To be fair to them, the Trilakons did spend the better part of a fourth-sun revolution trying to open it. The box, found amongst the ruins of Earth–a star almost a thousand years dead–offered a promise of promotion to Klkds, by far one of the most inept Trilakons, but also one of the most ambitious. […]
The majority of Trilakons were more concerned with navigating this rather larger vessel out of this rather dead system than with performing arbitrary and useless science experiments. But there was a tiny group of them who, never having found such things on a decaying planet, thought The Brightening Of The Fourth Moon had come early […]