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Borg (transfer from Disqus)

It's reasonable thinking for an eager researcher, but the mission commander should know better than to trust that a single-planet civilization will be easy to hide from on its home planet.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

maybe we could do [a] covert landing
I haven't [said] "yes" yet

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Carefulrogue (transfer from Disqus)

Ah, I really do like the trope of assuming humanity is primitive. These poor aliens are going to have such a bad day.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

If wishful thinking were heat, Gharr would spontaneously combust. Just off the top of my head I can think of at least three reasons a civ could be throwing around lots of radio at a tech level far past the point where Alliance textbooks say that radio should be obsolete. And that's assuming the textbooks themselves are right.

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Siren (transfer from Disqus)

Yeah... They made some assumptions they maybe shouldn't have. No laser comms but lots of satellites and radar.






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Insectoids in a lot of ways are the weird ones among the Alliance members. Besides having a completely unpronounceable name of the species, they have dextero amino acid biochemistry, which makes their food and biosphere to be inedible by the rest of the Alliance, and vice versa.