"English is the language used on most Asgardian forums", It is the most used, but not the only one. As you have suggested, there is a translator. Gracias por la sugerencia de tu materia. Obrigado pelo teu artigo. Nice

The major flaw with the analogy you'd presented is we would be the more advanced civilisation - the evolution. We've already got "their" knowledge, that's where we started from, It should be us with the "new" knowlege to impart. Especially once we really start with heavy research across a wide range of subjects. With regards to "space priates" - within three generations of mass habitaiton existing outside of near Earth orbit then I would predict that there is a real risk of this becoming a real thing. The solution, as I see it, is to take away the excuses for such behaviours, and additionally ensure lack of success on attempts. When it comes to invading a floating platform, mutally assured destruction is incredibly simple to achieve - You can make sure no matter what, they are not getting it and anyone who tried dies. Such being the default reaction to loss of facility integrity should serve to discourage most from the attempt. Then consider the amount of "troops" a transport could feasibly bring in one haul, who would then be concentrated in a easily counterable point at the airlock(assuming we allowed them to pressurise it, and didn't just keep venting attempts to into space, or over pressurise it so when they open their airlock it either pops their ship off, or the pressure change screws up the biologicals). To actually curb the initial intention then give them whatever they want. Ask and it will be given, attempt to take and your life is forfeit. Don't even need to ask, just indicate you'd like it. To realistically consider the long term inhabitation of space, and to be able to attribute the resources to be able to sensibly do so, our space-based mining and production facilities would be feasibly capable of this provision at no particular detriment to ourselves, by virtue of using methods of exponential resource aquisition we should have far more than we can realistically use. By sharing our toys it makes it a lot harder to steal them, and easier to maintain peace and order long term. Such sharing - of knowledge, resources and materials - would form the foundations of this bridge of which you speak. It's hard to hate someone constantly giving you things you want/need and asking for nothing in return. Building amicable relations on top of that surely must not be difficult. Realistically one would question why they would be allowed close enough to represent a viable threat - there's multiple non-lethal methods to prevent proximity, and if we're feeling less civilised the lethal methods available to prevent are also numerous. And there should be a lot of reaction time. Definitely if this vessel has been lifted from the floor, they'll be that worried about reducing weight there's unlikley to be any armour. A few burning lasers focused on fuel tanks would cause a RUD I'd wager, taking out their thermal dissipation systems - which need to be exposed to space - would cause them to shut down or cook themselves... between there and here we can slide something in their way to cause a collision... Systems used to intercept inbound warheads can be turned on inbound vessels... The ways you can achieve such means taken with the inability to defend against and the incredibly fragile transports suggests you're going to be require to be significantly retarded to board that transport for the attempt, and the cost of the attempt taken with it's assured failure should serve to prevent the initial order to board the transport.

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