While true, I'd err on the side of caution for this particular one. [Alucard takes another sip from his cup, then places it down on the saucer gently.]

Excuse you, I was trying to help. [But he'll take the point, even if it means looking grumpy and annoyed for only a moment more.]

Curiosity, I'd imagine. If they're as isolated as we understand them to be, the news of us would have gotten there late indeed. Then they'd have to consider, and negotiate with each other to make any of this happen. And...now we're here. Carefully making sense of the other and engaging in tentative economic ties.

This makes our past conversations about portals a bit easier too, you realize.