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God.”, Moriti joined the conversation.
    “Is NextGens what you call humans here?”, Kevin asked.
    “No, Kevin. We call humans, humans. We came up with that name for your species even before humans knew how to speak. Most of your languages including the ones which became popular like Latin and Sanskrit were ours too. Don’t you wonder how every hum knows the English language?”, Moriti replied.
    “I thought Boriri knew English because he went to the earth and had to learn it there. I thought Keele knew it because Boriri knows but yes, I agree there is no reason for you to know English too, this should have made me curious.”, Kevin was almost apologetic for not noticing it earlier.
    “Never mind. But you get my point, right? We gave you our language, our technology, our scientific knowledge. This was not supposed to happen. We were supposed to populate your solar system and then never return back. We were supposed to only observe but we couldn’t refrain from meddling.”, Moriti paused.
    “Who is NextGens?”, Kevin asked.
    “All the 90 species that Kakoro created are called NextGens. Kakaro was a very powerful and wise king, he lived some 700, 000 years ago.”, Keele jumped with the explanation.
    “Thanks Keele! As I was saying, some of us visited the NextGen planets frequently against strict guidance from the royals. Kakoro himself forbade any hum from going there but once he was dead, his rules were no longer strictly enforced. With the technology and knowledge hums had, they were treated like Gods wherever they went. It soon became common to visit a NextGen planet among the adventure seekers. Largely, hums respect what royals recommend and seldom go against it, but those few who were hungry for adventure couldn’t help. Moreover, those who went to the NextGen planets did everything they were not supposed to do. This included making monuments which were impossible for the natives to make, showing them technology they were not supposed to know existed and worse of all, mating with them. The reason most of the NextGens are extinct is that they were all meddled with.”, Moriti put her point.
    Kevin looked at Boriri. He wanted him to comment. Boriri seemed to agree completely. He was looking at the floor, not able to defend what his people did. Deep down Kevin felt a sort of relief. He now knew that humans alone were not responsible for the mess they were in. Something more powerful and beyond their control was responsible for the most of it. Since Moriti and Boriri both already looked sufficiently embarrassed, Kevin decided to cut them some slack.
    “We can’t blame hums for everything, humans need to take some responsibility too.”, he said.
    There was an awkward silence for a while. Keele pretended to be occupied by the beautiful view outside the window. The shuttle was already in air, it was accelerating rapidly through Peele’s atmosphere. Kevin and Moriti were engaged in a stimulating conversation up until now so he felt nothing this time, otherwise for Kevin, takeoff is usually the worst phase of flying.
    “Wake anyone?”, Boriri got up to bring drinks to the table, now that the shuttle was stable and on its trajectory to Mone.
    “I will have one.”, Moriti replied.
    “I will have one too”, Kevin added.
    Moriti and Kevin started talking again as Keele and Boriri left the table. She quickly noticed that Kevin was a bit uncomfortable. He eventually told her how he felt about flying.
    “In the history of hums, you would be the only royal who is afraid of flying.”, Moriti appeared surprised.
    “How is that?”, Kevin asked.
    “Well, royals have always been known for their flyman skills.”, Moriti replied.
    “You mean they were great pilots?”, Kevin asked.
    “No, not exactly. They must have been great pilots too but a flyman is not the same as a pilot. A flyman is a person who controls the vehicle through neural connections to his brain.”
    Kevin looked confused, so Moriti decided to