Got your attention? Good. I been playing a lot of Stellaris

An advanced civ wouldn't need anything we have, and due to the engineering problem of moving living things around in space it's more likely we'll encounter some sort of Von Neumann probe. That could be very bad for us, as it would likely multiply and harvest everything in our solar system, including the biomass. It's what humans would do.

>>9063688
There was a really good book about the Fermi paradox basically saying ancient humans made a Von Neumann probe that fucked them over in the end and is the reason there are no aliens around I think it's the Three Body Problem.

There is the idea that humans may be making a unique discovery, also that something random like some stupid chemical in cow shit is a super rare component for medicine or space travel or something for that alien species.

>>9063700
Is that that chinese sci fi?

>>9063662
>Stellaris

I had high hopes for that game until I crushed it on the hardest difficulty in the first and only play through (owned the most planets or something ending). The interdimensional enemy was pretty brutal, but luckily it popped up near a bottle neck just as 90% of the military fleet was near the area and was an old battle ground with tons of those sentry outposts armed to the teeth.

>If FTL aliens found earth, what would happen?

They'd probably note us then take our sun or something equally devastating that they use for their FTL fuel. If they take it all, it won't matter if we can make FTL, we'd have no fuel and thus never be a threat.

>>9063708
Apparently the most efficient fleet you can build is to just spam tech level 1 corvettes, it's more cost effective to build 2000 corvettes than field a normal fleet, and they wreck everything. Kinda disappointing.

>>9063704
Yeah, I picked it up randomly one day. Was actually pretty great all around a nice solid sci-fi book with minimal hand-waviness.

>>9063700
>There was a really good book about the Fermi paradox basically saying ancient humans made a Von Neumann probe that fucked them over in the end and is the reason there are no aliens around I think it's the Three Body Problem.

That's definitely not from the Three Body Problem.

>>9063716
Another book to the backlog.

>>9063713
I had 6 main fleets that did nothing but circle patrols. It was literally the last video game I've played a year ago or so. I was always skirting problems with too many ships. Anytime I had a big battle my PC would nearly melt. The thing was I was almost always behind everyone else in tech levels.

>>9063722
>>9063721
We'll fug

>>9063721
Damn you are right, now to spend forever trying to find it.

>>9063708
OP here, I've put 109 hours into stellaris, loving every moment aside from how cruisers block my corvettes.

When did you play?
>>9063713
When did you play? Cause a fleet of corvettes gets wrecked by cruisers with medium weapons. Theres been a lot of patching.
>>9063700
I disagree with the fermi paradox.

We don't have views high enough in definition to spot ships, and they might be using a technology we cannot view, like wormhole travel(which is the most likely FTL).

Also, they could just be masking their ships to avoid messing with preFTL species.

Or maybe, humans will be the first. I don't see us nuking ourselves anytime soon, and our tech is moving up pretty fast. Only thing we should worry about is a gamma ray burst.