The Voice of Altair was a surprise of course. Talking plants are not the norm. Whoever built it obviously considered our ability and willingness to terraform Altair a strong qualification for making Contact with though. The message included directions to a star system, but when we arrived we found only rubble. Whatever planets were there are long gone. The Peloran will say little except that many systems died in the last Great War.
When the Jihadists struck, Elizabeth and her student were vacationing at an Irish casino. He wanted to test her against the casino’s systems, and while hacking them she saw the Jihadists coming through the security system. She quickly took over, began impersonating the head of security, and organized the defense of the casino. The Irish mob armed their security very well, and the Jihadists were driven off. Then it was time for some fast-talking on Elizabeth’s part.
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When the Ottoman Empire fell, the Kingdom of Syria claimed all lands on the Mediterranean Sea’s eastern shore. Fearing conservative Muslim leaders, the Christian and Jewish communities in Lebanon and Palestine sought help from French and British forces, who agreed to separate those regions from greater Syria. The Syrians did not agree and raised an army to hold them. France defeated them and took command of Syria and Lebanon for a quarter century.
The Voice of Altair didn’t precisely come from the planet herself of course. Somebody buried a very intelligent, though not cyber-level, computer system on the world and programmed it to talk to whoever terraformed the world. The Voice of Altair thanked us for healing the world and welcomed us to the galactic community in every language spoken by the terraforming crews. To say the least, we were real surprised at that. It isn’t every day a planet talks to you.
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