The situation had been explained to the attendee’s and George had opened the floor for comments. Admiral Anders said, “I hate this is happening but I’m glad it caused those ships to leave. I must confess that this couldn’t happen to a more worthy group.”RV sighed heavily and said, “I don’t want to agree with Kenny but I do.” Dolly looked hard at RV and he said, “However, it’s not just the Major Civilizations in those two sectors that will die. The Minor Civilizations outnumber the Majors by a hundred to one. They don’t deserve to die because of our stupidity.”George shook his head, “No one told us about the Red Sector. If we had known we would have just met their fleets head on and escaped when forced.”Dolly said, “I didn’t mean to hit the child when it walked out in front of my car. I didn’t see it.”George moaned and said, “What can we do about this? I don’t see anything possible without getting involved with the civilizations that want us dead.”Kate said, “You want us to defend predators?”Dolly said, “Lions were an endangered species and they were protected.”“Until one of those predators nuked them out of existence.”Dolly stared at Gibbs and sat back in her chair.
