Futurewinians!

[gerph]

Gerph: What happened ?

Officer: They wiped us out. Hundreds dead-maybe thousands.

Gerph: The virus ?

Officer: The Futurewinians! They were inside the floating body of a
machine they'd made - a massive metal saucer with beams.

Gerph: Beams ?

Officer: Sucking beams. Picking up men and sucking them into their
machine - then replacing them with their own men. They wiped us
out.

Gerph: Mmm. I saw some land earlier.

Officer: Yes, they looked bound for our eastern base.

Gerph: The eastern base! I never dreamed there could be danger to it, so
far inside my ground.

(with apologies to Jeff Wayne and HG Wells, based on a thought that popped in to my head whilst playing earlier)

[Artemis]

What? Didn't you offer him a drink first?

Good comparison though. Now all we need are bacteria...