“Damn it Bob, why didn’t you flip the power switch? Now they keep sending that satellite around to focus on us.”
“Phill please, there are two hundred thousand workers here trying to get a job done. By the time they send anyone to look, our mission will be over anyway. I’m too busy to lose power every time that probe does a flyby. That Earth species is so primitive they probably imagine anything but life could make this amount of light. For fuck sake most of their population is locked in endless wars hating and killing each other to even give a shit. Don’t you have mining drones to repair? Be mission oriented and stop worrying about those terrestrially stuck monkeys.”
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