[ WP ] You are the leader of an Alien species about to make first contact with humans , with the offer to mentor us past this stage of our civilisation . What would be your first contact speech to Humanity ?

The first draft was a beautiful, flowering document that was more or less the same format as every other first contact speech prepared by his kind – praising the intelligence, the creativity of this sentient species, and offering to usher them into the galactic community to enter a new golden age of prosperity.... that was before the Xenologists briefed him. 
 
 Commander burned it. 
 
 Where they intelligent? Yes, frighteningly so. Creative? Most definitely, but in the most sick and twisted of ways. Prolific too, there were 10 billion of them. Not million, *10 billion*. The Commander asked thrice to clarify – no species was so numerous save the Bugs and when you counted individual queens there were maybe ten thousand individuals. 
 
 Yet it was not their numbers that frightened him, nor was their capacity for violence or their ability to sustain punishment that would kill most sentient life forms. And neither was it their overwhelming desire to consume, living as if their world could support ten times their number. 
 
 It was their duality of their brains. 
 
 They would not be susceptible to the meld. 
 
 Defects like their insanity could be purged over time – you start with the leaders, indoctrinating them, bringing their minds into the meld and converting them to the cause and over generations the rest would follow. It was the way it had always been done, and always would be, but their brains prevented that. 
 
 If they could not be bought into the meld... they would need to be destroyed.
