Contact With Chaos

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When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeforms first which humans had ever encountered should have been the most important event in history & it might be all the wrong reasons Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the Ithkuil as the inhabitants called themselves which had the potential to disrupt their society Then there was the UN which controlled the planet Earth Earth & Freehold were not on good terms to put it mildly & the UN immediately sent its own ship to make contact with the Ithkuil If the authoritarians from Earth started throwing their weight around Freehold would have to push back causing anything from a diplomatic incident to outright war & then another ship arrived full of idealistic do-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce & a Kafkaesque nightmare with a potential for Greek tragedy Contact with a more advance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil but it definitely was becoming more dangerous to the human factions & the situation was a powder keg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadly explosion