"Yes, sell it off to some group of intelligent gasbags. A scandal, isn’t it? Some people will do anything to suck up to aliens. Oh, sorry, no offense." He Looked at Lindsay and saw that he was not insulted. "It won’t come to anything. Alien embassies never do. Luckily, aliens all seem to have a lot more sense than we do, with the possible exception of the Investors. Investors, indeed. Just a bunch of interstellar pests and nosey-parkers...If aliens show up in force I swear I’ll put the whole Republic under the tightest quarantine this side of a Ring Council session. I’ll wait till society disintegrates totally. I’ll be faded by then, but the locals can move out to pick up the pieces. They’ll see then that there was sense in my little game preserve after all."