Jack of Harts

For over two centuries, we asked why nobody made Contact with us.  Perhaps we should have been thankful that it did not happen.  Contact between cultures is very dangerous after all, especially when one is far more advanced than the other.  In our own history, countless cultures were exterminated when a new one arrived, whether through conquest or through plagues.  Contact when we did not control our own orbitals could have wiped us out as a culture.