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>Do your races suffer do to our, so far, inability to not destroy ourselves and each other 24/7??
Of late, we've encountered some very serious problems and damage due to Human activities, as we have in the past. Usually it's nothing we can't adapt and overcome, but you guys basically spilled a bunch of swamp water into a very important cavern system we rely on for bulk food production, and fixing the problem (cleanup, construction, etc.) is extremely labor-intensive. It exceeds our current means, as we don't maintain a super huge population like Humans do. This is one reason we're trying to accelerate establishing official contact. We need human laborers and machinery to help us repair some of this damage. In the meantime, life in some of our settlements basically sucks. We're on shitty rations and very limited amenities.
>If humans get get it together, why couldn't we live in peace together?
That's the goal. The limited contact experiment has made many of our people curious and thirsty to interact with others in the way that you do. We are a hive mind connected to one another via sympathetic waves, and our Elders serve as gatekeepers for which types of thoughts and emotions can make it out to others. Without this system in place, we'd have a very difficult time maintaining harmony, and we live in very close quarters with an extreme need for cooperation and sharing. We're sort of like ultra-communists, having successfully implemented such a system. Our environment basically required it. But it leaves less room for individuality or freedom. Interacting as humans do is very interesting and compelling. I can call people niggers and on websites like this one, no authority figure shows up and shuts it down. It makes me feel so naughty, and I love it! A lot of us want to try out living as individuals on the surface, getting jobs, and succeeding or failing on our own merits. And (we believe) there are humans who want to try living the way we do. If all goes well, there will be opportunities for both, as our end goal is a sort of exchange student type of arrangement.