[ WP ] Write about an alien intervention that happened during World War 1 .

We came to Earth, detecting the signs of an upstart industrial civilization. We wanted to meet them, talk to them, learn who they were, guide them towards a prosperous future. We were to help them reach the stars and become good citizens of the galaxy. 
 
 We arrived on Earth during the time they called December 1914. The `` Great War'', they called it. A war to end all wars. Bodies strewn across the green fields. Flies buzzing in the air, the noise unbearable; the sound of automatic gunpowder weapons. 
 
 We peered on the carnage from above. There was a look of fear, hopelessness, or disgust in every man's face. Nobody wanted to be there but what were they fighting for? Their country? There was no way they would put up with this even for their ties to a common blood, to a common nation, to an idea. We did n't expect this at all. Could not these great powers hold their peace? 
 
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 December 24, 1914. 
 
 We activated a speaker we used to make huge announcements to populations we were going to spread our message to, colonize, or invade. A holographic projector was loaded onto the bottom of our spacecraft. It projected a huge scene over Verdun, the Marne, Lille. The Germans heard our voice in German. The French heard our voice in French. The British heard our voices in English. And we showed them war. 
 
 A field of daisies. Quickly destroyed. 
 A glorious king, massacred by revolutionaries. 
 Bodies upon bodies, burning. 
 Trenches in the French soil, filled with rotten corpses. 
 Fire engulfing cities, continents, the planets. 
 The death of their planet. 
 
 Of course it was sensationalized, but it paid off, for the very next day, Germans and Englishmen, French and Austrians, met, traded, laughed, and sung together over the Western Front. We saw brightness in their future 
 
 By the new year, 1915, the commanders had whipped their soldiers into shape. No idealism for them, even though they had seen the future. Now was the only priority. And Germany was to be destroyed. France was to be taken. The death of royalty was to be avenged with the death of millions. 
 
 And we saw that Earth was undeserving of real security and tranquility. Its leaders were too rash, and its people too obedient to the rule of local law instead of true morality. We left and we will only return when Earth is once again deserving of a chance to advance.
