[ WP ] Despite being peaceful , humans are universally feared through out the galaxy as harbingers of death . They are hosts to the most dangerous diseases and bacteria ever discovered . Average number of fatalities from a single human exposure is ~8,000 with some exceptions . Avoid at all costs .

Humanity didn ’ t just announce itself to the Universe, it was the first call any species had ever received. Without having left their planet of origin, mankind managed to make themselves known throughout all of existence. Many took generations to decipher, or even to notice, their means of contact: an entanglement technology unhindered by limitations of distance, systematically spinning particles from one end of all things to the other. 
 
 Tragic, how many reactor failures it caused. Still, time heals all wounds* and work began on the task of translation, the entangled particles providing consistent parallel communication. Opening with the means to determine relative locations was somewhat bold, as the provided examples were easily reversed to lead back to the source of the transmission. 
 
 At any rate, those species capable of intergalactic travel finally had a direction to point; one that offered more than just the next overpopulation-relieving colony, or another desolate rock to mine. For a great portion of them, first contact came during the journey, as they crossed one another ’ s sensor range and investigated. Fortunately, benevolent species appear to outnumber aggressive species and only 35 % of these encounters led to a first contact war. 
 
 The Convening was beautiful. Curiosity regarding the limits of sentience, the question of life itself, finally expanded upon. Ambassadors and envoys gathered together to share ideas, culture, and belief, to understand one another. Regarded as the catalyst for expansion of mind and soul for all, The Convening was a triumph of spirit for all sentient life to revel in. 
 
 Others, however, saw it as a chaotic disaster. Especially those who landed in ‘ countries ’ not privy to the fact that alien life had been contacted. Or those arriving privately, without consent of their governments. Or those that warped in only to find no established network of traffic management and were obliterated upon entering the same position as another vessel. 
 
 While initial reports differ, one thing could be agreed: Earth hosted an envious diversity of life that visitors could barely comprehend. Not only had they found sentient beings in their journey, the variety of creatures told of incredible possibilities for the ecosystems of their home worlds. A carefully orchestrated breeding and distribution program was a high priority. So high, in fact, that a few of them did not wait for such a program to be implemented and harvested specimens immediately. 
 
 All involved were so grateful to Humanity for bringing them together that they granted the use of several faster-than-light vessels, in order to see them thrive amongst the stars. Some were so grateful, that humanity used their ships regardless of express permission or the training required to operate them. Interestingly, Earth ’ s abundant population was greater than the sum of all other species and within a matter of weeks, Human was the majority demographic in every inhabited system. 
 
 The new Universal Congress faced its first crisis within minutes of establishment: a plague spreading throughout approximately 50 % of the Universal population. The greatest living minds assembled to apply their expertise in combat of the disease ( s ) that ravaged the peoples of creation. Mostly Humans, though, since everyone else called in sick. 
 
 After months of research into the biology of all species, tracing the passage of every vessel in operation, every encounter between species, down to the most minute detail, an answer was found. The report was brought to the floor of the Universal Parliament ( they changed the name for some reason ) to deliver their findings to all present. 
 
 “ It ’ s us. ” Declared the Human scientist to the Human representatives. “ Best projections put it as just us in roughly 45 minutes when the last alien dies of herpes. It ’ s currently writing something unintelligible over there. ” 
 
 In striving to answer the age-old question of whether Humanity is alone in the universe, they finally had their answer. 
 
 At least they ’ ll always have herpes. 
 
 *Mostly. Several primitive races have since been encountered living amongst the ruins of advanced societies, theorized to have shared supremely intelligent quantum hive-minds prior to humanity ’ s message. Recent reports refer to this event as ‘ The Galactic Lobotomy ’. NB: The event was universal, not galactic. 
 
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 My first ever prompted writing, be gentle, or do n't, I may never look at this again out of fear. But are you willing to take that risk? 
 
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