Human-alien encounters -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories
Phor, great leader of the once powerful Murians, gazed through the
matter shield across space to the planet hanging in the heavens. A
great green disk outlined in pearly light with green continents and
bluish-green seas pointed clearly to its nearness. The artificial
satellite that housed the observatory was circling this planet with
incredible velocity. This was just what they had been looking for, an
habitable planet with intelligent beings on it to aid them in their
problems. Long ages ago they had left their planet just before their
sun had become a nova and had exploded. Only a few of their peoples
had been saved and at the thought the great goggle eyes filmed in
sorrow. The great journey through space had tried them all, generations
had been born and some had died. By necessity they had kept their
population down until they could come to a system which might support
them. They not only needed a habitable planet but an intelligent people
on this planet so that they could rebuild their civilization quickly.
They were friendly and had no wish to harm the dwellers on this planet.
He did not entirely agree with the council that they should get into
communication with these peoples before landing. Phor thought they
were wasting time to encircle this beautiful world while attempting
to communicate with them. Their atmosphere analysis had shown them
small quantities of ozone and they were bombarding the ozone with
a controlled radiation. This caused them to act as receivers and
converters so that intelligent communication could be set up. It was
just like a radio without a receiving set. The ozone molecules did
it all just before decomposing. To one side he could see the huge
transformers and generators of the tiny moonlet's driving plant and
ray generators. The actual projector hung like a huge mushroom some
distance from the generating plant. The inclined buildings, due to the
high radius of curvature of the moonlet, looked as if they were falling
down all the time. Tiny figures of Murians ceaselessly worked about the
great machines that had cared for them for ages.
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