For the most part, life on Mimiga Island was peaceful and uneventful. But on one fateful day, April 26, 2039, all that changed.


"Blast it, the power is out again!" exclaimed Folka, one of the two Mimigas in the control room. The control room is a place in Mimiga Island where two operators regulate the flow of water, energy, and waste throughout the island. This process is largely automated, but it is necessary to have people making sure the computers don't make a mistake, as they occasionally do, and to perform the tasks not delegated to a computer. Sometimes, when the amount of energy being consumed by the residents of Mimiga Island is too high, or when the amount of waste being sent to The Core is too low, various systems are turned off, in ascending order of importance (the last system to turn off would be the fans and ion rockets keeping the island in the sky). Folka and his assistant, Himosiku, have just experienced a shutting down of many of the island's systems.

"That's the third time this week this has happened!", Folka continued, "The residents really need to stop using so much energy!"

"Either that or they need to generate more trash," Himosiku replied.

Folka chuckled. "Yeah, at this rate, we'll be overrun with Humans in a few days."

The two of them chuckled, and, after a few moments of silence Folka said, "But seriously, that does worry me. If the radar keeps going out like this, we won't be able to see a Human aircraft approaching."

"It doesn't worry me that much," said Himosiku, "I mean, the one time in our history when those three Humans did come to the island didn't turn out so bad did it?"

"No, it didn't. Still, though, I get the feeling we were just lucky that those three Humans were on the higher end of the moral spectrum of Humans. Humans in general scare me. They seem to be a very flighty race. One moment peaceful, the next sending huge armies of soldiers out into mortal combat. They also seem quite careless, I mean just look at all the carbon-dioxide they're putting in the air! The less we have to do with Humans, the better!"

"Perhaps..."

The two of them sat in silence for a few minutes, when finally Himosiku burst out, "Oh my gosh, I just remembered! Remember last week when there was that food shortage and I turned the priority of farming soil enrichment way up? Well, I forgot to turn it back down again! I bet that's why we've been having so many power shortages lately, the system has been wasting a bunch of energy on soil enrichment!"

Himosiku went over to a nearby console and pressed a few buttons. Sure enough, in a few minutes the radar came back to life.

Folka glanced at the radar. "Oh, shit!!" he shouted, "While the radar was out a Human aircraft was approaching and we didn't see it! Quick, activate the lateral thrusters! There's still time to get out of their path!"

Himosiku pressed a button on the console, then frowned. He tried again. Nothing happened. "The radar came back on, but the lateral thrusters are still out," he said.

Folka buried his face in his hands. "Well," he said, "I guess we'll soon find out if Humans are as bad as I thought they were."