WTF are you waiting for! Shit or get off the pot you intergalactic squatters! This ain’t the Truman Show, give us communism or fuuuuuck off back to Vegas Prime

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netOP
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    And even worse, any warlike species that does this would also probably attempt to reverse engineer their tech and now you’ve got a warlike, aggressive species with stolen warp drives or whatever, ready to make war on the rest of the galaxy.

    Some kind of self-defense would be a relatively minor addition to their mission and would be an important emergency necessity. Even out of date tech from their perspective could be centuries or millennia ahead of ours.

    I wonder if this is the crux of the potential political debate/crisis among the aliens

    I have no doubts the elites of earth would plunge the planet into nuclear Holocaust or at the very least WW3 in the face of any uplifting mission, the aliens may not necessarily be concerned with their own safety but rather the safety of the masses and ecosystems ruled by Earth elites

    Without a sizable occupation force instilling some form of rudimentary order post-intervention, many humans would be left at the mercy of rump states and imperial remnants, labeled “alien collaborators” and massacred en masse

    This would present a hell of a moral, logistical, and political challenge even for an advanced interstellar state, if they fuck this up Humanity and Earth could end up in an extremely mal-developed state for centuries or more

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      Yup. This is exactly why i think theyre actually pretty wise to do nothing for now. Atleast for the time being while earth might suck we are in a sorta stable state. Sure theres some mass killing going on here and there but its nothing compared to what could happen. I mean if the global supply chain collapsed youd have billions starving to death within a few months. I highly doubt the aliens would be prepared to feed an entire planet indefinitely just like that. Its a logistics nightmare.

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      Excellent points! And this is all assuming some kind of magical Faster Than Light travel and communications. Otherwise the aliens would be left with basically just the stuff they bring with them on a trip that could take centuries or more. So any hasty steps on their part could just end up never getting undone.