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=== Interlude: Shrunken Heads=== The field tanks resonate with spectral pictures of the alien intruders, captured during that first encounter. If you squinted, you might mistake them for Progenitor younglings--but with diseased, shrunken heads. They look like the entertainment story conjurations of primitive tribal feeders in the dark parts of the homeworld. They look disgusting. Their primitive nature is nowhere so apparent as in their inability to communicate--they can make noise, but they cannot alter it properly. This is bad, because you have no idea how in the Six Manifolds they got here, and you'd desperately like to know. "Tell me your theories," you alter. The steady resonant hum of the room hangs empty for several circulatory pulses. Then, the junior stochastic resonates. "They are a creation of the Manifold," she vibrates hesitantly. There is general scoffing. You try to be more gentle. "No, Canla, this cannot be," you alter. "Their biology is DNA-incompatible. They must be from off-world." There is a general alteration of assent. "But how can a race sophisticated enough to traverse the stars be in such a primitive state?" resonates the general. There is more empty humming. Then Canla, undaunted, speaks again. "Perhaps they suffered a fate similar to ours," she alters. "After all, look at the state we're in." The pain of that is incontrovertible. And somewhere out there is the hated $OTHERALIENS6. You wonder if you can make these offworlders your allies, before the enemy does. Your first task, then, is to learn how their minds work so you can communicate with them. You wonder how difficult it could be to think like an alien.
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