how much
             cooler        would
it have been
             if human
  beings          had instead
evolved          to become;
      Arachno sapiens
?
smarter future       humans  will
imagine         interstellar
species &    go in search
of them; if unable to find them,
then to create them - using
any technological   means  
       possible: fembots
mingling w/ clones; multilimbed
amphibian mating     w/ a flying
Cephalopod
                   +d =n-:
      I can see this easily working out;
seeking  - blue or green snooch -
pref.   Alpha quandrant -
willing to travel light yrs.
                  | any temporal
                           locus / no vectors |
no shape-shifters