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I always like throwing in a little history into the story. It’s almost like real learning, excepting that it’s totally made-up.
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Holding up his hands to Audri and Val, Gerek said, “please. be calm, you’re safe. I can explain. Let me tell you the tale of my people and how things went bad. The bollyck home planet was an impoverished one. No mineral wealth, nothing standing-out as far as industry goes, and its location was not strategic in any way. But we were clever, and in time developed meaningful space travel. and also we did have one quality desirable to others… …we’re laser-proof. The G.O.B. was thrilled to recruit us into their military. And so, both to elevate our people through honorable service, and also to earn income because our planet was poor, we joined.” Sympathetically, Val said, “don’t worry. we’ve all been duped into doing stupid things like that.” Gerek said, “what? No. That wasn’t the bad part.” Val said, “oh. Sorry. Go on.”
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