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"That seems completely implausible given what I know about how evolution works - maybe if you have a very low background radiation level for some reason, and weirdly thorough mutation-prevention mechanisms -?"

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"Or lots and lots of more advanced societies tinkering with our ecosystem - there are as many designed species out there as created ones. That's the dominant theory, anywayzz."

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"No, but someone definitely stopped in to make adjustments at some point."

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"Are there planets with life but not sapience around?"

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"And those don't have Earthlike diversity either?"

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"Most of them aren't habitable to us natively and don't have morphs that'd be usable for us outside their specific atmosphere and gravity and so on. Earth is very Homeworld-like. Andalites are - not the likeliest to have catalogued such biodiversity, if it exists."

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"The Skrit Na might have instances of things in a zoo somewhere. If you are wondering who the cosmopolitan spacefaring scientists are, they - aren't. The Andalites might have grown that way if not for, well, history."

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"Oh, well, that's disappointing. What history is this?"

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"The first species we met were the Yeerks. We eagerly set down and taught them all we knew of science and engineering, and they patiently waited and learned until they could kill their teachers and head off into space enslaving or killing everyone they met. After that the Andalite High Command made and enforced strict laws against sharing our technology."

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"- so do they have the morphing thing too? You said that was tech -"

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"Developed later. There's one Yeerk who infested a host who can morph - the only Andalite ever to be taken - but no Yeerks who can morph in their native forms and they could not develop the technology on their own."

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"Oh - I guess that makes sense - I was going to say if they want to be human shaped they could just, they could just turn into humans without -"

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"If there were a way to trap them that way, instead of handing them unbounded capacity to become whatever they wanted -"

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"Have they got very objectionable behaviors besides wanting to infest people?"

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"They have a tendency to kill everyone on planets they can't infest, I have no idea to what extent that could be mitigated if they didn't consider themselves perpetually at war with everything they can't enslave. They have committed a lot of other war crimes but, truth be told, so have we."

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"Andalite High Command will blow up this planet if they don't think they can save it."

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"How hard will they try to save it?" she murmurs.

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"I don't know. On - on the Hork Bajir homeworld they really did send their best, and they waited until there really was no hope. But I think many people think they waited too long."

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"We don't have control of this star system, we can't do an evacuation unless we - cut a deal with the Yeerks, let us take half - we are not currently considering that -"

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"- let you take half instead of either of you blowing the place?"

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