What If? Aliens contact us with shocking information

Quickdraw101

Beware My Power-Green Lantern's Light
On New Years Day, 2020, a large cigar shaped spacecraft enters our solar system and accelerates towards Earth. After 24 hours, it enters orbit around Earth and proceeds to hijack every TV, radio, and internet signal on the planet to transmit a message to humanity. Whether your TV, laptop, or cell phone was off at the time, it turns on and are met with a captioned and audio translation for them to understand.

They introduce themselves as members of the Galactic Federation and wish to initiate first contact procedures with humanity. However this comes with us needing to know some information, much of which revolves around us and how long they've been watching us.

For the last few million years, they've been watching and protecting the planet, including us and our ancestors. They've taken a special interest in our world because planets like our own very rare(in astronomical terms), an intelligent species is even more rare. This has led to some incidents at various points over the last 50,000 years as a few factions have tried taking over the planet and exterminating humanity. In response, a permanent task force has been stationed in the solar system for the last few thousand years with the job of keeping Earth and it's people safe.

They explain that while things most abductions reported on Earth were made up, a number were real and resulted in the perpetrators being arrested. They also explain that due to various gaps in security measures, a few nations on Earth(America, Britain, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union) have been contacted by outside groups and often received technology in exchange for those groups doing as they please. While many were scientists who simply sought to learn more about humanity, some were sadists who enjoyed torturing primitive species, some were interstellar porn companies, and some were their equivalent of backwoods hillbillies and drunk college kids fucking with the locals. Suffice to say this pissed the Federation off and they greatly increased the security garrison on the outer edges of the solar system.

But that's not all. As well as keeping outside threats at bay, they've also eliminated threats among our own people. One of the main things they accomplished was the disabling of every nuclear weapon on the planet, no matter the country. They reveal that if they had not done so, humanity would've engaged in nuclear war multiple times. They've also kept tabs on every politician, world leader, and anyone with large amounts of money and influence, which in many cases have much of the government in their pockets, for the past 250 years. They inform us that due to said surveillance, they have enough evidence to convict a vast majority of said individuals on crimes ranging from corruption, murder, rape, and starting unjustified conflicts. The P5, all of the Middle East, Africa, and South America have the largest concentration. They proceed to leak this data on every available source on the internet within minutes. This also includes information on various events throughout history, including files from sources such as the CIA, MI6, Mossad, MSS, and FSS.

The last point they also explain is perhaps the most shocking, but also their biggest revelation, is that they've kept constant surveillance on every single human on the planet since the end of the first world war. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Not only have they accomplished this by bugging every single communication and electrical device on the planet, but by the use of microphones embedded in microdrones all over the planet. Ever see a bug in your room that you just couldn't catch and kill? It's a drone meant to watch over you. This means they've cataloged every known criminal on the planet.

Now they aren't petty and don't seek to have someone arrested for jaywalking or someone who stole something from the local grocery store to feed their family. What they focus on are crimes such as murder, rape, torture, armed robbery, assault, terrorism, and government corruption. The first three are punishable by death in the Federation and will not be tolerated. They send a warning to all such criminals on Earth to turn themselves in immediately to local authorities. Any attempt by said individuals to commit more heinous acts will result in them utilizing security forces to apprehend them.

All recording taken by surveillance drones and bugged devices get wiped after 24 hours unless they pertain to any of the aforementioned crimes, which is monitored mostly by advanced AI. Input from biological beings is rare due to the design of said AI. They state that if for whatever reason we ourselves can't clean up our governments, they will arrest them and turn them over to local authorities with all the evidence against them.

They ask for innocent politicians and representatives to fill in the roles of their former leaders. Once negotiations can begin, they'll being in a fleet of ships that will be assigned to fix and upgrade infastructure around the world, provide medical aid, bring advanced fusion power plants for major cities, and begin cleaning our atmosphere of carbon and orbit of trash.

What would the global reaction be? How would you react?
 
