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For Hundreds of years we looked up & yearned to reach the stars. We yearned to hear the sound of Space. Billions of lives, scurrying about wondering if they were alone. Technology advanced & we pushed on & our yearning got stronger. There is no God yet we would bow down if we met intelligent life, outside.
50 years ago we finally stepped off our planet & we went out there. As fast as we went out there, we raced back home. We conquered space & no longer required to step back, unless we can go further. It was 1 small step for Man, one Giant Leap for mankind.
[declassified]
We landed & The Rocks were watching as if they have seen us before, so familiar. They told us to Leave & Never come back. We discoursed with them but they had no interest only a sense of Urgency. We told them we meant them no harm & wanted to Ally with them. To learn from 1 another. At this they became furious & Called us the Great Mistake, & revealed to us Truths of the universe. Truths that humbled us & terrified us to our core. We are the envy of the Stars & that no space is uninhabited & showed us the density of the Dead Space, parallels upon parallels. We were made in [redacted] image. 4 of Them partially revealed themselves as the leader, without moving approached us & said "We know you will Call out. But do not respond. Do NOT Respond. DO NOT RESPOND!" it was at once a voice spoken but at the same time it was seen & felt. These short words were spoken in the 4th Dimension. I remember distinctly when they looked like, their image is burned into my eyes & I see them everywhere & hear their breathing but I cannot describe what they look like, if they were the Pacifists...my God. I always feel I am there & here in 2 spaces with my head here & upside down above me looking at the world reversed. It's not unlike schizophrenia, but I envy them.[end of declassified report]

What do we do? We know we are no longer alone. They knew that we were going to call out, we haven't yet but now how can we call out but how can we NOT call out? 3 years of deliberation & we decided to Call Out. The state of our world is deteriorating after we tore open a small hole & things unseen have been pouring out. We don't see them, we only feel their affect on us. (this will be redacted from public & private records, it's madness that a sound mind will not accept)
We called out 1st with a package that had some of our details, primitive. Decades passed & we kept calling, our steps were heavy & in bounds. If we are to prove our value we must show our ability to evolve through our technological prowess.
We got a response "Purpose?" they decoded our language (binary code through the {redacted}
All details after that were scrubbed from all records, only he had access & he's been gone for 75 years. But the rundown was this:
We responded & told them we wanted to ally & work along with them. We had a trade system of information for technology. They never asked anything that would reveal where we were or military. Truth be told we were glad because we did not reveal any of it in the case of an invasion we would have an element of surprise. They gave us the technology to seal the portal we opened & other technology that would 100yrs down the line allow us to travel in light years. every once in a while we would hear a tear in time space & the voice would say "STAY!" "DO NOT ACCEPT!" "OUR GREAT MISTAKE!" & "EVERYWHERE!" nobody knew of it because it was isolated to the communications room. We had good communication & relationship.

Then 129 years later we learned why they were giving us technology. We weren't just building our future of space travel, we were also building an anchor. They deceived us. They day we built the final reactor & connected all the other facilities, they locked in our position. They knew where we were & they were transmitting our location. One of the receivers came on & it was a projector that was aimed at the sky.
The binary communications were now over, they were speaking directly into our airwaves, not radio airwaves but the air itself. There was no was to un hear it & they gave us cures for every disease & abnormality we ever had, so not even the def could escape the terrible voices
"You were warned when you stepped on the Moon by your Sentinels, Your Guardians, they hid you from us but you called out & responded! We used one of your own to warn you, telling you to STAY! You dismissed it as cosmic noise, because We told you to & you never questioned it, over & over! We are coming, look up & behold Mankind, The Great Mistake. We ARE Envious & filled with fury!"
With that every eye shot up to look at the sky, it became a large screen that covered the entire expanse. The chips we had installed in us through them made it possible for them to transmit the entire 600 year story of what we were seeing in mere moments.
The picture you see is of a man that is over 600 years old. He is an eternal battery. They feed off of him & regenerate everything they eat as they eat away. Because humans have the innate ability to feel others they exploit that ability to have us all connect & share every single experience we are individually experiencing. There is so much more.
Why did they envy us? Because we Loved, we rested, we aged & we died. And we did NOT want any of those, so they gave us everything we wanted. Now we don't sleep, we don't Love, we don't age & we will never rest in peace.
I told you this was Our Great Mistake, DO NOT READ! Yet you read the story anyways. 400 years.
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This short story was inspired by Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem series of books. I just finished reading Three Body & I'm now starting The Dark Forest, last will be Death's End. I wrote this based strictly on the titles of the 2nd & 3rd book. I added my own Lovecraftian feel to it as Cixin & Lovecraft are the inspirations for most of my pieces here.
I literally came up with the story as I typed so please forgive the messy structure.

