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=== Interlude: Ancient Ones=== The council might as well be dipped in a vat of flaming vegetable matter-- the resonations of fear are as intense. You try to remain calm, to show a cool leadership you do not feel. Somehow, from somewhere, offworlders are occupying the precious Manifold! "The key is continued communication," you alter. "Their ability to make wave-forms in the atmosphere is useful, but their understanding of the alteration process is key. If they can be reasoned with, they can be made ally. If they can be made ally, they can aid us against our enemy." The general nods, and resonates an aura of confidence for the first time. "True," he alters. "But I fear; though they look like ancient, feeble members of our race, they are totally alien. What if their cause and our cause do not coincide?" "Then we must find out their cause," you alter, "and appeal to it. Become what they want us to become. All the while, we must continue to further our own aims." The xenobiologist--the closest thing you've got to a xenopsychologist--flutters his mandibles. "But they claim they are here as colonists! Our aims do not and cannot coincide with this! Sooner or later, we must destroy them in order to $EXPLOITORPRISTINE7!" You alter the biologist's words with smooth calm. "I hope that this can come later--far later. We must use them first if we can...and if we cannot, then we must destroy them swiftly, and without mercy." The alterations to [that] are [very] positive.
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