Every human who ever had sex or masturbated, was watched doing that. I think the vast majority of the humanity does not think kindly of these aliens.
 
Against such power we’ll just destroy our civilisation fighting them, but I would rather be a barbarian than a slave, even though barbarism will not be particularly kind to me.
 
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They disabled our nuclear weapons to prevent us from wiping ourselves out in a nuclear holocaust.
Every human who ever had sex or masturbated, was watched doing that. I think the vast majority of the humanity does not think kindly of these aliens.
It's not like it was a living being that was observing them. It's a literal AI that does the monitoring.
 
And it will be dismissed as fake news and everyone will ignore their evidence. And so much the better, too, because there’s absolutely no way to prove any of it isn’t a lot of deepfakes. Under that kind of AI reality becomes meaningless and we would all be slaves to it to the hour of our death. There may be passive submission in large parts of the West, but the rest of the world will fight, will find new ways to fight we didn’t even imagine when it started (look at Syria, which upended everything and led to field armies operating successfully against US Air Power), and then will find ways to distribute videos of their fighting with eurobeats soundtracks! After a decade the aliens will have done with our ruined, Afghanistan/Syria planet and go find something else to do.
 
@Quickdraw101 I believe <deleted content> plans on remanufacturing our bomb stockpiles into simple gun type devices which could function with slow matches as the trigger if you got creative enough...,

This scenario is kind of horrible really, since I think at least four billion people will die due to civilisation collapsing before we fight enough to make them leave. Oh-well.
 
And it will be dismissed as fake news and everyone will ignore their evidence. And so much the better, too, because there’s absolutely no way to prove any of it isn’t a lot of deepfakes. Under that kind of AI reality becomes meaningless and we would all be slaves to it to the hour of our death. There may be passive submission in large parts of the West, but the rest of the world will fight, will find new ways to fight we didn’t even imagine when it started (look at Syria, which upended everything and led to field armies operating successfully against US Air Power), and then will find ways to distribute videos of their fighting with eurobeats soundtracks! After a decade the aliens will have done with our ruined, Afghanistan/Syria planet and go find something else to do.
Yes, because in Afghanistan and Syria we had the ability to spy on every single individual, no matter where they resided. They are monitoring everyone and everything we do. They'll hear every word and know where every weapon is. There's no real way to resist when everything you plan in being transferred to an AI. Quite frankly, there is no way to fight back. And if we decide to deal with our criminals, they'll just deal with it themselves.
 
And it will be dismissed as fake news and everyone will ignore their evidence. And so much the better, too, because there’s absolutely no way to prove any of it isn’t a lot of deepfakes. Under that kind of AI reality becomes meaningless and we would all be slaves to it to the hour of our death. There may be passive submission in large parts of the West, but the rest of the world will fight, will find new ways to fight we didn’t even imagine when it started (look at Syria, which upended everything and led to field armies operating successfully against US Air Power), and then will find ways to distribute videos of their fighting with eurobeats soundtracks! After a decade the aliens will have done with our ruined, Afghanistan/Syria planet and go find something else to do.

I agree. We cannot know. With AI we would truly enter a counterfactual age.
 
Yes, because in Afghanistan and Syria we had the ability to spy on every single individual, no matter where they resided. They are monitoring everyone and everything we do. They'll hear every word and know where every weapon is. There's no real way to resist when everything you plan in being transferred to an AI. Quite frankly, there is no way to fight back. And if we decide to deal with our criminals, they'll just deal with it themselves.

How does monitoring let them do anything to stop us? And we certainly did use drones to continuously surveil people for weeks at a time in Yemen and Syria.
 
None of their evidence would be found admissible in American Court systems due to a large set of complexities regarding evidence. And in some jurisdictions, the aliens would be facing criminal charges and civil suits due to recording people without their permission. Given the technological disparity, and the fact they are claiming most of the corruption is (conveniently) within the governments that are most suited to leading the world in opposing them, most people (with the encouragement of the governments) are going to assume the evidence is fabricated and meant to disrupt the world's ability to organize resistance against them.

