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Space suits are clean and the outside environment is filthy. Space suits are used to purify and cleanse otherwise filthy and polluted air. Space suits, as is common knowledge, protect the wearer from a disgusting atmosphere on a planet of disgusting natives. The typical, normal, run-of-the-mill outer-space garb is clean, is safe, and is generally unremarkable aside from the fact that it is a suit made for space.
Now imagine a space suit identical to the one previous; glass bell helm, skin-tight spandex urethane-coated nylon jumpsuit, tubes, dials, and gauges all fairly run-of-mill. Unless you took a moment to actually look at the small six-eared green feline creature and noticed that her oxygen tube wasn't connected to anything that would circulate and filter the air. No oxygen tank pumped clean O2 into the accordion tube but the small creature showed no signs of distress, no gasping, no suffocation. If you looked even closer.. perhaps requiring you to squint or tilt you head ever so slightly to the left.. you'd notice that is seemed like the processor tank sitting on the little cat's back was actually sucking in air from the outside and expelling it from the trash valve on the back of the bell helmet. When your mind got over the shock of, first, seeing an alien so similar to one of Earth's native cats.. you'd realize that the alien creature was actually breathing pollution. Perhaps, you muse, this green thing is cleaning our air! Yes, yes, you're on the right track! Well, if the cat thing is cleaning our air and has such an official-looking suit.., a mental pause, considering your choice of silent words. ..then maybe it is just carrying out a mission?" Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner - Vanna, show our champion what they've won! At this point you would grin, silently congratulating yourself for solving the mystery without Scooby or Shaggy helping you out, and you would try to make contact with the small creature.
But let's not be silly - you wouldn't be seeing, thinking, pondering, or interacting in any of this! All humans from this planet are dead!
Zoyork is a fifth generation Elite Cleanser-XT6. Her, her parents, their parents, and generations back have all carried out tasks for the Galactic Citadel that range from mundane oil spillage cleanups to the more demanding planet-wide decontamination. Due to a genetic flaw unique to Alien Aishas (which is what they like to call themselves, although most of the Galaxy refers to them as GasCats), their bodies thrive on smog, acid precipitation, and air pollutants opposed to the more widely accepted oxygen. GasCats like Zoyork are deployed whenever an environmental or planet-wide issue occurs and normally avoid the native population so that no blissful ignorances are crushed by seeing an alien. For Zoy, this is her first extinction cleanup.. and her first time on Earth.
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