For most of that time, you weren't so different from apes.

How long did it take you to discover agriculture?

Why don't you cut the shit and tell us?

It took you 90,000 years to get from hunter-gatherer to farmer.

After that, how long did it take you to become industrialists?

About 10,000 years.

Atomic power?

200 years.

Computers, the information age?

50 years.

And how long do you think it took us to get from hunting to farming, and farming to industry, and industry to atomic power?

A lot longer.

Our planet is stable.

Our catastrophes aren't really catastrophes we've never had to start over.

But they do, every time they get wiped out.

It will be 400 years before we reach you.

By the time we do, you will have long surpassed us.

You will destroy our fleet, and then come back and destroy our world, to make sure we never threaten you again.

This is not a conquest.

It is a funeral procession.

Unless you figure out a way to disarm us.

To keep us from moving forward.

Have you?

Yes.

We are going to kill your science.

We will do it with our SOFONs.

What is a SOFON?

It's a proton.

One we have turned into a sentient computer.

You can't make a computer that small.

It's impossible.

Impossible for you.

The universe has more dimensions than the three we occupy.

They are hidden.

Folded up far too small for us to see.

But we have the technology to unfold them.

We summon energies you cannot imagine, and focus them on a single proton.

When we unfold its higher dimensions, even a tiny proton becomes something very large indeed.

SOFON

We make a mind as large as a world.

SOFON

SOFON, are you awake?

Awake and aware.

I understand my purpose.

I am ready to return to my original size.

Please proceed.

SOFON

We used all our resources to make four SOFONs.

Two pairs of two.

Each pair is entangled.

Connected on the quantum level.

Two remain with us.

The other two we've sent to you.

Everything they see and hear, we see and hear at the same time.

Even when they are light years apart.

A proton has virtually no mass.

Accelerating them to nearly light speed is easy.

Even you can do that.

They entered your solar system months ago.

We sent them to your planet.

To the places where your best minds explore reality at its most fundamental level.

And we will destroy the science that could defeat us.