Reptilan Squatters
Nov 27, 2022 18:15:26 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Nov 27, 2022 18:15:26 GMT -5
Reptilian Squatters
The reptilian aliens had suddenly appeared as if from nowhere, colonizing the inner regions at the Kuiper Belt and claiming that they were beyond Earth’s territorial Jurisdiction, and that therefore, the region were legally available for Reptilian colonization. Both sides believed themselves to be right, and there was the crux of the contention. Earth authorities had vehemently disagreed and demanded for the reptilian colonists, extraterrestrial squatters, as they were called by Earth authorities, to evacuate Pluto. The reptilian nonresponse to the demand was met by instant military action that left thousands of reptilians dead.
Unexpectedly, the Reptilians, had not retaliated but had appeared totally confused by the military aggression. The question was why? But no one had really wanted to know. The squatters were reptiles and not mammals as Earthians were and that had proven more than enough to consider them humanity’s mortal enemies. After all, nothing good could ever arise from ant predominantly instinct-motivated, primitive, reptilian minds.
Earth authorities were further astounded by what happened next. A reptilian delegation had requested a peaceful meeting between between a Reptilian ambassador and Earthian representative via subspace communications. Since Earth authorities did not want to be viewed as the aggressors, they ceased all military activities so that the meeting could take place. For this matter, admiral, Frederick Cassander, the brash and impetuous commander who had been placed in charge of the Earthian fleet due to his ruthless policies and who was notorious for his a fanatical hatred of all Reptilians, was chosen.
In contrast, the reptilian ambassador had been chosen for his diplomatic skills in finding peaceful solutions to those kinds of problems. Both had been provided with an enclosure separated by a force field through which served as a translator and through which interspecies communications could take place. After the initial preliminary formalities, both representatives took their seat and the conversation began in earnest:
“Greetings ambassador!” the white-haired, blue-uniformed admiral grunted in the reptilian ambassador’s direction.
“Greetings!” the grey skinned reptilian, who to humans resembled a tailless a horse-sized, biped Komodo dragon, dressed in what appeared to the Earthman as a silken, loosely-fitting, white toga responded softly before taking his seat.
“Let’s dispense with all the formalities.” the Earthian, admiral of the Kuiper Belt Fleet said from across the barrier. “After all, we both know why we are here, your aggressive and illegal and provocative invasions into our territory!”
“Your territory?” The reptilian ambassador hissed and flicked his narrow and forked crimson tongue twice while he frowning quizzically.
“Peacefully attempting to live on a planet that is beyond your legal jurisdiction is not aggression, admiral. No invasion has taken place except in your sensitive, illogical Earthian mammalian imagination.”
“But that is exactly the problem ambassador! It definitely is within our jurisdiction as are all the other objects of our Kuiper Belt?
“Yes! Yes! The name you gave this outer region so very distant from your home,world. The Kuiper Belt?”
“Yes our Kuiper belt”
“Your Kuiper Belt? Did you legally purchase this belt, as you call it? If so, from whom?”
“No purchase was needed. It is well within the gravitational pull of our sun, and that makes it our business!”
“Then why do you not have an outpost on it, or on any of the other objects beyond it that are also in the belt?”
“No outposts are necessary for them to be within our jurisdiction. We have explored each one.”
The reptilian shook its massive head in disagreement once more while looking away and frowning in frustration.
“Your criteria for claiming ownership of these regions is arbitrary, admiral! Totally arbitrary! and we need not honor such arbitrary claims because they lack legitimacy. Exploration does not constitute ownership! We ourselves have explored many worlds. Yet we make no such ownership claims based on such explorations. ”
“Yet you are claiming now, aren’t you?”
“Our presence does not constitute claim.”
“So you think that it is worth fighting and dying for?” the admiral stated more than he asked.
“The fighting was started by you-not us! Our peaceful colonists were not infringing on your Earthian activities-were they? You could have very easily ignored our presence and continued your business in peace. ”
Each explanation made the admiral more determined to make the encounter and the bid for peace a failure. He had been carefully instructed by Earth authorities that peace was not an option but only the removal of the reptilians was.
