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Aliens, should we ever meet any, are probably more like us than different. And that's a sad and scary thought.
Probing Intellect Kills an Anomaly
The minor Council for Galactic Anomalies was meeting in stormy plenary session. The Honorable Leader of the Igon delegation stood.
Probing Intellect spoke angrily into the translator, head feather's erect and vibrating.
"It's impossible that my noble ancestors could have caused this Anomaly. I do concede that the crew were Igons. But," and Probing Intellect glared, shaking his massive fighting claw while stamping one foot, "The ship was of Roontz manufacture, hauling freight, hazardous freight I might add, for the Rilkon Federation.
"The questions we must address now, before arbitrarily assigning blame for this Anomaly, is did the ship malfunction? Did the hazardous cargo erupt? Was it crew error? Should this council even concern itself with the fate of such a distant, insignificant species? The proposed mission will be a stupendous, expensive folly."
Probing Intellect preened, though the effect was lost on the non-avian races.
The Council's chairman, a dark, gnarled and tentacled creature named Bott, growled it's judgment.
"This Anomaly has affected an entire star system. The fourth planet is dead, barren. The second planet is a miasmic swamp. Three races on the third planet exhibit symptoms of evolutionary skewing. One race of large reptiles is extinct, another race, an aquatic mammal, has mutated away from an opposed hand and thumb. And yet a third race has suffered hemispheric brain damage, evolving into a predacious, technologically advanced, ferocious culture. In time this third race could threaten the All. This council concedes that Igon may not be completely responsible for the Anomaly, but all loss claims were paid to Igon interests, indicating that the profits of the voyage would have accrued to Igon. It is the judgment of this council that an expedition, crewed and financed by Igon, be dispatched to study and remove this Anomaly thereby allowing the surviving races to resume their normal evolutionary path."
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