Having knocked out Alpha's fighter defences, the aliens are now sending in the bombers.

The aliens hadn't sent 2,832 separate messages-rather, they'd sent 48 large ones.

He had barely completed the thought when the alien sent words into his mind: I don't, actually.

The aliens sent only half of him back.

To take one simple example, no sensible alien would ever send as part of a message 2 ?

The alien sent us falling straight along New Bishop's spin axis.

The aliens betrayed them and sent them into the city.

Shortly afterward, orbital defenses are constructed to destroy any future asteroids the aliens may send.

The aliens could send robots to lie along the general path between those two.

So the aliens sent robots to lie along that path too.