Talk:Events/@comment-213.211.155.78-20190923210216

I have found an event ingame that I can't find on this page.

It asks  you to choose between transmitting the greeting (which I did) or not, then between shaking the aliens off or letting them in (which I did). The result was loss of colonists (103) but gain of culture (21%).

Here is the final text:

As the seedship approaches the next planet its scanners detect unmistakable signs of a spacefaring civilisation. Several planets, moon, and asteroids are marked with colonies or industrial sites, and the target planet itself is covered in teeming cities.

A spacecraft launches from the planet on a chemical rocket flame and begins burning into an orbit that will match the seedship's course. It beams a radio signal at the seedship which sounds like it contains language, but the AI cannot make sense of it.

The seedship's builders gave it an inter-species greeting it could use to open communications with intelligent aliens: a pulsed series of prime numbers establishing intelligence, followed by a diagram depicting human figures and explaining the seedship's mission and its peaceful intentions. The AI transmits this now in response to the approaching craft's radio signal, and the two ships begin a slow back-and-forth process of attempting to establish communication. Meanwhile, the alien ship comes alongside.

A hatch opens on the side of the alien ship and several creatures in bulky spacesuits emerge. They float over to the seedship and clamber around its surface, chattering incomprehensibly over their radios. When they find the sleep chambers they gather round in what looks like excitement and begin removing the outer layers of one of the chambers to take a look at the human being inside. Some of the aliens take pictures of the sleeping humans with their suit-mounted cameras, while others begin experimenting with the life support system. One of them trips an emergency release valve and twitches in shock as cryogenic gas vents in its face. The panicked aliens rapidly replace the shielding and retreat to their ship, but the accident has killed 103 colonists.

As the alien ship pulls away, it finally transmits a message that the AI is able to partially comprehend. The aliens have deciphered part of the seedship's greeting, and have replied with a brief introduction to their own species' culture. The greeting manages to convey that the aliens wish the seedship luck with finding a home for the human race around another star, but that a human colony would not be welcome in their system. The AI scans the sky for another target planet and moves on.

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