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That's roughly the premise of several sci-fi short stories and novels I read (and of which I can't name at least one after having read several hundreds of those).
It's sort of done in The Three-Body Problem.
It's definitely done in the books. The show is like 80% of the way there currently
It's also done in the show.
Did they have the big Dark Forest speech? It's been so long since I've seen the end of the show that I honestly don't remember. I know the speech happens in the second book
Yes
They changed it a bit in the show but it's basically still there.
The heechee saga.
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