“Understand that there is a whole lot of guessing going one. I’d like to think it’s intelligent guessing based on a good deal of knowledge but, at lot of this is based on how humans think, we still know almost nothing about how the intelligent life of Oaxion thinks.”
“Understood.”
“The first smell has been interpreted, humans. We did send them a few smells in the original packet, things that we could not send as a whole, like a human. We sent pictures, hair, skin cells, even a little blood to represent a human. They applied a different smell to each sample but they also seemed to understand that as a group the samples were meant to help them understand our make up and they labeled the group with a single smell. We in turn have labeled that single smell as human. I tell you this so you can get an idea as to how much of this we have to speculate.”
“We do understand, please read your interpretation of the message on the plastic stick.”
He clears his throat and begins, “Humans, death and putrefaction. Humans Freedom polyvinyl chloride food web fire death. Oaxion birds smell, smell, smell humans. Human birds Oaxion death. Oaxion birds Earth death. Humans smell Oaxion? Oaxion smell, smell, humans. Grow Oaxion Earth? Four thousand smells? Eight thousand smells, smells” he stopped reading and waited for a reaction. The room was quiet. “I can tell you what we think it means but understand..,”
“Right, a lot of guessing. Please continue.”
“Humans the bringers of death and putrefaction. Humans who brought a gift of polyvinyl chloride food in order to trap us and burn us with fire. Oaxion sent ships to Earth in order to communicate. Oaxion ships were shot down by humans. Oaxion retaliated by sending war ships to fight. Do humans want to communicate now? Do humans want to grow together with Oaxion? You sent four thousands samples, send twice as many samples and include more smells.” He set his tablet down and turned to a member of his team.
“We think, and like Tim, I want you to understand we are far from being sure of anything in this message, but we think polyvinyl chloride is an edible food for the beings on Oaxion and Freedom. The suggestion is not only is it edible but it’s a food they enjoy. When Earth’s settlers on Freedom unloaded pallets of PVC pipe the intelligent life on Freedom thought is was a gift for them to eat. The settlers from Earth may have thought they were being invaded or they may have simply thought the Oaxion life forms were unintelligent and damaging their much needed pipe. We think the settlers may have used fire to get rid of the life form eating their PVC pipe. The Oaxion beings sent a fleet of ships to try to communicate with Earth. These ships were fired upon by the Earth and Oaxion retaliated. The package we sent to Freedom has been seen as an attempt to communicate and Freedom’s response to it is a request for more information.” The room erupted with questions.
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