The First Contact Protocol

As the head of a space agency, your team has confirmed a complex, intelligent signal from a star system 50 light-years away. This is definitive proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. Humanity must now decide whether to send a powerful, information-rich broadcast in reply, revealing our existence, location, and nature. Replying could lead to unimaginable knowledge and friendship. It could also alert a potentially hostile civilization to our existence, inviting our destruction. Staying silent ensures safety but means forgoing this historic opportunity.