Oh, with everyone now knowing nuclear weapons have been taken off the table, Asia and Africa erupt into major regional wars, some of which likely escalate to world wars as countries that were once concerned with MAD and kept back from conflict by fear of nuclear war decide to do some land grabs or settle old scores (look especially to China and India/Pakistan to be flash-points). The claim that the aliens doing this somehow stopped nuclear annihilation "multiple times" in the past will be looked at quite askance by American and Russian historians and military, who have been VERY open about the very stages of the Cold War and how close things came, and none of what the aliens are claiming aligns with the known history of the Cold War, which is going to be taken as further evidence that the aliens are not benevolent but rather invaders.

So yeah, nobody in power is going to lose power because of them, none of their evidence from their surveillance would even be admissible to court, and they likely directly caused a major Asian war to break out. Excellent work!
 
Furthermore, we know as a matter of objective fact that gun-type devices will work because nuclear reactors still work, so they weren’t using some kind of exotic fission suppression field. Just need to make the bomb simple enough and we can launch ships to take them on. Now, is it possible they destroy all the works first with orbital bombardment? Sure, but we will try.
 
How does monitoring let them do anything to stop us? And we certainly did use drones to continuously surveil people for weeks at a time in Yemen and Syria.
Aside from continuous monitoring 24/7, they can not only hear everything we say, but track the every move you make. There will be no way to ambush or attack them. Our drones can't be on station 24/7, theirs can. Ours can't fit in a house and remain undetected, theirs can. They have the ability to track our every move, something we can't do.
None of their evidence would be found admissible in American Court systems due to a large set of complexities regarding evidence. And in some jurisdictions, the aliens would be facing criminal charges and civil suits due to recording people without their permission. Given the technological disparity, and the fact they are claiming most of the corruption is (conveniently) within the governments that are most suited to leading the world in opposing them, most people (with the encouragement of the governments) are going to assume the evidence is fabricated and meant to disrupt the world's ability to organize resistance against them.

Oh, with everyone now knowing nuclear weapons have been taken off the table, Asia and Africa erupt into major regional wars, some of which likely escalate to world wars as countries that were once concerned with MAD and kept back from conflict by fear of nuclear war decide to do some land grabs or settle old scores (look especially to China and India/Pakistan to be flash-points). The claim that the aliens doing this somehow stopped nuclear annihilation "multiple times" in the past will be looked at quite askance by American and Russian historians and military, who have been VERY open about the very stages of the Cold War and how close things came, and none of what the aliens are claiming aligns with the known history of the Cold War, which is going to be taken as further evidence that the aliens are not benevolent but rather invaders.

So yeah, nobody in power is going to lose power because of them, none of their evidence from their surveillance would even be admissible to court, and they likely directly caused a major Asian war to break out. Excellent work!
You seriously don't think people won't believe their evidence? One half of the country believes Trump is literal Hitler, another half believes Hillary is a corrupt antichrist who will end the world. Our politicians are in the pockets of lobbyists who get a say in how things run. Trust in the government is very fucking low today, so what makes you think there won't be millions in the United States alone who believe them?

This isn't even touching Putin in Russia, the bullshit with Chechnya, the communist party in China, North Korea, and every nation from Pakistan to Morocco. Mexico and Latin American nations ruled by drug cartels, Islamic fundamentalists running amok in Sub Saharan Africa, South Africa trying to ethnically cleanse the whites and Zulus from the nation, and the genocide in Myanmar.

In regards to points in our history, Cuba in 1962, the 1983 Soviet false alarm, and Able Archer two months later. They release classified American and Soviet documents on how both sides tries launching at one another during those periods, but subsequent found the warheads, rockets, or both not functioning at the time. Both the Federation and superpowers of Earth recognized what would happen if everyone knew nuclear weapons weren't functional. Weapons made explicitly for testing were allowed to remain, but those made for offensive/defensive actions would be targeted for disabling later on. The only nations that realized this were America, Russia, and Britain. Other nations wouldn't know until the Federation told the world.

