Thoughts of an ex-Imperial indentured Flight deck officer about humanity and the Thargoids
21 Dec 2022Anantyanta
I’m feeling so frustrated and betrayed. Ever since I’ve learned how much we, as humanity, have failed in establishing peaceful contact with the race we call the Thargoids.I do not know what exactly triggered the so-called „First Thargoid war“. But I do know what started the current one - we, humans, could not stay away from the systems, structures and resources of another sentient, space-faring race.
We had to pillage and destroy what the others seeded, taking whatever we wanted because we thought we could.
Just as we have done for thousands of years, if the old-Earth based stories on colonisation can be believed.
The Empire specifically has a lot to answer here - „We are the best, the strongest, we have every right because we are the Empire.“
Ugh. I hate that.
The Federation does a very similar thing, just with a few other dogmas and slogans.
Only this time, we stole from an ancient, powerful race, which - with a lot of restraint! - showed us that they did not appreciate that.
Instead of trying to communicate, humanity pursued the most aggressive tactics towards the owners of the „colonised“and exploited systems; and we even went as far as murdering those who made too much progress towards establishing contact.
I’m not politician enough to answer why we did this - power hunger of those already in power is a likely part of it. Allowing Aegis to become corrupted and also too powerful, is another.
And then far too many people earn far too much on weapons…
So we sabotaged every meaningful attempt at establishing peaceful contact, even tried another genocide.
And now that ancient, powerful race has had enough. Not sure if they see us as just some pest - like humans regard cockroaches - or, more likely, they understand that we are sentient and have therefore spared us for so long. They have lost their patience and are now out to hunt us.
Thargoid hunting? Yeah, Thargoids hunting humans… eradicating the pest that we have proven to be.
So in short - we break and enter, steal and destroy. The house owner makes it clear that this is not appreciated, so we get bigger weapons to better be able to continue our aggressive behaviour, escalating the transgression. And when the house owner has enough, and goes into counter attack - we complain, cry „bad bugs“ and claim „Glory to mankind“ while rapidly loosing ground.
I’m so ashamed of us.
So, what do I do now?
What *can* we do now?
I think we should retreat. From every system the Thargoids had claimed earlier - move out, evacuate civilians, get them out of the way.
We should also try *everything we can* to establish peaceful contact - Professors Palin and Tesreau (was that her name?) and…I cannot remember her real name, just „D-2“seem to be our best chance.
We should de-escalate, show that we are capable of peace.
So, I will help with science in what little area I can, and I will help evacuate civilians, as most of them did not have a choice or voice in this war.
I will not fight the Thargoids, and I will *not* help rebuilding in their systems.
We asked for what is happening, and our best chance now is to be humble and cooperative.
Knowing humans, we are screwed.