“So this means that this discussion is totally fruitless and you Reptilians prefer war?”
“No Earthman, we Reptilians, as you constantly call us with such hatred in your voice, prefer peace. It is you who prefer war by claiming what is not yours and then defending it as if it were yours.”
“But why? Why not just simply get on your ships and go straight back to where you came from? Why come here causing us both all unnecessary trouble? What are you doing here anyway! Why not remain in your own the star system? You were not invited here and are not welcomed! Don’t you reptilians understand when you are not welcomed?” he almost shouted back.
With that question, the Reptilian appeared to undergo a total change of attitude. As if some inner turmoil that it had been struggling to suppress was suddenly released and was overwhelming its consciousness. All the prior determination seemed to vanish, and in its place, emerged a vulnerable creature in desperate need of help.
Taken aback by the sudden transformation, the admiral struggled not to feel compassion nor empathy. He had been taught from infancy that such were indications of weakness and would be perceived that way by anyone who observed them as part of the human race. So he forced himself to maintain the well-practiced, hateful stare.
“Because we have nowhere to go.” the reptilian finally uttered in much softer tone of voice, as if in an effort at suppressing a sob. For the first time, it lowered its gaze towards the floor as it spoke.
“You see, admiral, our sacred, life-giving star gradually became unstable, and then it suddenly went supernova showering our home-world with deadly radiation. We, the remnant of what remains of our species, have been wandering the cosmos looking for a home for many of your centuries. We truly believed that we had finally found one here, in these regions so distant from the populated inner worlds. A place where we felt we would be ignored, and so we tried to settle. Then we were suddenly attacked.”
There was no response this time from the Admiral, who felt himself suddenly silenced by a deep sense of shame. After a period of silence between them, the reptilian ambassador finally rose to from his seat to leave, but before he did, he said the following words.
“It is indeed a shame admiral, that you have reacted in this cruel, merciless manner in response to our desperate hour of need. It is a shame that you feel this irrational innate hatred towards those who are physically different from you. Not only because it deprives us of a place to stay, admiral, but also because we have many cures for your seemingly incurable illnesses and many scientific marvels we could have shared. But now, now the offense to our collective pride is proving too great for us to bear, and we will leave you to your own devices, which I am sure will ultimately prove to be your undoing.
With that the reptilians withdrew back into the darkness of space from whence they had emerged, and were never seen again.
Unexpectedly, the Reptilians, had not retaliated but had appeared totally confused by the military aggression. The question was why? But no one had really wanted to know. The squatters were reptiles and not mammals as Earthians were and that had proven more than enough to consider them humanity’s mortal enemies. After all, nothing good could ever arise from ant predominantly instinct-motivated, primitive, reptilian minds.
Earth authorities were further astounded by what happened next. A reptilian delegation had requested a peaceful meeting between between a Reptilian ambassador and Earthian representative via subspace communications. Since Earth authorities did not want to be viewed as the aggressors, they ceased all military activities so that the meeting could take place. For this matter, admiral, Frederick Cassander, the brash and impetuous commander who had been placed in charge of the Earthian fleet due to his ruthless policies and who was notorious for his a fanatical hatred of all Reptilians, was chosen.
In contrast, the reptilian ambassador had been chosen for his diplomatic skills in finding peaceful solutions to those kinds of problems. Both had been provided with an enclosure separated by a force field through which served as a translator and through which interspecies communications could take place. After the initial preliminary formalities, both representatives took their seat and the conversation began in earnest:
“Greetings ambassador!” the white-haired, blue-uniformed admiral grunted in the reptilian ambassador’s direction.
“Greetings!” the grey skinned reptilian, who to humans resembled a tailless a horse-sized, biped Komodo dragon, dressed in what appeared to the Earthman as a silken, loosely-fitting, white toga responded softly before taking his seat.
“Let’s dispense with all the formalities.” the Earthian, admiral of the Kuiper Belt Fleet said from across the barrier. “After all, we both know why we are here, your aggressive and illegal and provocative invasions into our territory!”
