OT: Alien Contact

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Wardad:
Aloofi,
Why would they go to all that trouble?
They could get us to enslave each other, and then we could mine it for them.
Of couse this approach requires some finesse and control of local resources.

Nah, they don't have use for us as slaves because we can't possible undestand their tech (If they can warp....) and it will be more reliable to use droids to mine.
Also, their goverment might have laws prohibiting the training of primitive native in their technology.
Advanced industrial tech beats the hell out of slave workforce. Slaves by default have not interest in producing, or in quality. Plus slaves cost money to maintain, otherwise they die out rather quickly.
There is a reason why slavery was abolished in our culture, and believe me, it have nothing to do with human rights.