That's correct, our collective radio signals from our day to day comms, as well as our later attempts to directly hail them were a meaningless clutter that sapped useful time and energy attempting to decipher them, so in essence, the communication itself was a form of attack. They set up a Chinese room to stave off potential attempts to establish direct contact and carried on. I think firefall was just the Crown's attempt to figure out where the hell these attacks (telecommunications) were coming from and beam back the data.
There's a scifi trilogy called Conquerers that is about a first contact conflict that starts because the human ship sends out a radio buoy that causes the lizard people and their ghost ancestors physical pain that they decide is a preemptive attack.
That's correct, our collective radio signals from our day to day comms, as well as our later attempts to directly hail them were a meaningless clutter that sapped useful time and energy attempting to decipher them, so in essence, the communication itself was a form of attack. They set up a Chinese room to stave off potential attempts to establish direct contact and carried on. I think firefall was just the Crown's attempt to figure out where the hell these attacks (telecommunications) were coming from and beam back the data.
There's a scifi trilogy called Conquerers that is about a first contact conflict that starts because the human ship sends out a radio buoy that causes the lizard people and their ghost ancestors physical pain that they decide is a preemptive attack.