THE KRYNOIDS HAVE NO EXPLICIT PLANS FOR THE invasion of Earth nor, indeed, the destruction of all faunal life on the planet. As parasitic vegetal creatures, they are simply fulfilling their natural lifecycle of germination, consumption and growth.
Having hurtled through the depths of space to embed themselves in the permafrost of ancient Antarctica, somewhere between 28,000 and 18,000 BC, two Krynoid seed pods remain in a dormant state until their unexpected discovery by a team of scientists from the World Ecology Bureau in the late twentieth century.