[ WP ] Humanity and an alien race have been conversing for centuries across space . One race has finally developed the technology to visit the other , and today , we meet face to face for the first time .

This will probably be my last recording. My name's Carl Walker, junior biologist aboard the UES Friendship. I do n't know the date or the time. I may be the only surviving crew member. If anyone finds this, tell my family I love them. And tell the people of Earth we did our best. 
 
 
 As I've already said, we were trapped so bloody easily. The speed of it was stunning: the sudden loss of contact with the Captain's landing and then complete system lockdown. I was passing an evac station when the ship emitted it's single alert but even then, I almost got caught in the decompression. We must have lost 95 % of the crew right there. I did n't have to wait long before they took me away. 
 
 
 I think I know what they're doing. We had it all wrong, trusting them. I know that we did n't tell them everything either but my god, we're kids compared to them. They laid the bait and we could n't resist, that's how well they read us. Waited twenty-five years for us to come to them and then took everything we had, all our tech, libraries, samples. I know they're broadcasting altered holo back to earth, making it seem like all went well. Then they'll bait the hook some more. 
 
 
 I have to go, drop this cell soon. My eyes are pinned open, on some kind of conveyor belt and though I ca n't move my head there's something non-human next to me, struggling as I do. Chattering and shouting as I do. Up above, through the transparent dome I can just see the stars and a hundred different ships of friendship. 

