The Final Frontier

          "The command is my responsibility." Ruth said.
          "That's not right! We came to help, not knowing where you would take us."
          Sally said. She started to turn away. Once more her time line repeated.
          "That's not right!" Sally hesitated. She looked about and spoke the words
          again, "We came to help, not knowing where you would take us." She
          paused with a worried look.
          "I tell ye all now. So all may remember. That what ye fear has no meaning
          for us." said Jaspher. "Our answer is the same as if a child in the road way
          would cry for help. Nothin changes. We are energized and powered forward."
          he said.
          Ruth shook and shuddered, "My course is fixed. No counter command will
          be admitted." Jaspher glanced at Ruth and remember her auburn hair.
          "We will finish our trek through the shadows to the promissed land."
          he said.
          Sally focussed hard, "Don't block me! Do you hear me? The destination is
          already inhabited. We must not destroy sentient life!"
          Their bodies and minds were fused into one stream of light. But, Sally refused
          to accept the prime directive. She had to protect life.
          Jaspher tried to rerout Sally into a loop. She would not be turned, "The Origin
          knew as we should know there always alternatives. We must question are
          objective."
          Ruth spoke out a line command, "I see the promissed land. It is fertile and
          good for us. Behold a blue planet third from a yellow sun. Let us embrace
          it with our wisdom. We will make a race and call them human for we will
          make flesh from earth."
          Ruth's command overrode Sally. Native life would be secondary to the
          prime directive. The age of dinosaurs was at an end.

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