#MastoPrompt #microfiction

The report was not clear.
-You say there was a civilization on that planet?
-Certainly.
-Intelligent beings?
-Well, that's hard to say. What do you mean intelligent?
The supervisor sighed.
-Language? Record keeping? Advanced tech?
-Oh yes. We have seen at least #vestiges of all that, although their tech was basic. They might have gotten there.
-If they had more time?
-If they hadn't wrecked their ecosystems.
-Not intelligent then. Dismissed.