Come to think of it, I wonder what Bob would have to think about the C'tan back in their day; those things got basically powered up by by the scarifice value of the the destructive uploading of a multi-billion strong polity at minimum.
]]>11: Not to mention, there's other players that could handle him - I can't see the Eldar or Necrons being very happy about it.
]]>I'd not shoot the ambassador; I'd introduce it to a certain german friend of mine - let's see what we can learn from some invasive neural probing.
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As I said, it's a ratfuck.
My money on their motivation is on a plausibly deniable sabotage that leaves them with an excuse to occupy us so that other alien civilizations don't climb up their ass for breaking the laws of their milieu.
]]>Considering that, as you mentioned, the GIFT has been conclusively disproven, yeah I ain't got no reason to believe that total transparency wouldn't stop the shitbeards - fuck, it would probably let them congregate even faster than the internet. Fuck, given how often my kind gets bashed, you might as well shoot me and mine; it's not just doxing which I gotta worry about, and there's a lot of folks who'd find the pain and misery from their attack on me enjoyable rather than a deterrent.
Frankly, on so many levels, we'd be better off becoming space-sentinelese, as least to this species. This reeks of deniable ratfuck to me; give us a groupmind, watch ourselves destroy each other through our own shitter, move in on the remains under the pretense of helping a victim so that the other cultures can't legally fuck them.
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