I wouldn’t send any fleet. How to put this: okay, first we woke up the Swarm.

Let me guess: curiosity got the better of you and you wanted to meet your neighbors, only to find out that your neighbors wanted to eat you.

Not exactly… We woke up the Swarm and then… uh… we made it more docile.

More docile? How?

As it turns out, a common chemical used to treat our clothing is similar to a pheromone that makes the hive queens really like us.

Go on.

Well, during first contact the hive we encountered didn’t actually understand that we weren’t actually one of their own species. The hive accepted us in, and there was no fighting. Due to the pheromones the hive trusted us, and we made sure that they wouldn’t have a reason for them not too.

(In progress)