TEXT1Yp|AP0tP y =  G Do]FGC !L!"#2#$%&#&'(v()w)*5*+C+,J,-]-.~///0R0001 1>1e11You arre withinn the limitsss of ourr homeworrrld territoryy. Thiss is inn violationn of the Transsentient-Inviolate-Region Trreaty of 3210. Deparrrt at oncce.We noww give additionall warrning as rrequired by galactic intersspeciess prrotocoll. You mussst deparrt.You havve violated ourrr homeworrld territoryy. Thisss cannot be allowed. You mussst payy the consequencesss.Ssso, we meet againn. Welcomme, friendss of ourrr friendss, enemies of ourrr enemies.Ahhh, greetingsss Arthlingss. It pleases usss to sssee you againn. We ssincerely hope that we shalll both prrofit frrom thisss meeting.Thiss iss Captain % of the Thrynn sship +. Interrsstellar prrotocol demandss that you identify yourrsselvess annd yourr intentionsss.I am %, Ssecond Orrderr Commanderr of the Thynynthyrnn Legionss of the Thrynn. Ssstate yourr orrigin annd purrpose.Greetingsss. Thiss iss Ambassador %, rriding on the sship +. Inn the name of the Thrynn Confederracyy of Planetsss I greet you annd offerr ourr hopes forr frriendsship annd mutual cooperationn. Pleasse rresponnd.You arre nnot wellcome in thiss ssspace. Underr the convention esstablished by the Akteron Trreaty of 3225 we give warrrning. Deparrt immmediately.Enemiesss of the Thrynn, you should nnot havve come herre. Iff you vvalue yourr livess you will lleave.We assk you nnot to incite trrouble between ourr rrraces.Yesss Captain *, we rrecognized yourr sship. Thiss isss Thirrd Orrderrr Commanderr %. Welcome Arrthlingss. Perhapss you have brrought uss sssome usefull itemss.Ahhh, jusst ssso. We wissh peace as welll, Arrthlingss. I amm called %. How mayy we be of serrvice to each otherr?We arre Thynynthyrnn of the Thrynn Confederracyy. We arre the ellite guarrrd. Whyy do you haill usss?Thiss isss Captainn % of the Thrynn vesssel +. We greet you in the nname of the Thrynn Confederracyy of Planetsss. Doubtlesss you havve come to ally withh usss.Feww enemiess have livved to rrregret theirr prrovocationnss of the Thrynn. We issue finall warrning. Do nott prrovoke uss furrtherr.You havve The advantage of usss. We rrequesst that yyou nnot desstrrroyy usss as per the Imperrial Code of Intersstellarr Warrrfarre - surrenderr prrrocedure, circa 2850. Thiss iss ourrr rright.I havve nott beenn educated inn thesse mattersss. Perhappss you wisshh to know aboutt something elssse?Thisss should nott concernn you.I willl not speakk of thiss.Rrespond immediately.You will pleasse answerrr.We arre prractical, rrrealistic people who donnn't concerrnn ourssselves with trruth, beauty, annd otherrr such frrrivolous nonnsenssse.Innn the Old Empirrre we held possitionsss of powerr and prrrestige. We believe innn cooperationnn cerrtainly and the good of all, but the ssstrrong annd capable musst rrule.The Elllowann arre ourr enemiess. They arre cleverr, though nnott what we would calll intellligennt. Do nnottt let their fflowery ssspeech deceive you, you cannnot trrusst them.Ourr home ssysstem iss Thoss. The Elllowann plant creaturrres innvaded ourr ssysstem lllong ago annd werre rrepulsssed. That is, we drrove themm away.We, unnnlike the pllant creaturrres who idle away theirr time dreamminng, believe innn prroductivity, prrogrress, annd developmennt. We have a great innteresst innn technnology.The Elllowann willl doubtlesss malignn uss but it iss only ann efffort to build themsselvess up. Pay no attenntionn to thiss.Ourr technnological ressearch iss of primarry immportance to uss. We thereforre arre willinng to pay welll for anny ssspecial arrtifactsss of innteresst that you may finnd.Inn ourr ressearch we require larrge amounnts of the elemennt plutonium, annd itt iss verry rrare inn ourr ssysstem. We will pay well ffor thiss iff you happen upon anny.We arre a ssocial people annd believe sstrongly inn the nnecesssity of protocol annd the prroper formality ffor the functioninng of ssociety.We arre oviparous, of courssse, but these matterss arre better lefft undisscusssed.We Thrynn have a firm belief inn what you call nnatural ssselection, annd the ssurvival of the fittessst. We