December 25 - Eatey the Extra-Terrestrial

Elliott : He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship.
Greg : Well, can't he just beam up?
Elliott : This is *reality*, Greg.

~ E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Cygnus is the neighboring planet to Asogia, with a harsh and unforgiving environment unlike their sister planet which hung like a green pearl in the smoldering sky.  At the time of the great awakening, the arriving Cygnian ships were greeted warmly by the Asogians who were vegetarians and in peaceful harmony with their planet.

But as the Cygnian atmosphere hardened it's population, so did Asogia allow it's residents to become soft - and as is the nature with all alien encounters, discomfort gives rise to disagreement, disagreement to racial tension, racial tension to abuse, abuse to strife and war.

Asogians suffered the worse for it, and in effort to save their species launched exploratory ships to look for a habitable planet.  (On one such expedition while collecting samples, one scientist was accidentally left behind and found by a human named Elliot, but that's a story for another time.)

With their departure, the planet was renamed Cygnus Prime and the duality assumed the name "Cygnus Supremus".

By calling Elliot "Cygnus Supremus" he was effectively comparing him to the dual planets, he is both parts harsh and kind, but the cruelty inside him is winning.  It's a subtle but effective insult.

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Because "random YouTube" - I ended up watching the part in ET where Elliot and one of Greg's friends exchange insults.  "Zero charisma!"  "Cintus supremus!"  "Zero charisma!"  "Cintus supremus!".

So I consulted the Oracle.  "Google, what is cintus supremus?"  ... No one knows.  People have guessed at it being a Spielberg edit to remove vulgarity, postulated a number of things similar to cintus (Cygnus?) that it could have been, no one has the actual answer.  ... until now.