The Guardian Dæmons. Strains, #3

Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color!Strain 3:  To strain is to sift, to filter.  Natural·selection creates some·thing new by straining a small group from a large one.  Likewise unnatural·selection. Survival in void is hard enough already without th'added burden of a persistent amorphous undeclared back·ground war of slow attrition.  What's a mother to do?Considering all that mankind has adapted to in the past, surely we can also manage such a trivial little challenge as inter·planetary war on top of every·thing else, especially since we already survived the first one, barely.  In fact, the war may well turn out to be th'easy part.