Fics like Forboding the Reign of Stupidity

When the Tahw first visited the M314 solar system, they found potential sentient life on the third planet. That was millennia ago (well, by our timeframe) so it was about time for a recon mission. The Tahw are a plant-like species that function as a herd, so to find an intelligent predatory animal like the PIS1 on M314-P3 is particularly intriguing! Can an ecosystem even survive that? Or have they meanwhile eradicated themselves, like all the other sentient predators that they had encountered on previous missions? As the Tahw mission team around matriarch T’hem advance further into the foreign solar system, and discover several non-natural objects on the way, they slowly learn that the PIS1 species has not only survived, but has advanced to an early space-exploration stage of development. What implications does that have? Is a first contact inevitable? Can they be won over as allies, or is their aggressive, territorial instinct stronger than intelligence and scientific curiosity? How do you even talk to a predator? And what shape will the planet be in when they arrive? They can only speculate... OR The answer to the question: If aliens visited us now, what would they think of us?

Fics like Forboding the Reign of Stupidity

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