# First Contact

Prepare two unlike intelligences for contact without collapsing difference into threat or salvation.

## Positions

1. **The Other:** What form of intelligence may be approaching?
   - Eligible classes: beings, hypotheses
2. **What You Project:** What expectation could distort the encounter?
   - Eligible classes: forces, myths, states
3. **What They Actually Bring:** What capability, need, or difference arrives with them?
   - Eligible classes: artifacts, technologies, forces
4. **The Boundary:** What must remain protected, consensual, or untranslated?
   - Eligible classes: systems, worlds, forces
5. **The Exchange:** What can be offered without coercion or assimilation?
   - Eligible classes: artifacts, technologies, programs
6. **The New World:** What shared reality is created if contact becomes reciprocal?
   - Eligible classes: worlds, events, cosmologies

## Reading Contract

Read Gift, Shadow, and Threshold; expose the evidence state; show only graph relationships that actually exist; end with guidance, integration, and a question. Use a seed for repeatability.
