steeleyes  Kill  Them All!!!!!                                                                                                                                       Kill them all she shouted in a voice that sounded more like one of those annoying unsolicited robocalls, or auto replies on the phone.  You know the ones, "Press 1, for help with this , 2, for help with that......." on & on.                                                                                 Was it that the people on their home world took AI a bit to far and left unchecked, was it evolution, a world where the dominate life form was silicon based, its primordial soup consisting of some sort of liquid metal?                                                                      Not quite organic, not quite machine, they arrived bearing no gifts or promises.  They were just explorers like us, a bit more advance in the area of space travel then us, but that was all.  It was that dam arrogant insinuation about them reeking of superiority that ticked some off while justified by most.  I mean we were a long way from interstellar space flight.  We had not even had any manned flights past Jupiter yet, and remember they made first contact , not us.  There were some small incidents at first, then them dam xenophos started started gathering in larger and larger groups.  That's when things started going from bad to worst, and after one of them Earth for Earth groups killed one of em, the shit hit the fan.                                                                    Oh yeah!  the one that was killed was their leader and the mate of one mean hombre