[ WP ] Aliens receive a message from humanity . It 's three words , repeated continously . `` Are we alone ? ''

`` Are we alone?'' 
 
 The words echoed in my mind as I watched the rocket take off, shooting up with a trail of green fire. Over 10 years of hard work and exhaustive research had led to this moment, to the advancement of the Kal'dek into aether. It was those three, simple words, interrupting a radio conversation between the king and one of his lords, that turned the aether from a night sky into a whole unexplored world, and only now had we entered the fringes of it. On his orders, nearly half the scientists in the country were put to work on exploring the aether. We were to invent ways to not only travel through the aether, but to find the Not-Kal'dek within and contact them. Progress was slow, but now, with the rocket no more than a green dot in the sky, we had hope. We would find the Not-Kal'dek, and we would give them a message. 
 
 They are not alone.
