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They weren't human. They were something more -- and something less -- they were, in short, humanity's hopes for survival!
The Starship _Pandora_ creaked and groaned as her landing pads settled unevenly in the mucky surface of the ugly world outside. She seemed to be restless to end her fool's errand here, two hundred light years from the waiting hordes on Earth. Straining metal plates twanged and echoed through her hallways.