[ WP ] Two earth like planets occupy the same solar system ...

`` Successfully left Moon gravity pull. We are now on a straight course for Xantiv 4 captain.'' The computer blurted out as I watched the lines on the display. Everything was looking good. I was happy, I even smiled behind the thick, protective glass of my helmet. `` Great Zi, calculate all of our expected trajectories and make us ready for all of the manoeuvres please.'' Please. It still felt silly to talk so kindly to a robot. To a *machine*. Yet it was something everybody of the crew picked up on, and the robot even seemed to like it. 
 
 I leaned back in my chair, looking through the small windows, marvelling at the beauty of space. And the tiny green dot in the distance. The dot that soon would grow. We had know about it existence for centuries now. We had studied it. Analysed it. Spied on it. Only eighty years ago we send radio transmissions to them. Five years later we received some. All unintelligible of course, but signs of life at least. 
 
 We send probes, satellites and space vessels. All computer controlled. Spying on them. Trying to get a picture of life on that strange planet. But technology was not advanced enough. It was only 20 years ago that we successfully send a probe that send back an image successfully. It showed us a lush, green jungle planet. Most of its nature still intact. Pristine beauty. Our own world was a beautiful jungle as well, but large parts of our worlds green lungs had been chopped down though. Other parts contaminated with chemicals and radiation. We had n't treated our planet as good as they had theirs. The small tendrils above my lips twitched and I gently played with them, calming myself down, chasing away the uneasy feeling I got every time I thought about our world, our society. 
 
 Our mistakes. 
 
 `` Captain, we are receiving a new series of orders from HQ.'' I turned in my chair to see Va-chi. She was the beautiful flight engineer of the crew. Her big, puffy cheeks coloured a beautiful purple pink. She always made me smile. But not today. `` What do you mean new orders? I though our orders where pretty clear?'' I was annoyed. Another stunt of the political machine for sure. `` Show me.'' I grunted less friendly then I would have liked as I crawled out of my chair. 
 
 Va-chi floated through the vessel in front of me, her long and nimble tentacles catching on the small supports specifically designed to allow us to propel ourselves forward in zero G. She slid to a halt at the end of the corridor and held open the metal latch for me. I quickly scooted inside and allowed enough room for her to get in as well. Closely packed together I spoke again. `` Show me please.'' Paying attention to include more manners this time. 
 
 Va-chi smiled and quickly pressed some buttons with her fingers. And we both watched the screen flicker to live. It was very clear, in bright green text. *- New orders | High importance | change flight plan immediately accordingly -* And underneath that *- Transmission 35.76 % completed-*. I grunted as I watched the percentage rise very slowly. `` Why now? Why change the orders now? Could n't they have done this when we were back on Vatrans? So they could have altered our training too? This smells Va-chi. This smells.'' She looked at me with big eyes. Three big, beautiful eyes. A milky white with purple dots in them. Her voice was soothing. `` I agree Tum-bro. This feels off.'' 
 
 We both got out of the small telecommunication pod and crawled back to the cockpit. `` You know... back on Vatrans I heard rumours.'' I looked at her with a puzzled look. `` What kind of rumours?'' She seemed to be hesitant to answer, but before I could scold her she did. `` Rumours that our government does n't want to make peaceful contact with them. That they want to spy on them. See how weak and strong they are and if we can, attack them to steal their resources.'' She looked away from me, clearly uneasy. I leaned back in my chair. It sounded plausible. We all knew our planet was being harvested, slowly killed by ourselves. All of our natural resources were running out and soon we would have depleted them all. It made sense for them to see if they could suck empty the new kid on the block. `` So what if the new orders... accommodate these rumours. What then?'' I ask her with a suspicious glare. `` We have a duty to fulfil.'' I added. 
 
 She turned towards me. `` If the orders accommodate the rumours... I'm afraid I ca n't continue with assisting you on this mission captain. Duty or not.'' It was the answer that I had expected. `` So you'd rather face me and the council then to continue with the mission? Why? You never met what lives on that planet. Who knows what they or and how vile they are.'' She quickly replied. `` Who knows how kind they are. How beautiful they are. How much better at living they are.'' Her eyes were clear. Strong. `` I ca n't help this vile government of ours with abusing another world captain. I already had to see how they handled our own.'' 
 
 I pushed myself away from her, towards the holotable, flicking it on with a switch. There were two holograms. One of our own world, Vatrans, and one of the other world. We named it Blurtrans. Both where lush jungle worlds but our world even showed the years of abuse we put on it from orbit. Large pale swaths of land where once lush jungles were. She was right and I knew it. But we had a duty. We were Royal Explorers. We could n't just ignore orders. I turned back towards her. `` Let us first await these new orders, and then see what we do with them.'' She looked at me. A long and piercing stare. `` Very well.'' and with that she hovered to her own chair, tugging her tentacles away in the compartments and moving her arms and hands on the keyboards.
