But in Table Top what they Did its Pretty Normal..
Mindflayers Kinda do this indeed..
they went and Steall People from Citys..
and sometimes hide Colonys inside this cities to Turn evrybody into Squid...
In the Underdark playing Table Top..
yu can Find Many colonies and the Drow and Duergar actually went against then all the Time..
(just give a Try on Mezonberanzza Stuff.. trust me the Underdark its Pretty amazing.)
and they Just Deep Down on doing this Kind stuff even Harder..
Becouse of the Failure that was the Grand Designe..
(the only Thing out of sense here in my opinion is the Ship. becouse since the Grand Designe like Olmellun tells yu.. He never saw one.. and indeed they are Pretty Rare to Find..)
Maybe its for increase the Stake in the Game but i never Understood How they Find that Ship even so that they are Mindflayers.. so they were some Colony From outside Earth ??
Becouse in Table Top the Gith and Squid People are all around the Planes and Other Planets..
(Like they are the Space Dudes from Dungeons and Dragons..)
Hence why the Ships and Flying Dragons.
Yeah, but in this game, grabbing people to tadpole them was what the Absolute was doing, had been for a while, we're told are responsible, had the prism the Absolutionist were explicitly looking for aboard and in the other thread, I pointed out the coincidences bringing Baldur's Gate into all the people that survive the crash, etc. It could be a random nautiloid ship, but that just makes the plot holes WORSE, lol.