Not that they showed up at the start of the cold war - we entered a treaty with them at the beginning of the cold war. That makes much sense.
Disclaimer - I don't state these things with any true knowledge, just regurgitating what I've heard from Eisenhower's granddaughter. No clue if valid or not.
Assuming this happened - the 'why' for us to enter into the treaty (ie surrender) would have been for superior technology against the Ruskies. As for why the aliens are here - my guess is they've always been around and we just reached a technological stage where began taking down their UFO's. Don't laugh about our primitive weaponry vs theirs. I'll send you down to the Amazon with a rifle and I bet the natives with their blow guns will still take you out - they've got the numbers. That's probably what it's like for aliens coming here (if they do, not sure). What they want here, well the possibilities are endless. If I had to make my best guess, it's not 'resources' because as you said, in a warp capable civilization there really shouldn't be any major resource constraints - anything you want is 6 seconds away. My best guess would be it's more spiritual. They also likely had an adam and eve, and are completely fascinated that we had them also. They had Jesus visit, so did we. What happened on earth when he visited? Probably really fascinating stuff for them.
"we entered a treaty with them at the beginning of the cold war. That makes much sense."
Do you make treaties with lemurs? Why not? Does a lemur have anything that you desperately need, or can't just make on your own much more easily than flying across the galaxy to get it? What does this planet have that no other does? A developing civilization's culture? ...they can grab that off Piratebay from a satellite disguised as an asteroid without worrying about violating any "prime directive". Have sex with us? Why, why they can make their own anatomically-correct West World-style machines to satisfy their every need?
"Disclaimer - I don't state these things with any true knowledge, just regurgitating what I've heard from Eisenhower's granddaughter."
Eisenhower's granddaughter is a Cabal critterkid selling horseshit to rubes.
Not that they showed up at the start of the cold war - we entered a treaty with them at the beginning of the cold war. That makes much sense.
Disclaimer - I don't state these things with any true knowledge, just regurgitating what I've heard from Eisenhower's granddaughter. No clue if valid or not.
Assuming this happened - the 'why' for us to enter into the treaty (ie surrender) would have been for superior technology against the Ruskies. As for why the aliens are here - my guess is they've always been around and we just reached a technological stage where began taking down their UFO's. Don't laugh about our primitive weaponry vs theirs. I'll send you down to the Amazon with a rifle and I bet the natives with their blow guns will still take you out - they've got the numbers. That's probably what it's like for aliens coming here (if they do, not sure). What they want here, well the possibilities are endless. If I had to make my best guess, it's not 'resources' because as you said, in a warp capable civilization there really shouldn't be any major resource constraints - anything you want is 6 seconds away. My best guess would be it's more spiritual. They also likely had an adam and eve, and are completely fascinated that we had them also. They had Jesus visit, so did we. What happened on earth when he visited? Probably really fascinating stuff for them.
"we entered a treaty with them at the beginning of the cold war. That makes much sense."
Do you make treaties with lemurs? Why not? Does a lemur have anything that you desperately need, or can't just make on your own much more easily than flying across the galaxy to get it? What does this planet have that no other does? A developing civilization's culture? ...they can grab that off Piratebay from a satellite disguised as an asteroid without worrying about violating any "prime directive". Have sex with us? Why, why they can make their own anatomically-correct West World-style machines to satisfy their every need?
"Disclaimer - I don't state these things with any true knowledge, just regurgitating what I've heard from Eisenhower's granddaughter."
Eisenhower's granddaughter is a Cabal critterkid selling horseshit to rubes.