Unless you have Anthropology, Security, and Telepathy or 2 Exobiology, Medical, and Cunning>38, all your personnel are stopped. If you played an interrupt while facing this dilemma, place this dilemma in your core. To play an interrupt, you must discard an interrupt from hand.
"Why not simply ... vaporize them?"
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