Scientists at JPL claim to be testing a new laser-based interplanetary communications system using near-infrared lasers. They say it offers bandwidth ten to a hundred times existing radio-based communications. The ultra-high-definition test video beamed from 80 million miles away purports to be of an earth-bound cat named Taters. You can read about it and watch a short clip of the video here.
All this is a lie, of course, to prevent panic in the streets. The truth is that Taters is not on Earth. He is not even from Earth. He is an evil overlord alien from the planet Felidae, in the guise of an ordinary harmless house cat. The only true part of the story is that he is now only 80 million miles away. When he finally catches that laser dot, he will thereby regain control of his vast armada of space destroyers. Then there is no hope for terrestrial life forms. Fear and tremble, puny Earthlings, fear and tremble at the coming of your new master.
I would be more welcoming, but my current feline overlords are prone to jealousy.
If they make common cause, or (gasp) it turns out that my current feline rulers are part of the early wave of the invasion, then I will simply welcome the formalization of the status of my feline overlords.
They’d be unlikely to do any worse than some of the ones humans have come up with; and might well do better.
However, what seems to be posited in the OP is that said overlord isn’t actually a cat; but a creature of some other sort entirely who is just pretending to be a cat. I’d expect that the actual cats can tell, though; and so would wait to see what my clowder thinks of the creature.
Well, we’ve certainly had plenty of practice for that with our current feline overlords. Perhaps they’re an advance scouting force? Or perhaps a rebel population that had fled from the advancing horde and found what they thought would be a safe haven on this planet?