Colonization Report

COLONIZATION REPORT TO:

GBNXX*W COMMAND FROM:

Field

Operative, PlkTz SUBJECT: Sol III BACKGROUND: In accordance with your command directive I proceeded to subject planet to research colonization feasibility. Transportation was secured employing standard Time Wart technology. Transpositionalcorpusput was uneventful, if expensive. See attached expense account. DISCUSSION: While usual survey procedure is simply to determine if the existing fauna of a prospective Newhome planet are sapient and therefore protected from colonization under Federation law, this planet presented an altogether unique problem, bi-species sapient population. INITIAL CONTACT: As suspected, the third planet of this system is inhabited by sentient creatures. There are, however, two distinct species of self conscious beings. This is the first time to my knowledge this has occurred. One has a rudimentary intelligence, not yet, having developed the primary attributes of civilization, that is, moral sense and ethical imperative. The second species is highly advanced in all civilized respects and has a high ethical sense. I, in accordance with your directive, immediately attempted to establish contact with the sentient inhabitants to determine the level of dominance in each and ultimately to provide your command with recommendations for future colonization by our pioneer crews. since the two subject species are very dissimilar, and in the interest of simplifying this report I will assign arbitrary names to the two. Homo primus, and Homo secundis HOMO PRIMUS: Extremely well adapted to the planet's, environment. It is difficult to determine if this specie’s progenitors were predacious or herbivorous. At present there are several branches

of the population which have widely differing alimentary habits. Some are almost exclusively herbivorous while others are carnivorous. They differ somewhat in body shape, coloration, and preferred habitat, however these differences are minor and from the viewpoint of this observer not relevant to this report. The species has a high ethical sense. They nurture their young for an extended period and display profound empathetic behavior in assisting one another in times of difficulty. Their esthetic sense is highly developed and it could be the study of a lifetime to learn to appreciate their art forms which revolve around sound, form, and movement. They have developed very advanced forms of communication which allow them intellectual intercourse at extreme distances. Homo primus has, as a result, developed a global ethical and esthetic matrix that transcends their minor physical differences. HOMO SECUNDIS: At first this species was totally baffling to this observer. It has an emerging intelligence that has given it powerful weapons of survival, however these very same traits have a destructive side. Presumably the species evolved in an extremely competitive environment. The dominant instinctual imperative of the population of Homo Secundis seems to be competition. Not just competition with competing species, but competition with every entity, animate or inanimate that impedes its whim. One would think that a species that competes to the point of destruction of elements of its own population would not last long and would soon exterminate itself, however in this case its phenomenal power of reproduction offsets that factor. The species reproduces prodigiously, and its expansion in the environment available to it is facilitated by its willingness to destroy existing environment to terraform to its own specification. This is done principally without moral or ethical consideration of the needs of competing life including Homo Primus. Homo Secundis’ population is controlled, although ineffectively, by the instinctual and biological limiters war (intraspecies destruction) and disease (biological dysfunction resulting from overpopulation).

I was puzzled over this situation initially. It is difficult to envision a planet harboring such two divergent sapient species. Finally the reason occurred to me. Clearly Homo Secundis evolved on a different planet. It must have migrated to this planet eons ago under some overwhelming pressure, possibly its own reproductive pressure. Sol III apparently not having the environment of the Homo Secundis' native planet resulted in an enhanced evolutionary pressure. As a result the specie, although forgetting its origin has instinctively proceeded with re-forming the new environment to conform to their natal planet. It is not obvious which planet that is, however we can infer many of the conditions extant there and perhaps locate it thereby. The home planet of this species must be highly radioactive since their principal effort is to produce devices that will enhance the radioactivity of their environment. They manufacture huge numbers of radioactive devices and have managed to reconstitute their ionosphere and remove an ozone layer that inhibits passage of solar radiation. Their home planet must also be virtually free of competing life as another facet of this species terraforming activity is to eliminate other life through environmental poisoning, hunting, and eating. It may also be inferred that the home planet has a high concentration of carbon monoxide since Homo Secundis has established machinery to produce this substance in vast quantities. They have ingeniously developed machinery that not only will transform natural substances of the planet into these compounds but also will accomplish much of the species'work and transportation. CONCLUSION: Although Federation members may not normally colonize a planet which contains a sapient population, I recommend immediate colonization of the land masses of this planet with extermination of Homo Secundis. Homo Secundis is clearly not native to this planet and its inability to cope effectively with this environment will lead to its destruction in any case. By destroying what amounts to an infestation of the planet by Homo Secundis (locally known as

"Sapiens" —a sick joke, indeed), we not only can develop considerable new territory for colonization, but will forestall the destruction of Homo Primus (locally known "Cetaceans"), as without encroaching upon their environment. Respectfully submitted, PlkTz