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The Ummits would have gone back home. Fitted with these few information they would have decided to settle on Earth a little group, with the mission of digging a underground refuge and to explore the planet with some miniaturised probes, waiting for the bearing. According to the texts, they overestimated fully our technical capacities and had foreseen the case where these six persons would have been captured by the men of the Earth : A group of six of our brothers had been selected to establish the first vanguard on this new planet, composed of four men and of two women. All of them learnt some fragments of the different "languages" picked up, ignoring completely their signification. The group would have been composed of six persons, four men and two women. Among the men was a specialist for biology of 31 years old, a psychobiologist (18 years old), a specialist in communication (78 years old) and a sociologist (22 years old)1>. The feminine team would have been composed of a specialist for matter structure (22 years old) and an expert in pathology of the digestive system (32 years old). Let the author of the document, who, if one believes him, would have - Concerning the most favourable moment for the start, we had not much chances. We were in the end of 1949, in terrestrial time. We foresaw that some years later the conditions would have been much better, but with a very bad probability. The departure decision was taken anyway. But effectively, If we could have start in 1952, our trip would have last only two months. Our group was bringing a welcome message, written by the authorities of our planet, that we would have given the Earth authorities, in case of our hypothetic interception. This message had been written on a plate made of an alloy of iron, carbon and chrom- vanadium. This was a mixture of ideograms showing human gestures and human attitudes, combined with geometric figures, that an Earth- scientist, we thought, could have easily interpreted and that would have been a starting point for the communication between our two 97 Earth were speaking three languages. belong to the first expedition: