- EPISTOLAR OF TARSUS
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
-Paul of Tarsus, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans.
[Agent Pebble]:
There is potential interest in taking a team of physicians and biologists on a mission. The first is to serve as a guardrail for the newcomers, but the veterans already know that if something wrong happens, nothing and no one can save them, unless holding them in agony guarantees them a fate worse than death itself. We are a beacon of light and hope. And the second reason to bring some Epistolars is that we are also a bastion of understanding. We analyze the fauna, the flora and, with luck, the corpse of some deceased intelligent alien specimen. We bring a greater understanding of their body and, with that information, we hope to have an advantage to better understand their soul.