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You contact CAIN using your battlesuit access terminal (BAT) and it is able to help you. It is fashionable at this period of the history of the Danikoi for eminent Danikoi to prophesy what will happen 500 years after they die. One such prophecy is due to be read in a month's time. CAIN is able to tell you exactly what it will say. You ask the decision makers to read the prophecy now instead of waiting the last few days. They consult a computer terminal and order the prophecy to be read. It causes a great hum of laughter but it is exactly as you predicted and they believe you are a traveller in time. The Disputer now says, 'I believe your story, but the events of fifty millennia in the future have no meaning for we who must eat, laugh and love in the short span of our own lives. Why should we care about the future?' There is a chorused hum of agreement amongst the Danikoi. Will you say:
| That Earth will become the head and protector of a Federation of planets, one of which is Danikos, for the time will come when you can no longer protect yourselves? | Turn to 374 |
| That the future is important: 'Surely you want your children to live happy lives - what of their children, and their children's children? Surely you would not condemn an entire generation of your people to untimely death?' | Turn to 408 |