2.5/5 stars. This story couldn't decide what it wanted to be and therefore had too much going on. Also, what is it with this category and me not being able to like the protagonists? ( )

2015-05-16/100%: Pretty good, this has been the best of the RP short fiction so far. Doesn't mean it deserved an award but it wasn't bad and it examined interaction with an alien race in terms of culture and beliefs instead of just in terms of violence. Then it undercut that by implying there would be violence in the future.

When are humans going to grow up and understand that violence is a tool in the box but it should generally be the LAST tool you take out because it's a tool that causes at least as many problems as it solves. ( )

Mildly interesting idea, but not as well executed as I would have liked. And a weird choice of where to end. ( )