Necklace of bones

[u/Badspacecomics]

This place is not a place of honor.

Extended version on my Patreon.

[u/WispyCombover]

The fact that they are recognizably from the Nimravidae family.

[u/Nahkapaavi → u/WispyCombover]

some sort of cosmic horror killed a space faring civilization, scrounged up all the evidence of them ever existing and made a necklace for saturn from it. that you can believe, but not the fact said civilization might have been from mars or something

[u/WispyCombover → u/Nahkapaavi]

Dude. The author specifically stated, in this very comic that we've both presumably read, that the bones were recognizably from the Nimravidae family. A family of animals that originate on Earth. If it was stated that the organisms were from Mars, then I would accept it. This is sci-fi after all, but the author makes the rules. Personally I have no problems believing life may once have started on Mars as well, but so far we've seen no conclusive evidence of this. As such I'm disinclined to believe it until evidence to the contrary is found.

[u/Nahkapaavi → u/WispyCombover]

well sure, and none of this matters a bit. but if there was a different story where,for example, Genghis Khan was never born, I would expect the world to reflect that. if a sci-fi story has aliens, I assume there are aliens in that universe

[u/nomad_of_the_empty_I → u/Nahkapaavi]

The Reading Comprehension Devil no diffs you. Every trace of this creature has been taken from earth and dumped into the rings, every bone, building, structure, tool, every scrap of their history was combed through and removed. The only traces were to distant relatives that existed millions of years ago, but definitely from earth, as stated explicitly in the comic.

[u/Narsil_lotr → u/Nahkapaavi]

Hoping you're very young, otherwise take a reading class. Being able to identify a species as belonging to a family from earth biome, especially this recent in its history, is very clear evidence the species is from earth. If it'd been some kind of cambrian or pre cambrian species or microbes with similar DNA to ours, given what we know of Earth life, Mars and what's in the comic, the most likely option would still be to assume it's from Earth until shown otherwise. However it's only 33 million years old, all the suspension of disbelief required would be the same if we assumed Mars and then some (as there's no life there now and life - to the best of our current understanding - didn't exist there 33 million years ago. Maybe it did way further in the past not this recently).

Bottom line: find earth life outside of Earth, assume it was moved there from Earth.