Farewell message

When an alien visitor lands his enormous spaceship on a busy Earth airfield, the world has little choice but to accommodate him. V’gu is curious, highly advanced, and unfailingly polite—but his calm observations about Terran customs come with the unmistakable attitude of a scientist studying primitive specimens. In exchange for information and hospitality, he offers astonishing gadgets that make Earth’s technology seem laughably crude.

Now, after years of collecting photographs, souvenirs, and notes on humanity, V’gu is preparing to leave. His farewell speech is broadcast around the globe, and he delivers a chilling judgment: Earth’s wars and quarrels may place it on the same path as countless civilizations that ended in fiery destruction. To V’gu, the evidence is written in the stars, where every mysterious nova represents a world that destroyed itself. As the alien offers humanity one last, superior warning, reporters and onlookers must confront an unsettling question: is this merely an outsider’s arrogance, or does he know something Earth has yet to understand?