“Your territory?” The reptilian ambassador hissed and flicked his narrow and forked crimson tongue twice while he frowning quizzically.
“Peacefully attempting to live on a planet that is beyond your legal jurisdiction is not aggression, admiral. No invasion has taken place except in your sensitive, illogical Earthian mammalian imagination.”
“But that is exactly the problem ambassador! It definitely is within our jurisdiction as are all the other objects of our Kuiper Belt?
“Yes! Yes! The name you gave this outer region so very distant from your home,world. The Kuiper Belt?”
“Yes our Kuiper belt”
“Your Kuiper Belt? Did you legally purchase this belt, as you call it? If so, from whom?”
“No purchase was needed. It is well within the gravitational pull of our sun, and that makes it our business!”
“Then why do you not have an outpost on it, or on any of the other objects beyond it that are also in the belt?”
“No outposts are necessary for them to be within our jurisdiction. We have explored each one.”
The reptilian shook its massive head in disagreement once more while looking away and frowning in frustration.
“Your criteria for claiming ownership of these regions is arbitrary, admiral! Totally arbitrary! and we need not honor such arbitrary claims because they lack legitimacy. Exploration does not constitute ownership! We ourselves have explored many worlds. Yet we make no such ownership claims based on such explorations. ”
“Yet you are claiming now, aren’t you?”
“Our presence does not constitute claim.”
“So you think that it is worth fighting and dying for?” the admiral stated more than he asked.
“The fighting was started by you-not us! Our peaceful colonists were not infringing on your Earthian activities-were they? You could have very easily ignored our presence and continued your business in peace. ”
Each explanation made the admiral more determined to make the encounter and the bid for peace a failure. He had been carefully instructed by Earth authorities that peace was not an option but only the removal of the reptilians was.
“So this means that this discussion is totally fruitless and you Reptilians prefer war?”
“No Earthman, we Reptilians, as you constantly call us with such hatred in your voice, prefer peace. It is you who prefer war by claiming what is not yours and then defending it as if it were yours.”
“But why? Why not just simply get on your ships and go straight back to where you came from? Why come here causing us both all unnecessary trouble? What are you doing here anyway! Why not remain in your own the star system? You were not invited here and are not welcomed! Don’t you reptilians understand when you are not welcomed?” he almost shouted back.
With that question, the Reptilian appeared to undergo a total change of attitude. As if some inner turmoil that it had been struggling to suppress was suddenly released and was overwhelming its consciousness. All the prior determination seemed to vanish, and in its place, emerged a vulnerable creature in desperate need of help.
Taken aback by the sudden transformation, the admiral struggled not to feel compassion nor empathy. He had been taught from infancy that such were indications of weakness and would be perceived that way by anyone who observed them as part of the human race. So he forced himself to maintain the well-practiced, hateful stare.
“Because we have nowhere to go.” the reptilian finally uttered in much softer tone of voice, as if in an effort at suppressing a sob. For the first time, it lowered its gaze towards the floor as it spoke.
“You see, admiral, our sacred, life-giving star gradually became unstable, and then it suddenly went supernova showering our home-world with deadly radiation. We, the remnant of what remains of our species, have been wandering the cosmos looking for a home for many of your centuries. We truly believed that we had finally found one here, in these regions so distant from the populated inner worlds. A place where we felt we would be ignored, and so we tried to settle. Then we were suddenly attacked.”
There was no response this time from the Admiral, who felt himself suddenly silenced by a deep sense of shame. After a period of silence between them, the reptilian ambassador finally rose to from his seat to leave, but before he did, he said the following words.
“It is indeed a shame admiral, that you have reacted in this cruel, merciless manner in response to our desperate hour of need. It is a shame that you feel this irrational innate hatred towards those who are physically different from you. Not only because it deprives us of a place to stay, admiral, but also because we have many cures for your seemingly incurable illnesses and many scientific marvels we could have shared. But now, now the offense to our collective pride is proving too great for us to bear, and we will leave you to your own devices, which I am sure will ultimately prove to be your undoing.
With that the reptilians withdrew back into the darkness of space from whence they had emerged, and were never seen again.