COLONIZATION REPORT

TO: GBNXX*W COMMAND FROM: Field

Operative, PlkTz

SUBJECT: Sol III

BACKGROUND: In accordance with your command directive I proceeded to

subject planet to research colonization feasibility. Transportation
was secured employing standard Time Wart technology.

Transpositionalcorpusput was uneventful, if expensive. See attached

expense account.

DISCUSSION: While usual survey procedure is simply to determine if

the existing fauna of a prospective Newhome planet are sapient and
therefore protected from colonization under Federation law, this
planet presented an altogether unique problem, bi-species sapient
population.

INITIAL CONTACT: As suspected, the third planet of this system is

inhabited by sentient creatures. There are, however, two distinct
species of self conscious beings. This is the first time to my
knowledge this has occurred. One has a rudimentary intelligence, not
yet, having developed the primary attributes of civilization,
that is, moral sense and ethical imperative. The second
species is highly advanced in all civilized respects and has a high
ethical sense.

I, in accordance with your directive, immediately attempted to establish

contact with the sentient inhabitants to determine the level of
dominance in each and ultimately to provide your command with
recommendations for future colonization by our pioneer crews.
since the two subject species are very dissimilar, and in the
interest of simplifying this report I will assign arbitrary names to
the two. Homo primus, and Homo secundis

HOMO PRIMUS: Extremely well adapted to the planet's, environment.

It is difficult to determine if this specie’s progenitors were
predacious or herbivorous. At present there are several branches
of the population which have widely differing alimentary habits.
Some are almost exclusively herbivorous while others are
carnivorous. They differ somewhat in body shape, coloration, and
preferred habitat, however these differences are minor and from
the viewpoint of this observer not relevant to this report.

The species has a high ethical sense. They nurture their young
for an extended period and display profound empathetic behavior in
assisting one another in times of difficulty. Their esthetic sense
is highly developed and it could be the study of a lifetime to
learn to appreciate their art forms which revolve around sound,
form, and movement. They have developed very advanced forms of
communication which allow them intellectual intercourse at extreme
distances. Homo primus has, as a result, developed a global
ethical and esthetic matrix that transcends their minor physical
differences.

HOMO SECUNDIS: At first this species was totally baffling to this

observer. It has an emerging intelligence that has given it
powerful weapons of survival, however these very same traits have
a destructive side. Presumably the species evolved in an
extremely competitive environment. The dominant instinctual
imperative of the population of Homo Secundis seems to be
competition. Not just competition with competing species, but
competition with every entity, animate or inanimate that impedes
its whim.

One would think that a species that competes to the point of

destruction of elements of its own population would not last long and
would soon exterminate itself, however in this case its phenomenal
power of reproduction offsets that factor. The species reproduces
prodigiously, and its expansion in the environment available to it is
facilitated by its willingness to destroy existing environment to
terraform to its own specification. This is done principally without
moral or ethical consideration of the needs of competing life
including Homo Primus. Homo Secundis’ population is controlled,
although ineffectively, by the instinctual and biological limiters
war (intraspecies destruction) and disease (biological dysfunction
resulting from overpopulation).
I was puzzled over this situation initially. It is difficult to
envision a planet harboring such two divergent sapient species.
Finally the reason occurred to me.

Clearly Homo Secundis evolved on a different planet. It must have

migrated to this planet eons ago under some overwhelming pressure,
possibly its own reproductive pressure.

Sol III apparently not having the environment of the Homo Secundis'
native planet resulted in an enhanced evolutionary pressure. As a
result the specie, although forgetting its origin has instinctively
proceeded with re-forming the new environment to conform to their natal
planet.

It is not obvious which planet that is, however we can infer many of
the conditions extant there and perhaps locate it thereby.

The home planet of this species must be highly radioactive since their
principal effort is to produce devices that will enhance the
radioactivity of their environment. They manufacture huge numbers of
radioactive devices and have managed to reconstitute their ionosphere
and remove an ozone layer that inhibits passage of solar radiation.
Their home planet must also be virtually free of competing life as
another facet of this species terraforming activity is to eliminate
other life through environmental poisoning, hunting, and eating.

It may also be inferred that the home planet has a high concentration
of carbon monoxide since Homo Secundis has established machinery to
produce this substance in vast quantities. They have ingeniously
developed machinery that not only will transform natural substances
of the planet into these compounds but also will accomplish much of
the species'work and transportation.

CONCLUSION: Although Federation members may not normally colonize a

planet which contains a sapient population, I recommend immediate
colonization of the land masses of this planet with extermination of
Homo Secundis. Homo Secundis is clearly not native to this planet
and its inability to cope effectively with this environment will lead
to its destruction in any case. By destroying what amounts to an
infestation of the planet by Homo Secundis (locally known as
"Sapiens"
—a sick joke, indeed), we not only can develop
considerable
new territory for colonization, but will
forestall the destruction
of Homo Primus (locally known "Cetaceans"),
as without encroaching
upon their environment.

Respectfully submitted,

PlkTz