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Author: Arivne

Apr 27th 2013 at 12:02:54 AM

HomeworldEvacuation, so people won't assume it's limited to Earth?

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* The Insects From Shaggai (AKA Shan) in Ramsey Campbell's CthulhuMythos stories. When their home planet was destroyed by a Mythos abomination, some of them fled to a succession of other planets, finally ending up on Earth.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Empath". The star of the Minarva system is about to go nova. A group of highly advanced aliens known as the Vians can save the population of only one of the planets in the system. They decide to determine which planet's population will be saved by putting a member of each population through a SecretTest.

[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', Double Adventure "The Chamax Plague/Horde". In the BackStory, the alien population of a planet was close to being wiped out by a SuperPersistentPredator species called the Chamax. They decided their only chance was to build a fleet of {{Sleeper Starship}}s to carry all of the remaining aliens to other star systems.