Description
For Hundreds of years we looked up & yearned to reach the stars. We yearned to hear the sound of Space. Billions of lives, scurrying about wondering if they were alone. Technology advanced & we pushed on & our yearning got stronger. There is no God yet we would bow down if we met intelligent life, outside.
50 years ago we finally stepped off our planet & we went out there. As fast as we went out there, we raced back home. We conquered space & no longer required to step back, unless we can go further. It was 1 small step for Man, one Giant Leap for mankind.
[declassified]
We landed & The Rocks were watching as if they have seen us before, so familiar. They told us to Leave & Never come back. We discoursed with them but they had no interest only a sense of Urgency. We told them we meant them no harm & wanted to Ally with them. To learn from 1 another. At this they became furious & Called us the Great Mistake, & revealed to us Truths of the universe. Truths that humbled us & terrified us to our core. We are the envy of the Stars & that no space is uninhabited & showed us the density of the Dead Space, parallels upon parallels. We were made in [redacted] image. 4 of Them partially revealed themselves as the leader, without moving approached us & said "We know you will Call out. But do not respond. Do NOT Respond. DO NOT RESPOND!" it was at once a voice spoken but at the same time it was seen & felt. These short words were spoken in the 4th Dimension. I remember distinctly when they looked like, their image is burned into my eyes & I see them everywhere & hear their breathing but I cannot describe what they look like, if they were the Pacifists...my God. I always feel I am there & here in 2 spaces with my head here & upside down above me looking at the world reversed. It's not unlike schizophrenia, but I envy them.[end of declassified report]

What do we do? We know we are no longer alone. They knew that we were going to call out, we haven't yet but now how can we call out but how can we NOT call out? 3 years of deliberation & we decided to Call Out. The state of our world is deteriorating after we tore open a small hole & things unseen have been pouring out. We don't see them, we only feel their affect on us. (this will be redacted from public & private records, it's madness that a sound mind will not accept)
We called out 1st with a package that had some of our details, primitive. Decades passed & we kept calling, our steps were heavy & in bounds. If we are to prove our value we must show our ability to evolve through our technological prowess.
We got a response "Purpose?" they decoded our language (binary code through the {redacted}
All details after that were scrubbed from all records, only he had access & he's been gone for 75 years. But the rundown was this:
We responded & told them we wanted to ally & work along with them. We had a trade system of information for technology. They never asked anything that would reveal where we were or military. Truth be told we were glad because we did not reveal any of it in the case of an invasion we would have an element of surprise. They gave us the technology to seal the portal we opened & other technology that would 100yrs down the line allow us to travel in light years. every once in a while we would hear a tear in time space & the voice would say "STAY!" "DO NOT ACCEPT!" "OUR GREAT MISTAKE!" & "EVERYWHERE!" nobody knew of it because it was isolated to the communications room. We had good communication & relationship.

Then 129 years later we learned why they were giving us technology. We weren't just building our future of space travel, we were also building an anchor. They deceived us. They day we built the final reactor & connected all the other facilities, they locked in our position. They knew where we were & they were transmitting our location. One of the receivers came on & it was a projector that was aimed at the sky.
The binary communications were now over, they were speaking directly into our airwaves, not radio airwaves but the air itself. There was no was to un hear it & they gave us cures for every disease & abnormality we ever had, so not even the def could escape the terrible voices
"You were warned when you stepped on the Moon by your Sentinels, Your Guardians, they hid you from us but you called out & responded! We used one of your own to warn you, telling you to STAY! You dismissed it as cosmic noise, because We told you to & you never questioned it, over & over! We are coming, look up & behold Mankind, The Great Mistake. We ARE Envious & filled with fury!"
With that every eye shot up to look at the sky, it became a large screen that covered the entire expanse. The chips we had installed in us through them made it possible for them to transmit the entire 600 year story of what we were seeing in mere moments.
The picture you see is of a man that is over 600 years old. He is an eternal battery. They feed off of him & regenerate everything they eat as they eat away. Because humans have the innate ability to feel others they exploit that ability to have us all connect & share every single experience we are individually experiencing. There is so much more.
Why did they envy us? Because we Loved, we rested, we aged & we died. And we did NOT want any of those, so they gave us everything we wanted. Now we don't sleep, we don't Love, we don't age & we will never rest in peace.
I told you this was Our Great Mistake, DO NOT READ! Yet you read the story anyways. 400 years.
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This short story was inspired by Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem series of books. I just finished reading Three Body & I'm now starting The Dark Forest, last will be Death's End. I wrote this based strictly on the titles of the 2nd & 3rd book. I added my own Lovecraftian feel to it as Cixin & Lovecraft are the inspirations for most of my pieces here.
I literally came up with the story as I typed so please forgive the messy structure.