As for most of said corrupt politicians and criminals not being arrested, then they'll just do it themselves. They've got the means and can do it with exactly zero collateral damage. And quite frankly, those who are poor, sick, and dying aren't going to give two shits about that. Once our criminal elements have been dealt with, they'll be landing ships around the world filled with cures for every disease, fix our crumbling infrastructure, clean our atmosphere, and provide steady sources of power around the globe.

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You act like if we try and build another computer system, that they won't get into it just as easily. AMD quite frankly, it's unwarranted and a complete waste of time in doing so.
 
Anyway, the bottom line is that I would copy the Mad Myllah’s letter to the British for my answer:

"I wish to rule my own country and protect my own religion. If you will, send me a letter saying whether there is to be peace or war. I intend to go from Burao to Berbera I warn you of this - I wish to fight with you. I like war, but you do not. God willing, I will take many rifles from you, but you will get no rifles or ammunition from me. I have no forts, no houses, no country. I have no cultivated fields, no silver, no gold for you to take. I have nothing. If the country were cultivated or contained houses or property, it would be worth your while to fight. The country is all jungle, and that is of no use to you. If you want wood and stone, you can get them in plenty. There are also many ant-heaps. The sun is very hot. All you can get from me is war - nothing else. I have met your men in battle, and have killed them. We are greatly pleased at this. Our men who have fallen in battle have won paradise. God fights for us. We kill, and you kill. We fight by God's order. That is the truth. We ask for God's blessing. God is with me when I write this. If you wish for war, I am happy; and, if you wish for peace, I am content also. But if you wish for peace, go Solvay from my country back to your own. If you wish for war, stay where you are. Hearken to my words. I wish to exchange a machine gun for ammunition. If you do not want it, I will sell it to some one else. bend me a letter saying whether you desire war or peace."
— Sayyid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, circa 1900 a.d.

If their strength was overwhelming, since I wouldn’t be one the first who would fight and be struck down, due to physical realities, I would organise the next phase: Total Gandhian Pacifist Struggle. Khadi, the Salt March, total refusal to buy their food, use their medicine, buy their things, participate in banking, the hunger strike, mass peaceful civil protest on the same scale as the Quit India movement—worldwide.
 
At this point I feel you had an agenda for this scenario, @Quickdraw101 .... Could you just go ahead and tell us what it is?
Alot of conspiracy theories usually say that aliens have been observing humanity for thousands if years and sometimes even involved themselves in our affairs. From ancient astronaut theorists, to USO sightings, Foo fighters in WW2, I figured I could craft a scenario where much of this is true to an extent. They didn't involve themselves directly with ancient humanity, only getting involved around the industrial age when they absolutely had to. My scenario is basically based on the idea that an advanced civilization has watched over us and done it's best to protect us, including the disabling of nuclear weapons to prevent us from destroying our civilization.

The observation part was to keep a close eye on political leadership and those with power, with the added benefit of keeping track of hardcore criminals, such as murderers and rapists. It also confirms how many people believe that most politicians are corrupt and can't be trusted. And with the destruction brought after WW1, they saw the need to keep a close eye on Earth.

They truly want to help us, just they have an entirely different cultural perspective on many things. Privacy rights are different for them. They don't care that an AI is watching them, simply because the AI doesn't care either. It's there to monitor everybody, keep them safe, and catalog serious criminal activity. You still have privacy from neighbors and random people on the street.

That's why their bringing fusion power, advanced medical technology, repair equipment, and cures for every known ailment and disease. That's why they've kept a defense fleet in our solar system to deter hostile forces. They want to help, but the way our world is structured makes that impossible unless we or they fix it first.
 

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