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  “The Home Rule forgets itself – it is not the only power in the universe. Countless times – and they have admitted this themselves, in their search for intelligent alien life – they claim to have ‘strong evidence’ that there ‘are currently at least a dozen or so interstellar, extraterrestrial civilizations out there in the universe.’ The Home Rule cannot continue on its current path, knowing that there are others with power. Looking closer to home, we know – or should know – of one other: The Tyrrhish Nomads.”