@jay055907: Follow — the sender of the invitation has not been identified. Sixty years ago, we broadcast a message into deep space. Coordinates. A greeting. An open door. We assumed whoever read it would arrive in a ship. It didn’t bring a ship. It didn’t need one. It crossed the distance the way we cross a room — and when it stepped onto the sand, the impact registered on seismographs three continents away. One envoy was sent to meet it. Standard first-contact protocol: unarmed, alone, transmitting on all frequencies. He stood before it for eleven minutes. Then his suit relayed a single sentence back to command: “It says the invitation wasn’t meant for us to send. It was meant for us to receive.” We invited something to Earth. We just weren’t the ones holding the pen. Transmission ends.