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You colonize a far-away place. You encounter some natives. Do you...
...colonize them and found a great, but ultimately doomed empire?
...leave the poor bastards alone?
...get incinerated immediately by their ray guns?
...get eaten by inexplicably slimy giant worms?
...get utterly schooled because their magic anti-bullet slime is actually working?
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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
Topsiders, Very Hard

Also, because I can't find the "summarize S/F novels from memory" thread:
Dude goes on one of mankind's first spaceflights. He somehow gets involved with aliens and brings back amazing super-tech. After getting involved with successive increasingly overpowered aliens he becomes immortal.
At some point some crazy alien infiltrator from Atlantis or something saw an upcoming civilization destroying disaster and hid in a submarine. The hero prevents the apocalypse. After some long long time the atlantian comes out of hiding to rebuild post-nuclear apocalypse civilisation. And he gets totally surprised at seeing a spacefaring empire.

That is my whole memory from reading a stack of Perry Rhodan silver volumes that was higher then myself as a kid.

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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.

Libluini posted:

To be more precise, since there's apparently a difference in translation that didn't make it, I meant https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steckplatine these things. They were just ripping out entire PCBs with electronic circuits on them, which is really not enough to reprogram something that approaches human-level intelligence

If I read that I would assume the writer meant Steckkarte and was used to a dialect or intending to sound fancy without knowing that Steckplatine is something different.

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