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Speaking about the danger of a 'dead' xenosophont civilization, there are a few examples of it in the Encyclopedia Galactica:

Enforcer Objects
"For many thousands of years unexplained shipping losses in interstellar space have occurred on a regular basis, most of them caused by chance collisions with unusually large pieces of interstellar dust. Rumours of attacks by 'ghost ships' and 'foo' were common explanations for these losses, together with some blurred, low resolution images of mysterious objects glimpsed in deep space.

But thanks to advanced shielding technology, in 3455 the Matreiya, a Sophic League vessel survived such an attack, near Gamma Hydrae (where a number of other craft had previously disappeared). The Matreiya reported this event as a deliberate attack by an unknown assailant, an unidentified craft or object located in deep space, almost stationary with respect to the nearest stars, which fired a stream of massive particles towards them. The Matreiya was receding from this object at a very high velocity, but managed to get some clear images of it. The resulting images showed a ragged, half decayed-looking spheroid with numerous flabby protrusions, which was clearly artificial."

The Meerlinda Disaster
"In 3804 Meerlinda was attacked by "gremlins" which systematically eliminated all technology and killed the local ruling transapients... the effect was the exact opposite of the classic "Neutron bomb" in that bionts were left standing while all fell apart around them (of course this killed a lot of biologicals too, in ships and vehicles and hospitals). The planet plunged into the steam age for a while, until an ISO finally arrived from the Negentropy Alliance."

HIE121CZE
"About 31 million years ago species HIE121CZE was apparently a peaceful, slowly-advancing starfaring race setting up colonies on carbon planets. Then there are reports of a sudden change in their society, after the colonization of an unidentified planet which had been occupied by an extinct race. Species HIE121CZE rapidly became highly organized and expansionistic, and apparently attempted to merge organic and technological elements in their bodies. The purpose is unclear; the received accounts mainly emphasize the threat level and the need for extreme measures to exterminate the threat. This resulted in a massive war and the widespread use of advanced weapons of mass destruction."
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Hello OA! - by Jargal - 02-10-2020, 08:28 PM
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