polydad

I'm facing some similar challenges in an RPG that I'm running. The party has stumbled upon a crashed alien spacecraft. The party consists of humans at about a medieval tech level, but who are aware that space and aliens exist. Describing modern technology in the abstract to humans at that tech level, especially in text-only, renders most things unrecognizable to begin with. How "alien" do I make it from there? If it's too alien, they'll never be able to form any comprehension of what it might be and how to interact with it. If it's too recognizable then it doesn't feel interestingly alien.