“We’re also picking up broadcasts from ten and twenty years later on satellites that have penetrated much nearer; but these are much harder to filter, as the quantity and types of broadcasts from one decade to another seem to increase exponentially. Though your planet is way outside the Federation territories, the admiral feels it might be worthwhile to contact your planet and about bringing them into the Federation as an island planet. But the fact that you do not have a one-world, unified government excludes your Earth as a candidate at the moment. He would like to talk to you more about this when the issues at hand are resolved.” “Unfortunately, I do not see any possibility of a unified, one-world government occurring on Earth at any time in the near future,” I said. “You know, Tibby, this mission to retrieve the Mirage Fighter and the solbidyum isn’t going to be easy. In order to confirm that you have recovered all the disassembled parts and technological designs that they have gleaned from the ship, you’re going to have to physically go in with troops. Cloaking will help them, naturally, but there is a huge risk of someone being killed down there. Goo’Waddle isn’t going to be any easier. We won’t likely be confronting adversaries in space; this is going to be a boots-on-the-ground operation. We’ll have no choice but to go in covertly, find the solbidyum, and then take it by whatever means possible — without the RMFF and firepower of the NEW ORLEANS backing us. If we can recover the solbidyum and get back to the NEW ORLEANS safely, there probably isn’t much harm that anyone can do to you after that. But when on the surface, these pirate planets are going to be a problem — we will face a constant, tangible threat of one kind or another everywhere we go.”
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