<em>"I would like to a bit of something unique, Liara, and we must do it quickly.  I want you to use negatively spinning chronitrons from the Gatekeeper to probe the pile of ash that is our newest casualty in this little skirmish.  Tell me if you get anything that resembles communication, or a feeling.  I am hoping that my theory is correct and that these new particles are trying to tell us that we are hurting them."</em><br/><br/>Liara stood dumbfounded at the request.  She wasn't sure if the old man standing before her was simply going senile and lost all ability to reason or if there was some level of insanity involved in the aging process and she was going to start seeing the effects soon too.  "Uh, I don't know the systems that well yet Dun.  I can run the diagnostics, but I wouldn't have the first clue how to pull negative chronitons from the Gatekeeper."  She smiled for a second thinking "are you trying to say that you think there is an intelligent life form causing this to happen?  I mean I picked up an increase in bio-mass in the packs, but there's nothing to indicate an complex organism."