Aliens. Those ideas from those muggle films. Cedric had supposed it might be possible for life to develop on one of the other planets they studied, if unlikely. But he'd never had the honour of making contact, and it probably wouldn't have been a wizard to do it anyway. Muggles were so much more fixated on that kind of thing, and he wondered why.

"Was there a war there too?" Aliens could always be friendly, he supposed, but the ship seemed to select people who were prepared for this sort of thing. More prepared than he was, at any rate.