Contact With Chaos

When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligentlifeforms — the first which humans had ever encountered — it shouldhave been the most important event in history. And it might be — for allthe wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys tothe Ithkuil, as the inhabitants called themselves, which had the potential todisrupt their society. But, then, another ship arrived, full of idealisticdo-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature.The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce and aKafkaesque nightmare, with a potential for Greek tragedy. Contact with a moreadvance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil, but it definitely wasbecoming more dangerous to the human factions, and the situation was a powderkeg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadlyexplosion!