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The night sky was full of stars. They were all falling, or so it seemed. They were really synchronizing their descent, in perfect formation. The people down below were in panic. It was the end of the world, to most of them. “Sire, I perfectly understand that those were the orders. What I can’t understand is why.” “The Council believes they are ready, captain. They need the Watcher to orbit another world. A new one. They have high hopes with this one…” A new one. That meant that the Watcher wasn’t returning home, after all. But the main problem persisted. “And what about the humans? What will happen to them now, supposing that they can survive the Contact Shock?” Contact Shock was one of the oldest recorded events in the Grays’ long history. Whenever they believed a lesser race – most of the time engineered by them – was ready to have official contact with its creators, the event that followed their descent from the skies was called Contact Shock. Most of the races – over 75% of them – didn’t survive this period, the idea of not being alone too much of a strain on their collective minds. Those who survived would begin a new and better era; those who didn’t wouldn’t last more than an Earth year. Humanity had already gone through Contact Shock once; the results were disastrous, but the Council – in a rare act of compassion and perseverance with one of its “own” (or, more likely, a victorious speech by the Watcher’s captain about giving the humans a second chance) – decided to do the wiping out process themselves, sparing just a few to begin the race anew. The first human Contact Shock occurred four thousands years ago. “They will be relocated as well,” continued the Gray officer, “to the binary system of Udula Rhomp. Their ship is ready as well.” “But it has never been tested before! How can the Council be sure Earth will be functional?” “We have been testing it for millennia; granted, it was only an individual systems check, but that’s standard procedure.” “You will relocate Earth without being 100% certain it works. With the humans inside.” The captain was definitely unhappy. He had devoted his very soul to this race, and now it seemed headed for destruction. The Council had lost all interest on them. “Humans are not a priority anymore. But you need not worry, captain, your future assignment seems promising enough.” And so it was. The captain sighed one final time – he had been sighing for quite awhile now – and decided to accept his new assignment with complacence. Maybe this new experiment will prove to be more successful… Author's note: For the sake of simplicity, the Grays speak english, express themselves like humans do, have a military hierarchy like the humans...just think of it in this way: they speak english so that you understand what's going on; they don't talk at all, but rather communicate through telepathy; their hierarchy is not modeled after humans, but quite the opposite - humans modeled their system after the Grays, without knowing it. Part of the genetic implant...? Imagination's the limit.
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