Rhaedas

I don’t know that answer, but I do know that Vulcan prehistory was probably worse than Earth’s. The difference is that Vulcans came to realize how dangerous their emotions were and learned how to suppress them to survive. What may scare them is that humans managed to stay emotional and survive. How? It’s not logical.

Great book. Still love the opening to the one chapter. “God was knocking on the door, and he wanted in real bad.”

I always saw it as other species being a bit frightened about humans and their potential. Just like in D&D - the first take is that the human is the generic baseline and all the other races are cooler because they have different special abilities. Then you realize that being generic means you can go any direction and still have the other abilities, just not top level. Humans are OP because they are so versatile. Add in emotions and irrational behavior, and other species would rather just be on good terms with us, even if they find us distasteful. Don’t poke the humans.

“They irradiated their own planet?”