“How are we going to approach them?” Diaz asked. “We’ve always been trained to avoid revealing ourselves to primitive cultures.” Sherev raised a finger. “First off, banish that word ‘primitive’ from your mind. It’s easy to build a civilization when you have transtators and dilithium circuits and bulk synthesizers. It takes a lot more ingenuity, insight, and patience to do it with wood and bronze and muscle power. We’re all just coasting on the hard work that our ‘primitive’ ancestors did in figuring out how to build civilization in the first place.”
