up not only surviving but thriving well into the 23rd century.
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In The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy 1978, the humans currently on earth were descended from telephone sanitary workers and hairdressers, set to crash into the Earth by the other people on their planet, who were later wiped out by a disease that occured due to contaminated telephones.
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In Babylon 5, First Contact with the Centauri led to the Centauri claiming that Earth was a long-forgotten colony world of theirs (hence explaining why humans and centauri look so similar). This claim lasted for as long as it took for the humans to get a Centauri DNA sample, which proved the claim was utter hogwash. The Centauri blamed a 'clerical error'.
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