Field issue cover: the official position is still DON'T.
Reality Layer
This is a real manual on the site. Print copies are currently out of stock, but the full digital edition remains available through the MEGAMEAL archive, including the forward, chapter index, and chapter pages.
Print inventory exhausted after a run on emergency-preparedness buyers, doom hobbyists, and people who read the forward once and decided that paper felt safer.
Listing Appendix
The current public reading path is the archive edition at First Contact Index.
Included sections in the live edition:
- The Interstellar Traveler’s Admonition
- Chapter 1: The Indifferent Cosmos and Its Insidious Inhabitants
- Chapter 2: When Alien Ecosystems Try to Wear You as a Hat
- Chapter 3: Helpful Entities and Other Statistical Disasters
- Chapter 4: Hostile First Contact and Why That Is Somehow Simpler
- Chapter 5: Emergency Response When Everything Has Already Gone Wrong
- Afterword
If a second print run appears, it should be assumed that conditions have not improved.