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these comparisons very helpful. Otherwise I might have been lost withnothing familiar to identify with. This was something I had not even considered when! yearned to explore lives in outer space. The fact that the subject might not be able to translate what he was seeing due to lack of comparisons. D: Well, even though thedelay caused the deaths ofthe scientists, wantyou to understandthat it wan't yourfault. There wasn'tanything anyone could have done aboutthat. No, but the burden is still carried. It's not a burden of guilt, it's a burden of sorrow. Regret and sorrow. What doyou planto do now? (Sigh) We were debating whether to return the bodies to the home planet or to leave them. The consensus was to leave them .. for their sake, to let them lie, as it was felt they would have wished this. It was felt they would have given their lives proudly for such a mission and so the decision was to allow them to samples which had been collected to that point-only those things which were ofimportance-were gathered to be removed from the planet. The feelings are shared among the seven, which has given rise to a consensus among us, that no colony should be dispatched from such a distance that this could happen again. D: But you know how pioneers and explorers are. They always want to gofarher. P: Weare not the ones who would dictate to those who would want to explore at those distances. The scientists will do as they wish and we are in complete support of them. But it is our consensus as being the ones to supply, that it should not be allowed any farther than is necessary. I did not wanthim to bring any of these guilt feelings forward into his conscious life. Iam very careful not to allow anything from past lives to seep through and unduly influence this life. D: I want you to realize that it is throughnofaultof yourown that this thing happened. You know that, don't you? It wasnothing that you yourself were personallyresponsible for. P: That is understood. _ The Lost Colony 13 remain. And the twelfth member was buried. The records and