The threats pulsed across the galaxy and when we beheld their vile contents our entire species panicked. We dissolved every liberty in favour of mass militarisation in response to the extant threat.
In the decades that it took to mobilise a preemptive attack, life was altered unrecognisably for the average person. When our first fleets arrived at the epicentre of the signals, all we found of the aliens was a device they left. A mirror, reflecting our own vitriol across the gulf of space back at Earth.
Paddy Dobson
28th January 2023