DEAN
What happen? Are there any rescue efforts being made?
CAPTAIN
No efforts are being made because there inhabitants are all dead.
The display changes again. A very large group of the primitive aliens are huddled in a village that is made up of hides and bones on the edge of an arctic coast.
DEAN
What about those?
CAPTAIN
Who?
The Captain turns back to the display.
There a lot of the aliens, all watching the skies and waves of the frigid ocean.
CAPTAIN (CONT’D)
Turn off that display, Ionas.
DEAN
We have to rescue them!
CAPTAIN
Conservationist Deanionionasad, we have already taken on the 87 humans. We cannot rescue any others. Not this time. Besides, these aliens are too primitive to provide anything meaningful to the galaxy. Science officer, retrieve the probes.
DEAN
Wait. Pull up that last probe display.
Ionas, the epitome of what a nerd would look like as an alien, looks over at the Captain.
CAPTAIN
Do it.
The main display shows the arctic village. It is destroyed. There is no sign of the villagers.
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