ResearchTheirPurpose

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Determine Their Purpose
Solution
Complete the "Their Purpose" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
The information gained from the first interrogation was of limited value, but at least our prisoner is willing to communicate. We plan to conduct another round of questions, this time focusing on the Hydra's purpose.		(Translator's Note: We have analyzed the Hydra's responses to our previous interrogation and have overcome several hurdles. We have added words to our "vocabulary" and believe we should now be able to convey and understand slightly more complicated concepts.) Begin Transcript QUERY: CLARIFY / SUBJUGATION / REASON (factual) Neutralize threat. STATEMENT: HUMAN / THREAT / NEGATIVE (factual) Incorrect. STATEMENT: HUMAN / THREAT / NEGATIVE (patronizing) Potential threat is still a threat. [untranslatable] dictates that infancy/preliminary stage is the ideal stage to neutralize a threat. (confident-assured) Humanity exhibits aggressive/unruly behavior. We recognize this pattern. Interstellar aggression is a matter of time. STATEMENT: OBJECTIVE / SPECIES / THREATENED / UNITY / RESISTANCE (amused-aggressive) Incorrect. [untranslatable] fractures under our influence. Lack of consensus. Humans flee your solar system. Humans subvert your resistance for profit. Humans fight to advance our goals. (certain) No consensus. No victory. STATEMENT: CONSENSUS / LACKING / IRRELEVANT / HUMAN / RESISTANCE / END / NEGATIVE (factual) The salamanders believed the same, now they serve the Hydra. (anger) First threat to strike the Hydra. First threat subjugated. Many resisted. Those salamanders you see now are fortunate. Salamanders who did not obey/submit reduced to tribalism. They will never again be permitted to become a threat. (prideful-boastful) Likewise the griffins. Before our control/guidance, they nearly destroyed their species. Knowledge of biological weapons could not be permitted to leave griffin homeworld. QUERY: SALAMANDER / GRIFFIN / HUMAN / SUBJUGATION / REASON / CLARIFY (wistful-melancholy) The salamanders took our homeworld. Hostility/fear drove them to xenocide. Fire/horror/scream/disaster consumed judges, dancers, [untranslatable], artists. Hydra beauty/culture/history? gone in an instant. (resolved) Remaining Hydra on colonies and habitats reached immediate consensus: Never again.
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We finally understand why they are here, Commander.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Interrogate the Captive Hydra
Can be completed by Project:		Their Purpose
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Determine Their Purpose
Solution
Complete the "Their Purpose" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
Our "official" interrogations with our captive Hydra have brought only limited success. However, the head of our translation team has a suggestion. For some reason, our Hydra appears to have taken a certain liking to one of our security personnel, William Parker (the same one who named him Rudi). It has been suggested that some more informal conversations might be productive.		Report from the head of our translation team is attached. —————————— Despite objections from the more credentialed members of our team, I have allocated William Parker two hours per day to communicate with Rudi. We placed no restrictions on what topics were to be discussed, apart from the most basic ones concerning military security. The results were surprising. Rudi, though unwilling to discuss anything that he considers a military or state secret, has been quite willing to talk about the history of his species. The Hydras apparently evolved upon an old planet, with a single supercontinent upon a vast ocean – an ocean that contained the majority of the world's natural resources but also teemed with deadly predators. The Hydras domesticated various amphibian species, and used them to scavenge and mine resources from the seabed. Apparently the Hydras developed close, and even sometimes fond, relationships with these species; their civilization was built upon them, and once their genetic science advanced sufficiently they uplifted many of them to near-human intelligence. Unfortunately this state of affairs did not last: the Hydras had only recently discovered spaceflight when their world was devastated by an interstellar weapon launched at their planet by a third sapient species. Ninety-nine percent of the entire Hydra race died instantly, taking with them much of Hydra history and culture. The only groups to survive were those off-planet, in the Hydra's space habs and colonies. The Cataclysm, as it is known, seems to dominate what remains of Hydra culture. The species responsible for the Cataclysm is one we are already aware of; these are the Hydra slave warriors known as "salamanders." The first action of the Hydra Defense Consensus was to neutralize and subjugate the salamanders, and their entire reason for existence is to ensure that nothing like the Cataclysm can ever happen again. —————————— This explains a great deal. Now the rigid, untrusting nature of the responses we have received to our diplomatic exchanges can be understood in context. Hydra paranoia towards other species is understandable – the question is, how can we overcome it?
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We now understand why they are here, Chancellor.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Question the captive Hydra
Can be completed by Project:		Their Purpose
Notes

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