[Droid803]

Well, sure, I guess you could just wave it all off and go "It's because the Shivans are retarded, duh!"...
But doing that in itself defeats the purpose of speculating about their motives in the first place.

[Killer Whale]

Who says the shivans know what inter-species communication is? They might never of thought of the idea, it might be against their nature.

Last time I checked they were supposed to be intelligent.
Without understanding what communication is, they never would have gotten anywhere.

I said inter-species communication, not communication within their species

[SPECTRE87]

No. We don't become the next Shivans. We team up with the Shivans, and the Vasudans, and the returned Ancients, and the Vishnans, and the Andarta, and the Nightmares, and the Starborn, and every other race that was ever thought up for an FS campaign, and we take the fight to the "bigger problem" and save the galaxy forever. FIGHT THE POWAH!

Terrans joining up with the Shivans?...  Seriously, no... Shivans = evil xenocidal bastards, fin!

[terran_emperor]

Seconded - No Alliance with the Shivans. Ever! They did somehing to bosch - expermiented on him, killed him... something nasty.

[Snail]

I always thought the Shivans brought Bosch on some kind of enlightening voyage through space, like Journey of the Forgotten...

[General Battuta]

Yeah, I always imagined they showed him all the stuff the player wished s/he could've seen.