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摘要

Out of the bowels of space they came, the myriad ships of the greatest exploratory force the galaxy had ever seen, their sleek hulls glinting in the furtive starlight. The Sgrin'th fleet eased gently into orbit around the blue, watery third planet of a moderate-to-small yellow star, reflector screens raised to make the arrival undetectable to the instrumentation of those on the world below. For the Sgrin'th had been able to tell from many light years away that this was indeed the home of a technological civilization - although not, of course, whether it would survive long enough still to be there when the fleet arrived. So many technological civilizations foundered young. This one, however, was still extant -although only just.