What do the Ceph care about the Earth/earthlings anyway?
It’s their job. Their alien race is interested in all forms of life and consider living planets “wildlife preserves.” The Ceph were specifically designed to study humans, (though they have also taken the forms of other earth creatures). They don’t have any strict non-interference rule because they understand that their very presence makes that impossible. Instead, the Ceph follow a simple rule: if you’re going to interfere with humans, do it as a human (you can just imagine the way male Ceph interprets this rule). The ship, before it took the form of a ship, hid deep underground and relayed the information the Ceph gathered to the collective.
