 One of the many different Monwaingi societies, possibly the ruthless biotech "Laothaung" culture, wanted the Earth and saw fit to
cleanse it before colonizing with their own biota.Ramri leaves for his home planet, determined to purge the culture that committed the crime, but aware that his own world might well be destroyed in the process.Carl Donnan and Sigrid Holmen can only look at each other and say "What have we done?"