Backward Matt
UNEN Alucia, Auroux Class
“The Alucia is a research ship chartered [by the United Nations of Earth Navy] for an archaeological expedition to what appear to be [alien] ruins found by a forager probe. Which is of course a big deal. So big a deal [the powers that be] really wanted to send a team [immediately], regardless of it ignoring the ten years of safety pre-screening for long term human habitation on planets with alien life. Carter, the planetary protection officer aboard, is all too aware of this."
-John Moffatt, December 2019, in a private chat with me.
Why would the UNE ignore the otherwise mandatory pre-screening?
Why would they send a xenoarcheaology team in a military grade ship?
Does this have anything to do with Earth's war with the Arkanin, an alien race of hot-air-blowing, oversized crustaceans?
As the UNE becomes more embroiled in an interplanetary war, the orders of their governing body only becomes more mysterious.
UNEN Alucia, Auroux Class
“The Alucia is a research ship chartered [by the United Nations of Earth Navy] for an archaeological expedition to what appear to be [alien] ruins found by a forager probe. Which is of course a big deal. So big a deal [the powers that be] really wanted to send a team [immediately], regardless of it ignoring the ten years of safety pre-screening for long term human habitation on planets with alien life. Carter, the planetary protection officer aboard, is all too aware of this."
-John Moffatt, December 2019, in a private chat with me.
Why would the UNE ignore the otherwise mandatory pre-screening?
Why would they send a xenoarcheaology team in a military grade ship?
Does this have anything to do with Earth's war with the Arkanin, an alien race of hot-air-blowing, oversized crustaceans?
As the UNE becomes more embroiled in an interplanetary war, the orders of their governing body only becomes more mysterious.