[ WP ] Astronauts land on a habitable planet . They are met by an alien civilization that is smaller , weaker , and much more naive .

Dense. It is only word that comes to mind. The air while suitable for humans is exhausting to process. Exhalation is a exercise in and of itself. The lush flora of this planet one of two in the goldilocks zone was a vivid as it was virulent. While that would not warrant us to come all the way out to Citra East 357 or what we call `` The Dirty Hairy'' galaxy is the fact that we found a binary system with it's secondary smaller yellow star along with all it's own planets inside the large Red Stars own goldilocks zone. This caused quite a stir on not only the Planetary Council but also on the Survivors Board of Directors. The SBOD funded this little mission with little more than the wave of a mutated old hand. Millions of habitable worlds worth of resources at their deformed fingertips and they still craved the idea of stripping a new one down to a lifeless shell. 
 
 Shaking taint from my mind about taking this job I looked around. Ezzlebug.A.2433 cast a wide net of reddish light down on upper atmosphere that was triggering a aurora borealis type effect that was dissipated in a slowing moving crisp line by Ezzlebug.b.2433. This created a twin sun in the sky a with a crisp line where borealis was abruptly diminished by the force of the closer star. Along the bow of my ship I could see what can only be described as a large sponge standing around three feet tall with a ventilated outer surface that was surging and retracting as if breathing. Taking careful steps around my landing gear that had crushed at least three of the sponges I noticed it was moving across the landscape at a glacial pace. So slow as to be almost not noticeable. In it's path it was ingesting the thin layer of some kind of plant like algae or it could have been layers of something else. We will have to take samples. 
 
 The Sectorlogic systems on the ship had noticed vast quantities of water, hydrocarbons, and worst of all Fraxium. Fraxium only having been found on two other planets in all of the Milky Way meant this planet and everything on it was doomed. It being the main reactive substance to collapse a star into a black hole made that all but a sure play book for blasting the planet to bits from space the only sure way to keep it from ever being collected. Looking down again the sponge was on my boot. **Lost Carrier** flashed on my armdex computer. 
 

