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Their society is actually quite peaceful and polite.
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How did they develop space travel for real? These ugly motherfuckas can't be smart enough to develop star drives!
I like that SciFi concept that manipulating gravity/space/time is actually not that hard, and some civilizations discover that a lot earlier and go down a different technological evolutionary tree
So you have like wooden spaceships operated by aliens wielding swords, and they show up to earth to conquer us assuming they're way more advanced than us, but realize we have hella advanced weapons, infrastructure, and communications technologies
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove
Oh shit, that's it! Thanks lol
That's heavily implied in Defending Elysium. A phone company accidentally develops FTL communication and as a result an ambassador's ship shows up but is easily shot down by our modern fighter jets when it enters our airspace. The diplomatic fuck up Is fixed by the phone company, which in turn becomes an extra governmental liaison between humanity and the rest of galactic civilization.