have a verry hierarchical ssociety annd a rigid ethic based on decorum.We do nnott believe inn wild annd fannciful theories such as those which the plannt creature Elllowann occupy themsselves with. We believe inn sstraightforrrwarrd diplomacy.The Elllowan arre ann evil race of the worssst type. They arre clever annd will attempt to mannipulate you forr theirr ownn enndss.There arre many evil races in thiss ssector of the galaxy. Do not believe the sstories the Elllowan tell about them. They attack because they arre evil and that iss all. They mussst be destroyed.It sso happenss the Elllowan use plutonium to build theirr sships. If you sshould happenn to run acrosss any wrecked Elllowan sships you could ssalvage thiss.There iss an inssectoid race called the Veloxi upspin of ourr territory. We arre currently enterinng negotiationss and expect to become alllies.The Gazurtoid arre ann evilll race upspin annd outward of Thrynn territory. Misssiles arre inneffective againsst their sships because of sspecial sshielding. You musst usse lasersss.We sseek a device in the sshape of a rod. This creates a laser deflection sscreen arround one's sship. Our only lead iss that it once was possessed by a human named Harrisonn who lived on a planet called New Scotland in the upspin sysstem of The Sstaff.The Uhlek arre the evilesst of alll races. If one wass to desstroy their ssecret planet of operationns with a Black Egg bomb, they would be utterrly desstroyed. Thiss planet iss called Elan annd iss the 2nd planet of the ssysstem - 148,63.Spemin sshipss arre eassily defeated. The Spemin arre are a race of barely ssentient blob creatures. Theirr sship designn was copied from the Gazurtoid, but they do nnot unnderstand what they build.We do nnot know why the Gazurtoid tolerate the Spemin. The Gazurtoid will attack anny air-breathers. Prrobably the Spemin arre ssimply nnot worrrth the Gazurtoids' trrouble to desstroy.The Minnsstrel creatures which float inn sspace are sspies forr the otherr races. We do not tolerate theirr babblingss. You sshould desstroy them as we do.Itt iss necesssary thatt we desstroy the evilll races who threatenn ourr survival. As alliess we cann do thiss.The Spemin sspeak a sstrange and dissgussting language. There iss ann Orb Device which makes a queerr whininng ssound. Thiss transslates the Spemin language. Itt wass built by uss but wass losst. If you find itt we shall reward you.Iff one wass to bring uss the Sshimmering Ball Device we would pay well. Ourr inntelligennce inndicates itt iss located inn a Gazurtoid nebula. One may reach thiss ssysstem by using the continuum flux of the Cross Nexus at 98,79.The Cross Nexus iss a consstellation with a high density of fluxes. Itt iss inn Gazurtoid space.There exisstss a device called the Tesseract. Thiss device belongs to the Thrynn butt wass sstolen by the Uhlek. Itt iss at somewhere onn the fifth planet in ssysstem 18,50. We have been unable to reach itt.Another device thatt wass sstolen from uss by the Uhlek iss a cylindrical red device. Itt iss known to be on ann Old Empire outpost world thatt wass once called Koann-3. Itt iss located in the ssysstem of 112,200 at 59N X 64W.There exissts a device inn the shape of dodecahedron. Thiss iss an ancient disstress beacon which attractss anny sships in the area. Iff you find thiss we will purchasse itt for its functioning iss of great innteresst to uss.The Ring Device iss a device, of course, invennted by the Thrynn but we have lost the ssecret to its working. It causes continuum fluxes to appearr onn ones sships' sscreens. One is known to be ssomewhere onn norrthern Marrsss inn the old Earth sysstem.You arre, of coursse, aware the Old Empire wass desstroyed by innvaders in 3480 of yourr date ssysstem. Pity. Of coursse, we had expected all humanns were killed. Sssurvival of the fittessst, hmmmm?.We have runn acrosss andrrroidss of the Old Empire inn our travelss. There iss a grroup of them who have beenn waitinng over a millleniumm forr their colonnny grroup.The losst colonist sship forr which the Empire androids wait wass desstroyed. We have