The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

by Ann Leckie

“We got here, found you. And we found, not just life, but intelligent life. Not that the company cared about that—or even the government. But word got back to earth that not only was there intelligent life here, but it was squishy knee-high creatures in pretty colors that ate plants, and so it became a question of publicity.”

The company might know how to make you all live longer. It probably does. But it won’t do anything to help you make that happen unless it gets something out of it. And there’s nothing the company would get out of it that it isn’t already getting from you.”