[ WP ] A team of Extra Terrestrial scientists reach Earth , which they deemed `` potentially habitable '' from their planet , and are astonished by their findings .

Klark shuffled tendrils and reviewed the scan reports. 
 
 Planet 2 looked a little odd. Based on its distance from the host planet, it should be able to sustain liquid water and liquid gallium - the two core fluids his race ( and by extension, all life ) required to thrive. But it seemed hotter than it should be - could the scans be erroneous? 
 
 Planet 3 was worth a look too - too cold for liquid gallium, but maybe it had localized hot areas that could sustain this basic building block of life, especially if reports of its reasonably low axial tilt and large moon were accurate. Klark would see. 
 
 Klark decided the results were just over the lower threshold of warranting a visit. Klark's spaceship engaged its hyperthrusters, and arrived in the JT124 system and started using short-range analytics. 
 
 Planet 2 was a writeoff. Carbon - a minor pollutant on Klark's planet of Hyperion, was everywhere in its atmosphere, and some feedback effect Klark would like to study was causing the planet to become extremely hot. 
 
 Planet 3, however, was interesting. The atmosphere was utterly unbreathable with huge concentrations of the dangerous compound oxygen, but there were signs of activity on the surface that had to be investigated. Klark set a course to orbit the planet and was stunned to see that, in addition to the obvious large satellite, it had several dozen miniature satellites, many of which shared a geosynchronous orbit. Was another intelligent lifeform already probing this planet? 
 
 Klark arrived in orbit and commenced ground imaging. What Klark saw stunned Klark. Somehow - on this planet without gallium and with oxygen pollution bad enough to allow fire - there was semi-intelligent life. Nothing else could explain what Klark saw. Could these'lifeforms' ( Klark used the term nervously - could something made of carbon actually be alive? ) have created these satellites? Klark commenced communications with home. 
 
 As a result, Klark did n't notice the small object rocketing up toward Klark's ship. The precision-guided missile struck Klark's ship, overcoming its shielding and obliterating it in an explosion visible during the day on Planet 3.