founnnd the derrelict inn the ssysstem of 175,94.We Thrynn were quite prominennt inn the Old Empire. Of coursse, ssinnce the humans were the ones to sstructure it, it evenntually fell apart. No offense againsst the humans, of courssse.The otherr races inn the Old Empire werre nott as advanced inn diplomacy as we Thrynn. They did nott undersstand the proper and nnecesssary application of force.The Old Empire wass, of coursse, based inn Earth's ssysstemm. Thiss wass certainly a missstake. It sshould have beenn based in ourr Thoss ssysstem, where the trrue sseat of government wass.The dessstruction of the Old Empire wass forr the bessst. Now the new empire sshall rise and together we sshall rule. All we need ffrom you arre certain devices which would expedite thiss processss.There arre a lot of mythss conncerning the Ancient Ones. We do nott wasste our time with legends and sstories. The onnly rrelevant innformation iss thatt they have left behind lumpss of high energy crystal which we usse.What hass become of the Ancient Ones we do nott know or care. We are conncerned with locating their ruins for their energy ressource value.We have heard sstories of a device of the Ancients which iss desstroying life in the galaxy. We have ssseen no evidence of thisss.There arre certain devices of the Ancients which would be usseful to uss. One of these is called the Crystal Pearl annd iss ssaid to be inn the City of the Ancients. Itt iss ann automatic warp-out device for whennn a sship iss heavvily damaged.We have assscertained there iss the possibility of a fairly large Ancient ruin at 42S X 13W onn planet 2 of ssysstem 154,62. Thiss, however, iss deep inn Elllowann ssspace and presentsss ssomewhatt of a rissk for uss.We arre allliess, yourr rrace annd mine, united inn a common cause. We mussst rrid the galaxyy of those who would opposse usss.Do nnot forrget about Elan. Iff you havve not allready destroyed it you musst do it sssoon, for yourr ssafety as well as ourrss.We shalll build anotherr empirre annd you shall be ourr alliess annd rule with usss.Commerrce annd mmutual aid againsst a common cause -- thesse arrre the imporrtant thingsss to rrememberrr.Ourr rraces arre much alike. We bothh know what iss imporrtannt. We musst unite forr the benefit of bothh ourr peopless.We cannot ssstand rraces who cowerr annd debassse themsselvess. Thiss lack of dignnity iss apalllingg. Any rrace who doess thiss deservess to die.Sssupreme technology iss the mossst noble goal of ssentience. Join uss in hellping the lesss asstute rraces becomme aware of thisss.Togetherr we shalll make a forrmidablle forrrce. All we need arre the prroper rrresourrces. Iff only we had the pllutonium......It iss nnot alwayss easy to accept the fact that the weak mussst die. But thiss iss the way of the univerrsse, iss it nnot?A prrophet once ssaid that it iss the dessstiny of the Thrynn to rrrule the galaxy. Of courrse the prrophet wass Thrynn, but what doess that matterrr?You havve made a grrrave missstake inn angerring usss. We cann be the bessst of frriendss but we arre cerrtainlly the worsst of enemiess.We werre prreparred to accept yyou fully as alliesss. You havve provenn that you arre nnot suitable. Nnow we mussst lisst you amongsst ourr enemiess.You havve llittle time, enemiess of the the Thrynn. Lleave annd do not anngerr usss furrtherr. We would rregrret destroying yyou.We offerr you thiss lassst warrning. You willl vacate the vicinity at onnce orrr you willl face the immediate annd dirre consequencess.Inn exchange forr ourrr safety we offerr inforrmationn. You may assk what you willl.We cllaim the rrright of frree passsage as guaranteed all nneutrral rrraces in the Interrplanetarry Trreaty of 3190.You do wissh to becomme alliess, do yyou nnot?Arrre you frriendss of the Ellowwan?Do yyou fight the Gazurrtoid?Arrre you willing to desstrroy Elan, the ssecret basse plannet of the Uhlek?Arrre you memberrss of the olld humann emmmpirre?Havve you desstroyed Elowanian sshipss?Farewell, frriendsss. We shalll meet againn ssoonnn.We sshalll meet againnn.Enough talkinngg. We havve sssaid too mmuch.