There’s 14 races visiting, all of which are so far advanced that what they can do looks like magic. One race apparently could destroy all of this solar system with a single thought. The race that made us over 700k years ago could come back any day and wipe us out in the course of a week like they did 6 times before. The most explicit deals we’ve made and the most extensive contact we’ve had are with the some of the worst of them and the reasons/details for these deals are completely primitive and embarrassing and have put all of humanity at danger. In return for us letting them abduct and experiment on us we’ve only gotten little assistance with the technology we technically stole from multiple races and that information we’ve received is skewed and partly to get us to develop on a path they can manipulate better. In the 80’s and 90’s we screwed over the ones we made deals with, so much so in 1999 another race anticipated a potential hot war coming sometime around the 2020’s/2030’s. Our entire civilization has been given such extreme misinformation that our numbers aren’t even universally correct enough for us to actually develop the technology needed to advance anywhere close to these other species. This planet was intended as a zoo of sorts to experiment with creating a slave race and our genetics have been manipulated to this effect for hundreds of thousands of years; also this isn’t even our planet it technically belongs to another more advanced species that lives in caverns underground and predates the evolutionary processes of our own by almost a million years. Just one of these would be a terrifying real truth to have to confront in your day to day to life let alone having to come to terms with all of it. I often think about a line in the game Mass Effect when confronting the reaper Sovereign for the first time: “By using [our technology], your civilization develops along the paths we desire. … You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." submitted by /u/SLIMMEYDWG [link] [comments]