Alliance of Monsters (Complete Story) | HFY 

Indeed a race that hungry and desperate has taken an evolutionary step backwards by abandoning rational thought. They sought out an immediate solution to or a quick fix for a long term problem. Humanity and Earth to the Sulseeshi could have been a boon if they had been calm and rational. Now maybe it was more akin to a drowning man pulling his would be rescuer down with him in a blind panic, but be it born of malice or panic is semantics when a contact turns hostile without provocation.

I 100% agree But then again, if humanity sees an alien ship coming towards earth in the middle of world war 3 we would act the same, that’s just how dumb mob mentality is.

@@yisus4681 very true and well said Mob mentality is a factor.

Agree with original comment. answering sub comments: even if someone is coming to you seemingly to attack or enslave, you would ask for terms and try to communicate. It may be this species doesn't understand friendly interaction at all and that is the only reason they wouldn't communicate in the beginning. If they had to ability to cooperate enough to get off their planet, they should have an ability to cooperate with aliens and communicate before starting a war. But a poverty mentality, and dog eat dog view of the universe might be what sealed their fate...

@@yisus4681 True, but the difference in this story's scenario, is that they had actually been communicating for a while before they attack without warning.

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Much like humans...

I’m game

A whole new meaning to embracing death ay 😅

Same

For any who don't: a bacterium is alive. A dog is alive and sentient. A human is alive and sentient and sapient.

@@joelceda3500 If only that was an explanation... A dog is both Sentient and Sapient. Case and point, roll up a newspaper and whack a dog a few times and see how it reacts when you raise the newspaper tomorrow. That's cognitive thinking, learning from an experience and predicting a potential outcome. 100% of all mammals are both, but that's not the point. All creatures that are both sentient and sapient have a knowledgebase built one a single concept of fight or flight's root basis. A guy sees a pretty girl, it's a positive feeling. Sees an ugly girl and it's a negative. From that root association buried deep, below our subconscious thought process is the basis for all knowledge, opinions, ideas, etc. that humanity has ever had. It builds pathways that we don't even recognize are associated but it's always a positive or negative. Hot burns and causes pain evolves into don't touch fire or test the coffee before drinking. Sentience is the emotional positive or negatives. Sapient is the cognitive positive or negatives. Hitting something hurts, falling is hitting something. Being up high and falling will really hurt, so I don't want to fall.