[ WP ] Aliens have just made contact with Earth . Strangely enough , it seems that human technology is superior .

When we first scanned the third planet from the edge of the solar system, it seemed ripe for the taking. The planet was full of natural resources, and its dominant species would likely offer little to no resistance. 
 
 The'humans' appeared to have limited technological development, with primitive weapons such as lead projectiles expelled by forced gas. Some of their more advanced weapons were chemically powered high-velocity missiles with explosive warheads, but they were still no threat to us. 
 
 Our shields easily deflected any of the projectiles or explosives the humans could throw our way. We quickly made large advances into their cities, taking their infrastructure and laying siege to their military installations. 
 
 Our overconfidence was our downfall, in the end. We saw the primitive weapons and the tiny computers the humans used... no larger than one of our reference manuals... and obviously assumed them to be inferior. Nothing like the megaframes in our capital ships. 
 
 Their communicators also looked to be a joke, as they were so small, they fit into the palm of their hands. With tiny cases and miniscule power supplies, they could n't have had more than a 50 foot range, at best. We were baffled on how they managed to last as long as they did with no backpack power packs to run them. 
 
 One of our platoons, emboldened by a string of successful military actions, was overrun by one of the human defenders using some sort of energy weapon they called a'microwave transmitter'. We still do n't know exactly what the device was, but the effect of it was devastating: it boiled our soldiers alive in their protective armour! The humans then dissected our brethren, and their technology, learning our secrets. But that small victory was n't the worst part. 
 
 As it turns out, humans have developed their computing technology with an element called'silicon'. Something we knew existed, but was never present on our homeworld in any kind of abundance. Their computers are much faster and smaller than our own megaframe circuits, as they are microscopic in design. The human computers ( which we assumed were inferior due to small size ) were actually incredibly powerful. Magnitudes of order more powerful than our own systems. 
 
 Once they managed to penetrate our computer networks, the sheer computational power of their own devices overwhelmed our own. Our main capital ship's information storage core was overloaded and shut down within minutes. Within hours, they had decimated half of our fleet, causing life support failures, reactor overloads, and other catastrophes aboard our ships. Those who survived abandoned the invasion, leaving us stranded on this planet. 
 
 We still do n't know how exactly how they managed to disable our ships, but our interception of their communication signals seems to keep hearing the same phrase over and over: `` They have no firewall,'' which is usually followed by a strange barking sound that humans seem to make when they are amused. 
 
 We do n't know what a'firewall' is, but evidently it's something humans have developed that allows them to quickly disable our computer systems. 
 
 I just hope this'firewall' does n't have the ability to disable my personal life support system, or those of us who remain are surely doomed.
