"Well, let's try it now. What did you come here to think about?"
"Earth Friend is getting increasingly agitated that we won't sign a new Planetary Protection Pact to replace the one we convinced him to nullify on the pretense of handing over total control of the Jupiter Refueling Base and the ruse of our insistence on Earth getting "Preferred Status" with the Galactic Union."
"Oh, well," I replied glibly to myself, "He was perfectly willing to take advantage of us for his own benefit, even knowing the way the GU ends up gutting new civilizations like ours in the end. Let him get as upset as he wants."
