When Galactic Empire Realizes Earth Is Off Limits | HFY | A Short Sci-Fi Story 

To guardians, that's what they are. For such an ancient and superior race, punishing someone out of curiosity would be stupid and would only create more careless and arrogant "spectators". When you get older and more experienced you don't just forbid kids from trying to figure things out, you teach them how to do it safely, how to have limits when necessary and using a necessary amount of freedom and information to start it on their own. In that case, don't interfere with any of the galaxy's biological treasures. Learn how to do it first. You are not taking into account how many centuries this status has existed, how many were destroyed for it to exist and how long it took for the rest of the galaxy to take a “step” towards the diplomatic approach.

@@sidineybottega1837 Your explanation would be reasonable if they were actual children with the same naivety, but they aren't and the guardians aren't parents. The fear of knowing no one returns from the place worked as protection for so long that a galactic empire forgot why it was off limits, so the argument of killing trespassers would bring more doesn't really work. On the other hand, the curiosity for meeting new species or discovering potentially advanced or ancient tech, while knowing that they would only be escorted away, would inspire countless to try their luck. Low risk, high reward. I stand by my original judgement, but I appreciate the well worded argument.

Maybe what they regard as part of the sol system is larger then what we would consider as part of the solution system. Or maybe the gaurdians wanted the space around earth mostly untouched for who knows what reasons. But you make a good point

They do seem to get around very fast in the solar system.

@@davidbate6346 yeap, still FTL, for Pluto to earth is more than 5.25 hours for light to travel. And that is in closest orbital distance... that can extend to about 5.5 , (its 8 min 20 sec from sun to earth adding 16 minutes.. all them stories treat those planets to be perfectly in line towards earth... they are most of times NOT in any form of alignment

Yes - about to say the same thing when I read your comment... Thewy should review these AI stories before posting them else we won't come back....

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Other Alternate ending yes humans are the guardians and that all life in the galaxy came from Earth 🌍. They seeded life and then watched as their creations became the empire.

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