(It’s a doozy)
The nation held its breath, all with opinions about whether the tanks should shoot the ship before the aliens shot first or infected them with something worse than COVID (as they all knew invaders were apt to do, having wiped out most of the native population of the same nation just centuries early) or took our jobs, whatever; or Perhaps they should be trying messages of peace in every fashion they could think of, from the peace symbol to “Ave Maria” to all the languages that had ever been transmitted into space.