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people staring at us decide to come over and ask us to their church…
again,” he said with a grimace.
    Darting a quick glance around the people who seemed to be
staring their way, she gave a sigh of relief when she didn’t see Vince Baker
anywhere among them. However, she’d still feel a lot better once they were back
at the cabin. Hopping in the truck, she calmed her nerves so her Uncle wouldn’t
notice and delve into why she’d seemed so nervous.
    *****
    Scaden was in the Tactical Room surrounded by his team scanning
through the mountains of information that Gracus had already gathered so far.
Apparently, the planet had made some major technological advancement since the
last time there had been a report done. Gracus had been able to hack into the
basic computers of the satellites orbiting the planet and had retrieved most of
the information they were currently looking at.
    They had been looking through past and current news around the
planet and reviewing information on the weapons in use, and the military
protocols of the different regions. And Gracus already had the computer’s
working on incorporating the different languages into their translator devices,
so he wouldn’t have to keep converting the information into their own language.
    “Sir, from what we can gather right now, the distress signal is
coming from a remote, mountainous area of what is called the United States. And
although we’ve found signs that at one point, the Relians were on the planet,
we haven’t been able to detect a prolonged presence of them anywhere. Which is
strange since the planet is rich in resources that they would be interested in.
And we’ve found no signs that their language is among any of the languages
currently spoken. It looks like they had tried at one time to plunder the
planet, but they just vanished. I’m not sure what to make of it.” Niklosi told
Scaden. It was obvious that he was just as excited at this turn of events as
everyone else.
    “I’m not sure what to make of it either. It looks like there had
been more than one civilization on the planet that had seemed to vanish
throughout different points in their history. Aztecs, Anasazi, Mayans… and
that’s just in the regions around the United States. There were many others
throughout their world. I wonder if the inhabitants at some point rose up and
defeated the Relians but had called them by one of the names used for the
vanished civilizations. Considering their budding technology though, I’m not
sure how they would have accomplished such a feat. If they did, they must be
quite a resilient race and stronger than we think. We don’t want to
underestimate them, if we plan on landing a transport on the surface.” Balduen
added with a hint of respect for the planet's inhabitants.
    “If we decide to transport, it would be fairly simple to avoid
detection. The biggest problem we’d have is navigating through the
non-functioning satellites they have still orbiting the planet. But even that
wouldn’t be hard to do. It surprises me that they are advanced enough to put
them in orbit, but can’t seem to get rid of them once they are no longer
useful.” Another Tactical Team member said.
    Scaden ran a hand through his hair and shook his head at the
strange and conflicting information that they had been reading for the last few
hours. Not much of it made any sense. There was some piece of this puzzle that
they were missing. However, none of them could seem to figure it out. Nothing
about this planet or its inhabitants was even remotely ‘normal’ from the last
report that had been filed to the information they were looking at today. No
race that they had ever encountered had shown such a major difference in so
short of a time.
    Scaden looked up as the MedLab Commander, Amun Nassur entered the
room. He seated his six foot five inch frame into a chair next to Scaden and
turned to him, looking serious and a little flabbergasted. He didn’t have to
wait long to