A Game Theory Approach to Understanding Aliens

If we assume that there's only one other player there, than the rational strategy it should be to attack first. But i was always very dissatisfied with this conclusion. So iv wrot hpaper where i argue tt tat we're wrong er but that's another kin of discussion. I can add that a game theory has, with some success, actually been used in many non human contexts. Weve used to ganfury to understand, e how pathogans emerge and behave and evolve. And also how animal populations interact with each other in complex ecological systems. There seems to be some fundamental aspect of game theory that allows us to predict these systems when dealing with utterly alien life