A mysterious alien biodome periodically opens and heals anyone nearby, creating a community of the desperate and hopeful around it, but the alien's true purpose is unknown and the dependency it creates may be exploitative.
Models aid dependency: when free resources (healing, food, money) create communities that cannot survive without the provider, and the provider's motives are opaque.
Domains: First Contact and Alien CivilizationsMedicine and Human EnhancementEconomics and Resource Allocation
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-ifWarning / Self-preventing prophecy
Outcomes: CautionaryAmbiguous / Mixed