delicate negotiations

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Cass raised her hand to extended just her middle finger, her expression dark with venomous anger
“Smeg you, you vile shit!” she spat “I shudder to think what you were going to do with me!”
She glanced back over her shoulder at the massive stone creature rearing upwards behind them, before returning her attention back to the battered Malodorian and his ruined craft and narrowing her eyes
“Your death won't be even a fraction of what you deserve!” she hissed
“Well, wait a minute...” Seymour began
“Come on” Cass snapped, addressing everyone as she started running towards the starbug “We're leaving!”
The Malodorian looked close to tears as she ran past him and his craft
“Please...” he blubbed plaintively
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Jay was the next to approach the Maldorian, he'd delayed heading back to the shuttle to grab his equipment from where it had sat on the beach, and he slammed a pair of STCP standard issue plasma cuffs on the aliens wirsts, before dragging him roughly to his feet less than a second before the rock monsters fist slammed into the sand where he;d sat, then bundling him into the starbug.
"What the smeg?" Cass snorted, "Why'd you save him?"
"Because leaving someone for dead is not how I do things...."
Jay snapped curtly, "I'll slam him in a cell when we get back to the Dwarf or something, but think about it, this guy might actually know where in the smegging universe we are, if he's dead, what information can we get out of him?"
"And you honestly think he'll talk?"
"He'd better...after I risked my neck to save him..."
"But..."
Jay was getting impatient, he silenced Cass with a stern "NOT NOW!" and darted into the cockpit where Davie sat, having already started the engines.
"Shut off the engines!" Jay ordered.
"What, are you crazy?" That thing's nearly on top of us.
"NOW!"
Davie hesitated for a second, but he trusted Jay and shut down the engines.
"Two minutes...."
Jay barged back out of the cockpit, and into the midsection, and headed for the hatch.
"What the smeg are you doing?" Cass snapped, "You're going to get us all killed"
"Trust me" Jay said, by was of explanation and stepped out onto the beach, holding up his hands he slowly walked toward the creature, which was nearly out of the ocean.
"I KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!" Jay yelled. "BUT WE'RE NOT WHAT YOU THINK!"
The creature paused and regarded Jay with furious eyes.
"....is he..." Cass said to noone in particular "...talking to it...."
"YOU HUMAN" the creature replied "THAT ENOUGH"
"I get why you think that way." Jay continued "I probably would too...but we're not colonists, or miners, or anyone who's gonna exploit you're people, we're just trying to get home"
This seemed to make the creature angrier.
"YOU EAT OUR WILDLIFE!"
"We didn't KNOW your people were here! We just needed to survive! We have no other food!"
"YOU ARRIVE IN MINING SHIP!"
"Yeah...." Jay said "But...look at it properly, it's decrepit, it won't ever mine again....it never DID any mining, that was never our mission."
"YOU LIE"
"Think about it, theres a only a handful of us, what could we honestly do? We just wanted some food, and some time to relax. We don't mean you any harm."
The creature continued staring at at Jay.
"I know you're kind don't believe in violence, unless absolutley necessary. If you kill us you'll be making a BIG mistake that you'll regret forever."
"LEAVE" said the creature "NO COME BACK!"

Jay nodded. "You have my word."
He turned and headed back to the shuttle, the creature watching behind closely.
"What..." said Cass "Was THAT?"
"He's a Golem. When I was with the STCP I had dealings with them."
"....and?"
"They're entire race live silently on planets around the entire universe. Peacefully, they were content with a symbiotic relationship with other races who'd live on them."
"Then humanity reached the stars. Every planet we could find we'd either colonise, or mine. Imagine, if someone landed on your back, and started drilling into your body, ripping out ore, or fossil fuel, or precious metals. Killing you slowly, and painfully."
"When they'd finally had enough, they woke. These pacifists lashed out, and destroyed every human presence on their worlds. The Earth government agreed to steer clear of any of their worlds."
"I had no idea they were here, our sensors can't detect them. Truth is they'd have probably left us alone had we not pulled up in a mining ship..."

<tag - sorry, stupid place to leave it I know but my daughter just woke up!>