Cristian Alejandro Solari

The Experiment Cristian Alejandro Solari

All intelligent species in the Universe live in harmony under the Constitution of the Confederation. To try to understand how high intelligence was reached by member species, experiments had been set up by the Confederation in different star-planetary systems; researcher Geb is assigned a particularly promising one. To everyone's surprise, this experiment succeeds and self-conscious preintelloids evolve and thrive. But, on a routine analysis, Geb finds astonishing evidence of a new technological development that would allow preintelloids to migrate from their star-planetary system and meet their creators. Their space travel technology was not expected to be so advanced at that stage of their evolution, before becoming full intelloids. The Confederation has two uncomfortable options: either terminate the experiment and risk going against the Constitution, or not interfere and risk an invasion of a potentially dangerous species.