A door on the far left slid open and the beings, if they could be called that, filed in.

Each creature was roughly spherical in shape and glowed with a soft bluish inner light of sorts, but did not have a hard exterior. Where one expected a sharply defined interface, there was instead, a transition zone where the creature's body simply faded into thin air.

After all of the entities got themselves situated in the council area, the high ranking being advanced to the poduim and spoke harshly, “This emergency proceeding will proceed. The defendant will now come forth and be recognized!”

Another entity flanked by two others slowed skimmed in through the door, which promptly slid closed. The center being was much more pale in color and not glowing as brightly as the rest in the room. Floating in through the crowd they stopped before the podium, seemingly to face the being of high rank there.

“The floor recognizes the defendant, state your identity designation. This court will now hear your case! ”

The pale creature then spoke up with a soft almost feminine sounding voice, “Your Honor, if it please this court, I wish to plead my case. ”

The head entity boomed, “Proceed then. ”

The pale creature's inner light flickered a second as if weakening and then began, “The leading Central Committee of Luarnia has been briefed of my intervention with the civilization number 5429-86948-89-Delta which will thereafter be referred to in this document as 89-Delta.

The Committee has ordered a full investigation into my procedings with said culture in order to determine if my decision to intervene was justified. If it can be shown that it was not justified then disciplinary proceedings will be ordered by the committee.

This document is my standing defence of my activities relating to my interaction with civ. # 89-Delta.

Let the record show that my name is Eua from the city of Sitrius on the planet Luarnia.

I acted with full knowledge that intervention of any sort between my people and any other cultures of lessor development is a serious matter requiring full deliberation of the entire Central Committee.

In my defense I point out that all Parlementary options were exhausted before I made the decision to act alone without the approval of the Council and thier allies because the situation regarding 89-Delta had become dire. Without my immediate action 89-Delta would have been exterminated in short order by another marauding and parasitic culture.

In order to expedite the matter I needed to initiate contact with the mind of one of 89-Delta creatures. This was the only way I could set in motion the sequence of steps taken in order to save 89-Delta as a race.

I searched for the longest time to find one of the fragile creatures of 89-Delta that would be able to survive the initial shock of the mind contact procedure. I was beginning to dispair that none would be suitable when at last I came upon one of them who calls herself Doctor Carmen Velasquez, a member of a feline species within 89-Delta. She prefers to simply be called Carmen.

At first she could not understand why these events were focusing on her and she was reluctant to comply until I her helped to understand that her star system was in deadly peril.

The initial mental contact did not go well, her mind was broken from the shock and her body needed extensive repair. If not for her superlatively resiliant spirit and relatively sturdy felinoid constitution she never would have survived at all.

Though still fragile compared to us, honorable committee members, the feliniods of this planet are legendary for their survivability.

In spite of major difficulties I was able to augment a few primitive areas within her brain by as much as 0.0000001 of one percent. This was just enough to be useful but did allow a sustainable power conduit link to be established.

Very little time was left to avert the coming disaster so only a few preliminary preparations were able to be made.

I quickly made the nessasary repairs to Carmen's nervous system and body.

89-Delta originated on the third planet from the system's central star, the star the inhabitants call Sol and the planet named Earth.

Recently they established a few pioneering colonies on the fourth planet, Mars.

At this point my narrative begins in the Martian locale of Cyclopia where the the 89-Delta colonists opened their first self contained off planet mining operation.

What happened after Carmen recovered was quite unexpected.....”