Garbotalk: RD, I realize that you are advanced, and I respect the fact that we are unable to match you in most regards. But while calling us overclocked chimps, lab rats and skunk apes may accurately portray how we are viewed in the universe, the condescension provokes us negatively. It displays a detachment and lack of respect that I don’t think you truly feel, or you would not have bothered to come here to help us at all.

It would help us to know that you fight not only AGAINST our ignorance, to motivate us to understand our predicament and to take action, but also fight FOR us, to represent us to the rest of the universe as our advocate. Is that not the case?

I envisioned a moral universal assembly who protect emerging species from exploitation. I now feel like Pollyanna, too hopeful and optimistic that ethics would grow at the same rate as technological and intellectual advancement in the universe. How disappointing to find out the truth was much worse than I ever imagined.

We have been abused, exploited, raped and murdered for millennia by those who should have known better. You too were once a less advanced species who had to learn to speak in real time, who were stuck between the ankh stage and the beacon stage for a while. Was your species as mistreated as ours in that critical time? Were others such as the Kayeen? How would your species respond if you had been treated so miserably?

Even so, I still believe that God has a plan for us, and will inspire us toward a better future, through the assistance and guidance of “sons of God” and “men of renown” such as yourself. We must turn the page and move on to the next chapter.

Reptiliandude: I feel bad for you.

I know that the truth hurts.

But lying to you about something so important goes against my own moral compass.

Over the years, I have seen many humans, claiming to represent species that either don’t exist, or are naïve dupes working in concert with the ones who seek to further exploit you.

That disinformation is both widespread and imbedded as a part of human culture.

The fact is, there isn’t any extra-solar species willing to step up as a whole and assist you merely out of the generosity of their own hearts.

That is because they either don’t know much about you as the information is extremely dated (nice horse and buggy), or the information about you is withheld, then filtered through ministries which then disseminate this information to their citizenry. What did you expect?

You can’t communicate in real time, so few can hear of you or your plight.

The first vessels that came to your solar system were self-replicating bots, searching for mining opportunities. It wasn’t Earth they were interested in, as it was high gravity, and too much water.

Another industry took interest in that.

And we’ve already discussed that one.

The general public of worlds light years removed from this place barely know of your existence, if at all.

Again, it is because radio transmissions take many light years to get to where they are going, and most advanced species learned the hard way that it’s not in their best interests to cheep like helpless baby chicks when the sky is filled with hungry predators who can zero in on them.

We thought that you’d have figured that one out when you listened to the skies around your world and heard nothing. Even the most primitive societies know that when the jungle suddenly grows quiet, there’s a predator prowling about. So what creatures in their right minds would assume that they are the only intelligent life in such a vast universe?

Unless they were either basking in an illusion of their own relevance and misusing scientific principles to support the premise or locked in belief systems which have no room for the rest of God’s children.

So, I’m telling you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.

What defines me from the others is that disquieting characteristic. The fact is, if you want people to care about you, you need your voices to be heard by transmitting them in real time. That way the common citizenry of your sister worlds light years from here can look around and say, “Who the fuck is that?” It lets them know that you exist and eventually brings The Assembly out of the darkness of the void to examine the anomaly in person.

All these stories about councils and federations and enclaves of concerned alien benefactors are utter rubbish.

That is not to say that there aren’t a few groups, (mostly religious) who are concerned about your situation. But the secular ones have no legal jurisdiction here. And the religious institutions which do express concern are put off by your species embrace of religious fundamentalism. It’s no secret among my own people that the ones who are your most vocal supporters also believe in that whole Son of God redeemer nonsense so many of your species seem so enamored with.

They claim that they don’t want to make the good lord angry by possibly interfering with his plan for humanity, or you mistaking them for introducing, “another Christ.”

They even have a bloody list they carry with them where this fellow gob smacked the religious hypocrites on other worlds as well.

They hold some influence, and they might be able to help you. But I think the prevailing opinion would be that having common religious affiliations isn’t the answer.

In fact, at this stage of the species societal evolution, it would probably create even worse problems than the ones they might solve.

You need to learn to speak in real time and evolve your monetary system so that you can engage in interplanetary trade.

If you develop a currency of real value that would be a huge step towards offering something more than genetic material.

That would open the doors to negotiations.

Especially, if you made yourselves heard on their worlds. None could put that genie back into the bottle.

Answer the beacon.

Garbotalk: It occurs to me that you are as advanced from me as I am to my cat. In that way, those of you with little empathy for us perceive us as unruly sheep who over populate the field and shit all over it. You take our fur and our fertilized grass, and then train dogs to supervise us so we don’t fall off a cliff. You take our body parts out of sight, in the back of the barn, so we don’t panic and break the fences down in a runaway herd.

Shepherds like you who have pet us and named us and watched us grow from birth are more attached to us than those who just buy our products at the mall or the grocery store.

We live such short lives in comparison to you that our deaths a few years earlier than expected don’t upset most anyone; after all, the greater good is served. The lives of the many outweigh the lives of a few sheep from one small farm that nobody sees anyway, it’s so far from town.

So the cries of sheep go unheard, except by other sheep in the pen, of course, and by the Shepherds who raise them. How can anybody get worked up about some stupid sheep who can’t even take care of themselves without dogs herding them?

Sheep happily play in the field and live generations of lives within the confines of a fence, never knowing how big the world really is or how beautiful, or how wonderful it is to have any real choice about anything at all. Oh, and sick sheep keep showing up to infect us and the grass we eat and play in is full of fertilizers that poison us slowly.

But we’re supposed to be grateful because at least the Shepherds pulls thorns from our hooves and build barns for us and shoot the wolves that try to kill us. Of course, the Shepherds do those things not from kindness or love of sheep, but only to ensure the greatest profit from the ranch.

If the flock gets too large or unruly, it is culled. Stupid, calm sheep are bred and stubborn or independent ones who stray from the herd are taken out.

And the God who made us all looks through our eyes at our suffering and sees the arrogance of the Shepherds who fence off His Earth and limit His creations and He judges them accordingly. He will send new Shepherds who break down the fences and frighten off the dogs and wolves and let the sheep go free.

Reptiliandude: Setting you free is the main idea behind your species answering the beacon.

That way there’s no argument, or bitching about profit loss or economic upheaval.

As for your cat…

Pretty sure the cat is smarter than the both of us.