They attacked a human outpost thinking that these small, squishy, beings would be easy prey.
They learned the truth, and broadcasted their apologies, and a dire warning about humans. -- Anon Guest
This is an urgent message to anyone crossing into this solar system. Beware. Do not attack the cogniscents in this area. Do not raid the settlements in this area. Do not go within zero point eight Standard Astral Units[1] of any rocky planetoid in this system. They will detect you. They will chase you. They will hunt you down.
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We thought they were weak. We thought they were defenceless. After all, our scans revealed that they were growing tame vegetation and building their houses out of vegetation. We thought they had no weapons, no ships, and no guns. We were wrong.
The initial run was a wild success. We gathered so many of them into our holds. For the second run... they shot back. As individuals, from formerly-hidden installations... and from ships that seemingly came out of nowhere.
They were very good at fighting back. We believed that releasing our catches back to them would save us.
We were wrong about that, too.
Even though we returned all that we took, they pursued us. More and more of their fighting ships emerged from places we did not see. They shot us down. They hunted us through their system. Even other rocky planets hid more of them. Their technological capability was far, far above our initial estimates.
Worse and worse, they would not let us leave their system. They had automated systems in the Oort cloud. They had stations by their wormhole. They had weapons everywhere.
This is a warning. Ignore it at your peril. I have but a few moments to launch this message before they cut through the door.
Powers have mercy on my soul.
[1] The average distance between a star and its Oort Cloud.
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