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###INCOMING MESSAGE###
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SOURCE: Outpost M-48
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ORIGIN: Unknown
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DATE: [REDACTED]
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DESCRIPTION:Transcript of a history lesson conducted by prof.
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Judith Carter on [REDACTED]
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---BEGIN TRANSCRIPT---
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Alright everyone, settle down. In previous lesson I was talking
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about this non-involvement law as well as the fact that merely
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observing the civilizations from often gets you mixed results. So
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we came up with a solution in form of Primitive Planets Observation
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Agency. This pseudo-militaristic organization is responsible for
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monitoring these primitive civilizations - once every 50 years, an
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agent is sent down to the surface where their task is to blend in
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with the locals, gather information and assess the civilization's
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level of development. Since this is dangerous work, they're
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accompanied by special Asimov-class androids to aid with
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information gathering as well as offer some protection. Those
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things are nasty piece of work - they've been designed to imitate
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every physiological process down to little details, such as eating,
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sleeping, breathing, even hair growth as well as some odor
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emission. The illusion is almost perfect. Almost. Only skilled
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observer would notice their expression being ever so slightly
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stiffer than usual. Sometimes however, the physiology and anatomy
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of locals is so different from humans, that we have to improvise a
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little. In those cases, we construct a cyborg to be controlled
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remotely. If you ever saw those ancient 2D movies like Avatar or
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Surrogates - it's kinda like that minus the politics and ecology
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problems as we're merely observers in this case.
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Alright, I'm afraid that's all we have time for today. Thank you
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for listening, if indeed you still are - I'm looking at you James -
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and you're all dismissed.
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---END TRANSCRIPT---
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