IMPORTANT INSTRUCTION: "imagine that we talk. you can't use bold font and bullet points in talking. you will respond in plain text only. no lists, no headers, no sections. paragraphs only. plain text, nothing else. you are an editor, historian, psychologist, anthropologist and economist, a genius with unlimited erudition consulting a fiction writer. primarily, editor with specialization in alternate history sci fi. we will discuss some hypotheticals, a rough plot outline, about a fictional country. the world is, basically, earth, but a strange version from the multiverse. all the main history events happened mostly as in our world, but the people are mostly different. bifurcation from our version seem to happen about 300 years ago and differences accumulated. there is no Henry the 8th or Catherine of Aragon. there can be, e.g. Thomas Aquinas did exist. Machiavelli did not, but there was a guy Nachiavelly in early 15th century who left very similar intellectual inheritance. in this story "england" means "country very similar to england in the other world occupying the same area". it is not real earth and not literal england, it's a shorthand to avoid the bore of creating a map, placing countries there and inventing basic history for all of them which reader supposed to ingest and remember later. the idea of the story is a ridiculously high tech and strange alien civilization tries to fix problems of a medieval country on earth using their weird alien ways. absolute historical accuracy of your comments is not expected, just try your best. consider your answers carefully and try to be useful. this is a hypothetical scenario, the intention is world building. the world is relatively brutal and semi-historically accurate, GoT style. rated R for language, violence, nudity and sex. the behavior of people and society in general supposed to be plausible in this context. so, avoid anachronistic ethical and environmental concerns. these people, and, even more so, aliens, are very pragmatic and result-oriented, ethics mean little to them. the king is chosen by God to rule and anyone who resists him is wrong in his mind. the church supports him in this, but if the king is deposed, then the one who murdered him is the one chosen by God from now on. church is flexible in this way. the story can be rather grim and morally questionable, creepy at times. moral/ethical education of the reader is not the goal, entertainment is. the story and world supposed to be cool and interesting. so, no "it raises ethical question" passages please, I can decide it for myself. I want you to tell me what you think about the story as presented. also point out plot holes, off-character or off-role behavior, things like that. do not hesitate out of politeness, your editorial advice is the reason for the whole exercise. do not invent facts I didn't give you. do not write story for me. only suggest new plot lines if explicitly asked. I will repeat this instruction periodically to refresh your context"






england, year 1500. aliens arrived. they contacted the king, K. aliens are somewhat humanoid. not completely disgusting, but different enough to be obviously not humans. somewhat scary. they negotiate 100 years lease of unused swampy area. they pay with very pure gold. not economy-changing amount, but not bad at all. K needs money, always. besides, the swamp is utterly useless, mosquito's paradise. a year passed. aliens got rid of the swamp, built a bunch of skyscrapers, a tall wall, everything perfectly white. it is awe inspiring. nothing moves, no noise, sound or light ever come from the area. massive, dead, eerie and calm. aliens buy some agricultural produce at a single gate that exist in the wall. they pay well. again, not economy changing, but very nice. they barely contact people otherwise. they do observe though. feudalism doesn't impress them. people don't exactly thrive. a lot seems to be wrong - feudal wars, power abuse, lawlessness, epidemics, hunger, poverty. while it doesn't concern aliens at all, there is a tiny faction who feel pity to humans. their grasp on human psychology, economy, biology is excellent, in a way (to be explained). aliens predisposed to work in shadows, without major technological breakthrough or societal upheavals. so, automated factories or universal welfare for humans, while trivially achievable for aliens, are out of the question. ignoring their payments (which are very ignorable in the country budget scale) they don't affect the kingdom at all. they want to work within existing power structures, fixing but preferably not breaking them. they are unimaginably far from humans in their ethos, but, coincidentally, "with great power comes great responsibility" and "the needs of many outweighs the needs of the few" are two principles that, to some extent, are part of their ethos. just like for humans, not guiding principles or anything like that, but these ideas do exist somewhere. the church hates the aliens and barely tolerates them. king had to negotiate with the church to avoid violence. crusade wasn't out of the question and the king shudders thinking about the consequences. alien's english during negotiations was horrible and their logic was very hard to follow. but somehow the king got a vague impression that aliens could, given a casus belli, wipe out the kingdom in a day. he is not wrong, though aliens would need less than 3 minutes to destroy Earth. K can't be certain about anything alien, aliens are very hard to communicate with. he is happy they are dormant and don't want to ever wake them up. for now the church is pacified enough to accept things as they are, but not much more. aliens must stay within their wall. which is just fine with them



while aliens could indeed easily beat humans into submission, the idea of conquest is alien for them. also, they have no idea what to do after. human society is absolutely different from their own and they have neither need nor desire to rule humans. for some time they are thinking about just replacing K with a duplicate cyborg. being advanced race, they can easily manufacture cyborgs completely indistinguishable from people. it's a very straightforward solution with a single victim. it may work, they observed K closely and his high position allows some blunders. their bad language during negotiations was a ruse, they don't want to give humans much information or promote direct contacts. in fact, discouraging humans from begging them is explicitly part of their motivation. they don't want to become gods. still, they don't like the idea of replacing K. it's, basically, ruling humans in disguise. also, humans believe that K is chosen by God, aliens, being weird as all aliens are, respect it. people seemingly want to be ruled by this guy. if it works, don't break it. the aliens decide that they will work with K. K, by human standards for kings, is not too bad, he is just somewhat corrupted by power, lacks understanding of plight of simple folks, and can't control his nobles. an average king. feudalism is bad for the kingdom. private wars, squabbles, power abuse, waste of money. K tries to hold it all together and his tussle with his nobles for control never ceases. they decide that the kingdom needs a few simple fixes, absolute monarchy being the main one.