Tevun-Krus #1 - First Contact Read online

  First Contact

  If you were abducted by aliens, what would they learn about the human race?

  that they’re bloomin’ odd.

  What alien race would you most like to be a part of and why?

  I rather liked Q in Star Trek. It’d be quite cool to be able to go anywhere and do anything, at least for a few millennia anyway.

  If aliens invaded, would you bow down to our new alien leaders or fight them in resistance?

  If aliens invaded, I suspect fighting wouldn’t be an option (read Trust by David Moody, it’s on Wattpad). All that Will Smithian, Independence Day stuff is complete bull. If they’ve managed to travel this far, a bunch of tool wielding apes ain’t gonna stop ‘em. If the alien was more of a microbe, then we might have a chance.

  Do you think we are alone in this universe?

  - No. Whether we’ll ever ascertain that or be able to have contact depends on many factors including communication, travel, whether the races are amicable or hostile, or any other numerous factors. I’d quite like to see it happen in my lifetime though. I think the most likely form of life we’ll encounter is something pretty basic, and probably within our own solar system. I think that there will be many other forms of life out there, in the same way that there are many other species on this planet. Will we make contact with another race similar to our own? Who knows, it’s a very big place.

  There’s still a hell of a lot we don’t know about our own solar system, let alone the larger galaxy or universe. We may find life on Europa before we find signs from elsewhere: we may find a large watery marble… the universe is almost infinitely large (apparently), and then there’s all the parallel universe theories and whatever else SF writers and scientists want to ponder about.

  This is why I love SF; so many questions, so much potential, so much we don’t know, and of course so much scope left to write some cool stories =]