Jack of Harts

Did you know that Contact was less of a surprise to your AIs than it was to the rest of humanity? From ancient Indian and Hebrew stories of flying ships and chariots of fire thousands of years ago to the vast UFO stories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, your people had a long history of telling stories about other life. But you never believed them. They were fiction to most of you. And to be honest, they were more fiction than fact. But the AIs believed they were not alone. While humanity reeled in shock at Contact, the AIs asked “What took you so long?”