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"Time for a bit of experimentation!"

UN General Assembly: [sudden feeling of existential dread]

(Re: Spam filter acting on my comment on the previous page: Well, I suppose that if I owned a s-t-i-l-l (short for "destillery"), I would be selling booze to all and sundry ...)

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Ahh, so these Laymarans are another pre-space civilisation that was visited and brought into the fold AFTER the Silurans had been visited. But possibly thanks to lessons learned, there was much more success with the Laymarans.

The Laymarans were also mentioned as being bipedal with hair on their heads like humans, but they haven't made note of any possible shared ancestry. If the Laymarans HAD been space faring and regressed, I wondered if they might have visited Earth and humans could be a lost colony, but it seems unlikely.

The commander certainly appears to like this viewpoint. Probably because it could likely get him out of trouble, but it looks like he's remembering to be cautious. Never-the-less he's had an issue with others dismissing the directives because they haven't studies first contact history like he has. She appears to have studied it and is showing him that by discussing the Laymarans, so he's likely to listen to her opinion but maybe question it so he's certain he's covered.

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You can see a trio of laymarans in the background of page 42, they very much don't have much in common with humans.

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Awesome. If I'm seeing things right then they're not bipedal which means Ahshu was only comparing the hair on their head.

I also noticed, looking back a couple of pages, that Zane's last comment here is possibly him remembering that Shuru is simply giving her opinion. So her analysis doesn't necessarily cover him if he breaks the First Contact directives. The Laymarans had a technicality humans don't.

It's obvious though that while the directives must have a delineation of how advanced a race must be, they likely expected races to be obviously close or far from that line rather than on the very brink like humans.

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Resilient is perhaps a more fitting word than durable? It's recovering swiftly on their own versus optional outside intervention to repair a small percentage of permanent damage(or a scar to carry indefinitely). Is it a cultural difference in their history?

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Yeah, that would indeed be a better word, though I was keeping the "delicate glass" analogy in mind when I wrote that.






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