...but destroying the forest was a foolish act. A legion of murderous, rabid squirrels devoured all of them, enraged by the senseless destruction of their homes. They drowned James in a lake of his own oil, they used John's drilling equipment against him, and slaughtered the rest of the pioneers with a barricade of thorns. The squirrels then seized the technology amassed by the Space pirates and began their own civilization, which specialized in exporting socks to other planets and...