From: [email protected]
Subject: System 887, Sector 442617
The Agrestis is approaching System 887 in Sector 442617. Long-range scans show 8 planets in the system and the 4th planet to be inhabited. The other 7 planets are incapable of supporting human life.
Proceeding to take a closer look, will report soon.
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: System 887, Sector 442617
Very well.
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: System 887, Sector 442617
Numerous artificial satellites in orbit around the 4th planet. Technology is unfamiliar although all seem to be capable of communication. Will try to establish contact.
From: [email protected]
To: ALL FREQ
Subject: First Contact
This is Captain Hacker of the vessel Agrestis.
Our species is known as Human, from planet Earth.
We come in peace.
Please find attached the language database and navigational charts showing the location of planet Earth and our journey thus far.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
This is Percy, Orbital Station 77 of the planet Paradiso.
Please maintain position and state your intentions.
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
We come in peace.
We require a new home.
Request permission to land.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Permission denied.
We need to establish a basic understanding of your species.
What is the complement of Agrestis?
Are there any other Earth vessels?
Reason(s) for evacuating planet Earth?
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Complement: 60
There are 5 other ships, comparable in size and complement.
Planet Earth was becoming potentially uninhabitable.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Please forward your historical database for study.
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Our historical database is attached.
We are low on resources.
Request permission to land.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Permission denied.
Please wait for further communication.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
To: Walker-Paradiso.DefSci
Subject: FWD: RE: First Contact
Professor Walker,
Please find attached the historical database and other relevant information from the alien vessel.
Protocol Alpha assumed unless advised otherwise.
Messages up to this point are available on OS0077.C.72330321.1972 as will all further correspondence.
Analysis of databases and advice at your discretion.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
It seems Earth was at war on a global scale at the time of your departure. This might contradict your stated intentions.
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
No one on any of the ships are responsible for the conflicts on Earth, past or present. We have no quarrel with your species.
We are seeking a new home.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Are you seeking refuge for the other five vessels also?
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Yes.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
How many factions or ‘major powers’ are on Earth?
What is the reason for any conflict at any level between these factions?
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
That’s a complex question… usually, it’s over material resources and land.
To my knowledge, there are 10 factions to varying degrees of power.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Your database shows your planet to be of considerable size with significant natural resources, capable of sustaining a population four times the current number.
Why so many conflicts? – not to mention three major ones, excluding this latest one, in less than 150 Earth years?
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Because it’s cheaper to take over existing infrastructure than start from scratch. It’s just economics.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Yes, according to your database: the artificially flawed debt-based system on one side and the communist system on the other. It would seem economics is merely a symptom of a more profound problem.
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Well, to each his own… People have a right to choose, don’t they?
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
The concept of ‘human rights’ is also found in your database.
Is this something your species generally believe in and adhere to?
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Yes, it’s one of the foundations of modern society.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
It seems you accept ‘free will’ but you use ‘human rights’ as license to do whatever you wish, thereby actually divorcing yourself from the responsibility of the use of free will.
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
We believe in liberty.
We hope that is something you value too.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
We do, but not divorced from justice. From your database, your species preaches liberty, tolerance and respect. From painful experience, we have learnt from other species which practice this philosophy that they use it hypocritically to unjustly persecute others. Your history seems no different to our past observations: liberty for and tolerance toward all but bloody revolutions and wars follow. This is illogical, self-contradictory and unjust.
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
I can’t argue with our history but those of us on this fleet aren’t like that. We believe in ourselves.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
So does the restrained psychiatric patient.
Which factions are represented by those on board the fleet?
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: System 887, Sector 442617
The inhabitants of the planet do not seem welcoming.
We do not have resources to reach another system.
Please advise.
From: Walker-Paradiso.DefSci
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: FWD: RE: First Contact
T#e te#m has analy#ed all the sal#ent p#ints of
ERROR: Transmission integrity compromised.
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: System 887, Sector 442617
Resource status is critical across the fleet.
This planet is our best hope.
Initiate Plan Beta upon the arrival of the remainder of the fleet.
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Just one faction.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
And the other factions?
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Only one other faction had a fleet.
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
And their status?
From: Walker-Paradiso.DefSci
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: FWD: RE: First Contact
Previous transmission compromised due to virus uploaded from the human database. It does not appear to be intentional but a side-effect of the data. Threat has been removed.
Preliminary analysis of human database complete. This species is over-sentimental, prone to unjust belligerence, accepts everything and yet believes in nothing except themselves.
Initiate Protocol Omega-2.
Earth vessel uses primitive fusion reactor for propulsion and weapons.
In addition to the standard requirements of Protocol Omega-2, send the following on a separate channel, disguised as background radiation:
while(reactr_status==TRUE && weaps_pwr>0)
{
ovrrde_safeties(magncontain_reg, temp_reg, pwrflw_reg);
reactr_pwr = reactr_pwr*1.88;
}
From: [email protected]
To: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
Subject: RE: First Contact
Last report state that they suffered catastrophic malfunction while still in Earth’s atmosphere.
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Theta System, Sector 442617
We have just arrived. Good to see you just initiated Pla#
From: Percy-Paradiso.OS0077
To: Walker-Paradiso.DefSci
Subject: RE: FWD: RE: First Contact
All six Earth vessels suffered reactor overload.
Protocol Omega-2 concluded.
Interesting twist, making us the aliens. You did a good job of trying to view humanity objectively. First impressions are pretty important