Coming To Help

THE SHIP entered the galaxy undetected by sentient beings, because it was comprised entirely of light, highly organized, differentiated eletromagnetic radiation undetectable by any species which had not yet evolved the technology necessary to detect pure energy so highly constituted. Any such detection would have only aroused mild curiosity, and resulted in an assumption that the phenomenon was merely accidental, a random gathering of subatomic forces. The beings within it weres similarly constituted, having abandonded the cumbersome burden of matter eons ago. Their existence and presence would never be known, because they could not be seen without their deliberate decision to be made known, a decision which would not be made. In the ultraviolet end of the spectrum, no such detections were possible by any species on any planet in any known galaxy. The ship had visited millions of galaxies over millions of years, eons spent in observing solar systems and the primordial creatures which so often inhabited the soupy mixture of organic fluids which otetn adorned planetary surfaces. In every one abundant lifeforms had been found and doucmented. Most were primitive, seldom having evolved beyond the most basic combinations of organic compounds, most not even having migrated from their primordial soup of organic molecules to any semblance of self sustaining life on planetary surfaces. Those had been left alone; they would take their own course, and could be reevaluated later for possible inclusion in the project. Those which had begun the long ascent to evolutionary sentience were given closer attention, and many of them, seemingly destined to early extinction, had been given assistance. In time, they would become self aware beings, if the universe so decreed. But in a remote galaxy of unextraordinary characteristics, the overlords found an ordinary solar system in which there dwelled beings which had evolved the ability to not only move without the assistance of external fluids, but to selectively procreate, and, it seemed, to perceive their immediate environment. The ship, as usual, entered this stellar system, with its planets. The ship was so huge that it actually engulfed most of the planets; the beings below would never realize that they had inadvertantly spent time within the confines of a spaceship made of pure light. But thes beings had promise, the promise of eventual intelligence. They had evolved into beings capable of constructing habitats and cities, but the cities were awash in violence and death. The species was destined for self destruction, and would require help, help which would be easily rendered by merely rearranging the chemical structures with their nascent minds. The overlords would make the necessary changes, and return later to inspect their work.