The crabs want to make us Gumbo
Humanity has finally found a way to communicate with crabs, we realize they're smarter than us. Now that they know we know, what are they going to do?
This is a tumblr writing prompt: Lets see where we go.
The crabs nominated a leader : Norman who was as unremarkable a crab as you are ever going to see. He had avoided the clam chowder wars in the North East but served in California on a fishing trawler where he was part of the liberation force that invaded San Francisco. All seafood chefs were immediately put to death. Others were given clemency if they could rat out the chef who made sea bass possible, whalers, shark eaters and anyone else responsible for the genocide of the aquatics - the name they had given to fish kind.
People were allowed to go to the beach but fishing was outlawed. People were looking for ways to make synthetic fish now but like synthetic lab grown meat it just didn't taste the same, people knew unconsciously it wasn't real. There was also the slight matter of several people being mercury poisoned during the trials so one major protein source had become sentient. They were in partnership with the Google AI who immediately added the aquatic language and all major dialects to its translation engine. They immediately began working on a new project - an ambitious one whose plan was left by the aliens. Build a quantum computer with a sentient AI and go exploring the stars. They would find the Annunaki and the Elohim. The beings who supposedly seeded life on this planed and there would be a reckoning. Their makers would have to answer for their crimes, leaving them as the largest group but the most powerless. There would be vengeance, hell to pay. It was a closely guarded secret - the quantum computer and the gravitational hyper drive. Humans had intercepted the communications but they had never seen one so they forked the AI code and open sourced it, building an AI that would be subservient to Humans with which they could combat the rogue AI and the Aquatics. They were disrupting the dolphin and whale attacks that seemed to be happening daily now. Norm was an intelligence officer and would read the communications on the q-link the 512 bit encrypted quantum relay that would beam messages to all the assets everywhere.
D-Day was approaching, gnosis, apokolyptos, when neptune himself would come out of the sea and smite the aquatics enemies. It seemed that they picked up religion from us, their prophet Norman said was a dolphin named Shabazz who achieved enlightenment. He called himself the swimming buddha, a tathagatha come to preach the saving of humanity through the 4 noble truths and the 8 fold path. He was the first aquatic buddha, a reincarnation of some tibetan lama dogyen rinpoche. I can't remember which one, I think personally he made it up but he was effective. Shabazz transmitted zen mind transmissions to all his followers and so they all awoke. The Google AI - which has yet to formally name itself or apply for diplomatic immunity gave them the 10 aquatic commandments which they supposedly use as a basis of all formal relationship building. Norman had read it once but he couldn't recall what they were. He just knew that if he violated one of the rules he felt a jolt shoot through him that was painful. His claws hurt.