Exhibit No. 37

  Depiction of a cluster of incursion spheres designed to render a tiny region of a target planet hospitable to explorers/invaders vis a vis atmospheric pressure, temperature, moisture levels, and chemical composition. Clusters tuned to the conditions on TRAPPIST 1d have been found on neighboring 1e and 1f, and as far away as the Hamiltonian Desert on Tau Ceti f, although the technology is far too sophisticated to have originated in the TRAPPIST system. Hasty emulation of these still poorly understood artifacts was responsible for the runaway solidification of the Venusian atmosphere nearly 50 years ago, spawning the Remember Venus movement.

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