The Hlutr: immensely old, terribly wise.and utterly alien.
Sho.
Humans were savage, uncontrolled, aggressive and unpredictable.
Waiting to judge.and, if necessary, to destroy.
Waiting to observe, to converse, to help.
When Mankind went out into the stars, he found the Hlutr waiting for him.
Their soundless songs filled space, and their mastery of evolution had brought peace to countless planets.
Long before life crawled from the oceans of Earth, the forests of the Hlutr stood on a million worlds.
The Hlutr: immensely old, terribly wise.and utterly alien