Cosmic Companions

We Earthlings know little of your species, and less of your history, so I am going to take a shot in the dark here. A shot through our sky to your ship, through the distance of biology and physics, to your minds. 

I think you are alone. 

As alone as we thought we were until today. Cosmically alone, profoundly alone. For why else would you be the first to find us, and why else would you appear in a single ship? 

Another shot in the dark, from my own experience: you tell yourself that this loneliness is freedom. Independence. You have a whole universe to explore!

But being alone is not being free. 

I think that you were looking for companionship, the way we all do down here, but on a grander scale. 

You had plans. You fantasized about how perfect we would be, how developed as a society. You did not plan to find the real us, with our flaws and wars and biases. And so, you have hesitated, hovering in our sky. 

I am here to give you a message: independence is not isolation. Independence is companionship. Independence is teamwork. We are not truly independent until we have supported someone else, lifted them up. And done this knowing that, someday, they will do the same for us.

And so, I implore you to lower your weapons and offer your help. You have found intelligence in this universe, and I beg you not to ruin the opportunities for friendship, companionship, and freedom that that offers.