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Pilau: Secondly, this is the biggest scientific discovery in decades. Does the species know you’re there?
Kila: Would that be problem?
Pilau: Yes.
Kila: Then no.
Pilau: No resident of the League of Planets has EVER been able to observe a species that thinks it’s alone in the universe. You will NOT reveal your presence to those creatures. I’m sending a xenobiologist to document everything and you will NOT get in his way.
Kila: How am I going to live here for a year and not be noticed?
Pilau: I’ll take care of that. Do we have a deal?
Kila: Yes, fine. It looks like I’ll end up dead or deported if I say no.
Pilau: Fantastic.