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the trigger, our enemy would be destroyed and our continued existence would be assured, we would NOT have been able to pull that trigger. It is our nature and we can do nothing about it. We tried and it did not work. We literally go insane when faced with that situation. I am not sure that we ever really wanted to change. We could create the weapons, we could provide support for the pullers of the trigger but the act itself was beyond us. Knowing that, we explored what we could do without damage to our psyche."
    "The second thing is that we had and still have a very advanced technology base. It was possible for our people to escape to such a distance that the Glarin could not reach us for many years and if we did it in stages they could never reach us. As you have been told, the Glarin ships cannot currently exceed a speed that is six times the speed of light. We had at that point the means to travel at faster than light speeds in the range of 6,000 to 12,000 times the speed of light and some exploration ships had been previously dispatched for exploration at those speeds. We usually limit ourselves to 10,000xSL. We had the power source to drive a very large ship but we needed something that could move 1.5 billion people in the time left to us. Thus the concept of the Type 1 station was conceived. We felt that if we had two such station/ships we could move the entire population in one massive effort. We could place ourselves beyond their immediate reach and construct sufficient stations that we could then move on and never be reachable by the Glarin. We were aware of the existence of the planet at Tau Ceti via some earlier probes. So we determined that we would regroup there."
    "We used what were later to become the military sectors and part of the raw material storage for the storage of sufficient food to sustain our entire population for at least two years in addition to what the station could itself produce. We packed everything we could into those two ships. We initially built floors 694 through 774 of the inner habitat dwelling units, both stations, both habitat sectors as stasis chamber containers and then we packed in our people in stasis units to further reduce our needs for food and oxygen. Ninety per cent of our population was asleep in stasis units.  We built a third ship without any habitat area and that ship was a massive warehouse. Any tool, any device that could be of use to us, every technology, industrial, commercial, medical, all our data bases, anything that fit in that ship, we took with us. We made a substantial dent in the fresh water supply on the planet. If we could not get it on the ship and it might be useful to the Glarin, we made it unusable by reducing it to its component parts and rendered those non-repairable.'
    "It sickened us to do this to our home but the Glarin were coming. We did stop at the point of poisoning the planet but there was nothing useful to the Glarin left. Even the metals in our buildings were removed and taken with us. Oh, mining was still possible and the minerals were still there, but all evidence of civilization was removed. That sort of thing takes a toll on your psyche. Our foundries and fabricators worked around the clock to make as much Herculenium metal as they could and we took it with us. Whatever space was left was loaded with historical records and technology records and we took it with us. All traces of our technology, we took it with us. It must have been very frustrating to the Glarin when they arrived and saw what we left them. Frankly, it gave me a bit of pleasure to frustrate them in this manner."
    "The third thing about us is that we are a people of conscience. When we moved those stations to Tau Ceti, we seeded cloaked tracking devices along the way to see what was developing with the Glarin. We, in short order, found that they were moving in this direction and that your civilization and five others, a bit further on, were in their projected path. Had we