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First Contact was always dangerous—but usually only to the man involved!
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A Matter of Protocol - Jack Sharkey
A Matter of Protocol
By Jack Sharkey
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Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC
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A Matter of Protocol
By Jack Sharkey
First Contact was always dangerous—but usually only to the man involved!
From space, the planet Viridian resembled a great green moss-covered tennis ball. When the spaceship had arrowed even closer to the lush jungle that was the surface of the 7000-mile sphere, there was still no visible break in the green cloak of the planet. Even when they dipped almost below their margin of safety—spaceships were poorly built for extended flight within the atmosphere—it took nearly a complete circuit of the planet before a triangle of emptiness was spotted. It was in the midst of the tangled canopy of treetops, themselves interwoven inextricably with coarse-leaved ropy vines that sprawled and coiled about the upthrust branches like underfed anacondas.
Into the center of this triangle the ship was lowered on sputtering blue pillars of crackling energy, to come to rest on the soft
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