A short Sci-Fi story....
Imagine, if you will, a time in the future when humanity, if we survive, has the power of real space travel - like Star Trek. We find a beautiful planet inhabited by primitive humanoids. We descend on the planet in a small group and freely interact with the humanoids teaching them some basic things - building, farming and so on. Our aim was to find a planet to adopt but we are happy to share it because, to these beings, we are gods.
For a while, things go well. We rule over the planet and its hominids who we help to move forward with a bit of DNA rejigging. Now, they carry a bit of us inside them too. We build our cities under the oceans and under the crust of the planet so as not to damage the world of our hosts….
A new group of humans arrive as we were the advance party. Some of them see the female hominids with a little of our DNA as rather attractive - but their life span is far less than ours. Some of them break our own rules and engage in sexual activity with the hominids….not thinking there would be offspring - but there is and that offspring is not nice! A giant and a mixture of us and this indigenous race. These giants cause mayhem and havoc. They and this interaction with the rest of us that was sexual in nature, seems to have damaged the psyche of our part creation - part discovery.
Reluctantly, we decide to retreat to our secret places of inhabitation and leave our hosts on the surface to evolve as they will. After a few decades, we observe that a huge comet will hit the planet causing mass extinctions and so we interact with them again - informing a few of their coming demise and providing instructions on how they might survive the coming maelstorm. We then retreat to our places hidden and protected from the coming destruction.
From time-to-time we check in to see what is occurring on the surface. The hominid has grown very warlike and is constantly engaging in war and destruction. They have memories of gods that walked among them, so occasionally and very cautiously, we engage with them remotely from our flying machines…. and try to nudge them away from the violence.
As they continue to evolve, we begin to understand that their behavior is also a threat to us. They develop powerful bombs not knowing what these actually do to creation. We occasionally offer guidance as in the past but remotely. Now we have another strategy as well to reduce the risk to us and that is to monitor them closely and secretly. We can control their mass destruction weapons with ease and demonstrate this from time-to-time. As things become increasingly violent on the surface, we observe closer and closer - sometimes intervening in ways that we hope they do not see nor understand.
We also use our plasma ships over their cities hoping to influence them through fear but they instead want out technologies so than can destroy each other even better…… but we still have control and will do for many hundreds of years to come. We still hope that like us, they will learn the ways of peace… but these people - they have an inner tinge of evil - they desire power over each other so much….
Could that be a remnant of their interaction with us?