Mintonar shook his head in disbelief. "I read the early discovery reports. There was life on the planet. It wasn't intelligent at the time and there was a planet-killer incoming but there's never a guarantee that they'll destroy everything. In fact, they hoped it wouldn't. They wanted to allow enough time for vegetation and small animals to repopulate. If there was enough life on the planet for that, there was always the chance that something that could kill us could grow."
