Kieran nodded. "As soon as they had a workable high-speed drive. Several drives were being experimented with even then." "One of them--the Flournoy principle--was finally made workable," she said. She frowned. "I'm trying to give you this briefly and I keep straying into details." "Just tell me why you woke me up." "I'm _trying_ to tell you." She asked candidly, "Were you always so damned hateful or did the revivification process do this to you?" Kieran grinned. "All right. Go ahead." * * * * * "Things happened pretty much as people foresaw back in 1981," she said. "The drive was perfected. The ships went out to the nearer stars. They found worlds. They established colonies from the overflowing population of Earth. They found human indigenous races on a few worlds, all of them at a rather low technical level, and they taught them. "There was a determination from the beginning to make it one universe. No separate nationalistic groups, no chance of wars. The governing council was set up at Altair Two. Every world was represented. There are twenty-nine of them, now. It's expected to go on like that, till there are twenty-nine hundred starworlds represented there, twenty-nine thousand--any number. But--" Kieran had been listening closely. "But what? What upset this particular utopia?" "Sako." "This world we're going to?" "Yes," she said soberly. "Men found something different about this world when they reached it. It had people--human people--on it, very low in the scale of civilization." "Well, what was the problem? Couldn't you start teaching them as you had others?" She shook her head. "It would take a long while. But that wasn't the real problem. It was-- You see, there's another race on Sako beside the human ones, and it's a fairly civilized race. The Sakae. The trouble is--the Sakae aren't human." Kieran stared at her. "So what? If they're intelligent--" "You talk as though it was the simplest thing in the world," she flashed. "Isn't it? If your Sakae are intelligent and the humans of Sako aren't, then the Sakae have the rights on that world, don't they?" She looked at him, not saying anything, and again she had that stricken look of one who has tried and failed. Then from up forward, without turning, Webber spoke. "What do you think now of Vaillant's fine idea, Paula?" "It can still work," she said, but there was no conviction in her voice. "If you don't mind," said Kieran, with an edge to his voice, "I'd still like to know what this Sako business has to do with reviving me." * * * * * "The Sakae rule the humans on that world," Paula answered. "There are some of us who don't believe they should. In the Council, we're known as the Humanity Party, because we believe that humans should not be ruled by non-humans." Again, Kieran was distracted from his immediate question--this time by the phrase "Non-human". "These Sakae--what are they like?"