Memorandum from the Mediation Bureau

--- Introduction to SMC universe works "The Symbiosis of All Things" Welcome to the Center for Symbiosis and Mediation. We are not facing monsters that need to be imprisoned, but neighbors who cannot understand, the sad soul of the city, and dead trees singing ancient songs. Our mission is to find ways to coexist with them. But this is far from naive. When communication fails, and when the very existence of "neighbors" is the cancer of civilization, we hold a final answer called the "Forget River Agreement" - to completely erase the target from the level of existence. Lin Jing, a senior mediator, is one of the executors of "Wangchuan". She knows that every necessary destruction is a betrayal of the concept of "symbiosis." Together with Li Pan, a rock-solid guardian, and Chen Xing, a scientist struggling between reason and sensibility, she walks between gentle ideals and cold bottom lines. Here, every contact is a big gamble. Can we gamble on the goodwill of human nature in exchange for understanding from aliens? Our biggest fear is not failure in the mission, but that as a last resort, we must personally sound the death knell for a unique beauty in the universe. This is a story about boundaries - next to the most extreme tenderness, stands the most decisive edge.