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COMMANDER

How can this be?!

I can't believe...

Swallowed in flame

Yet still they breathe!

I have a plan

Bring me the head of the science branch

Scientist! Come forth! Rally your research team

The time has come to do what must be done

Let it be known, and so let no man sleep

Until the secret of the skin has been unsealed

(Keyboard solo: “What the Fire Divulged”)

SCIENTIST

Experiments have just confirmed

The flesh of the Annealid will never burn

Deep within their tissue we have uncovered

Some elements previously undiscovered

COMMANDER

How could we have been so blind

It's been right there in front of us th'entire time

Give me your hand child, look in my eye

Hear me now as I say

We must swear to do th'unpleasant things

That will lead us to solutions we've been striving to uncover

No place for questioning, we'll bring them in for medical attention

That's the red herring to fleece their crystalline flesh

SCIENTIST

We must not do this

COMMANDER

What other choice do we have?

SCIENTIST

They’ve a right to exist

COMMANDER

The only hope for earth-folk to defeat the heat is skin of the Annealids

SCIENTIST

These beings are alive

This is genocide!

COMMANDER

Nothing less than neverending blue skies, divined for us

By the power of the blue hide

We'll survive