"Of the life forms that achieve sentience to reach an advanced level are less than twenty percent." Watcher replied stoically.

"What do you think our odds are?" Nick asked.

"Your current social dissonance and treatment of your less off citizens indicates a low percentile of success. I fear that if you were to attempt colonizing the two worlds within this solar system you would only succeed in ruining them. You did ask."

"I agree." Nick said his voice flat and emotionless.

"The ship..." the physicist said. "...what can you tell us about it?"

"Nothing, the ship belongs to a race that the Anunnaki either missed or that predates my creators."...