The Extinction of Traitors (2019)

Scientists picked up signs of life and technology and the information spread to many solar systems, since each specie has its traitors.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, certain rules have grown, without any one specie setting them as rules. For instance, no specie, apart from one, is permitted to land on any such newly discovered planet. They must all wait at a distance, using technology to blur their ships, but none are permitted to use technology that makes the ships invisible. They must be blurred, as far as the new specie being visited are concerned, so that none may positively identify them as spaceships, but they must remain visible so that each specie may keep a record of all the others.

The one specie usually permitted to land and live among the locals is usually mine. We have no interest in staking a claim on the new to us solar systems. All we want is to study the specie. We prize knowledge above material possessions - even though such knowledge be of a melancholic nature.

Such study often starts (the time being determined by their technology and the effect it has on dark energy) about two centuries or three to five generations before the specie plans its own extinction.

It is our duty to identify the moment of such collapse, so that we can notify the others. At such a time, we depart from the planet, for we cannot always foresee the extent of damage to be caused by the arrivals of those competing to claim the solar system (such claim is only acknowledged if the central planet is owned by one specie).

As is always the case, we have proof of unlawful visits by each of the species, but we shall not comment on it, as long as no colonisation attempts jump the gun. Only once eight five to ninety percent of the local specie has died off, can the attempts to lay claim begin. The small number of locals still surviving do not deserve consideration, for they have themselves placed no value on the existence of their specie.

It is time for me and my people to leave. We will not speak of it to other species, but some of us have made an attempt to save your specie, but we were attacked as liars, racists, homophobes and other insulting terms meant to indicate we are traitors. I was one of them and I have pleaded with you to fight to save yourselves, but I was and am ignored.

I am departing with sadness overwhelming me, and this article I am publishing is my last attempt – though it be nothing more than a wasted effort. Within two years, all that I expect will remain alive are the traitors of Mankind, and for their extinction I do not grieve.

Note:
I have been asked, why not take some children with us so as to attempt to give them the correct upbringing, thus helping their specie adjust and grow in a healthy manner. We are a humane people and it has been attempted a number of times, causing us damage, for despite adjustments and healthy growth, always a time of reversion arrives – so it is no longer permitted.

Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου

(Alexander Zenon Eustace)

^{6th January, 2019}

• posted on Steemit: 6th January, 2019
  

PS: The above story was inspired by the video:

THIS IS REAL FOOTAGE FOLKS full respect goes to John Lenard Walson

... as provided by @cryptothoughts in his post:

https://steemit.com/nasa/@cryptothoughts/wow-real-video-footage-of-interstellar-craft