The humans rescue havenworlder colonists from a planet suddenly suffering a massive cooling trend after a super-volcanic incident on the other side of the planet plunged the planet into a sudden ice age. They had no problem with the sub-zero temperatures, but also no problem with the havenworlders needing tropical heat either. One of the rescuers smiled.
"I'm from Wisconsin on Earth, this is normal!" -- Anon Guest
[AN: Having never been anywhere near Wisconsin, I'm guessing this is one of those four-seasons-in-one-day places. Like Melbourne]
The good news was that the colony was far, far away from the volcanic traps. The bad news was that the ash was spreading through the atmosphere and making the planet rapidly unlivable for the reptillian Trachyleps colonists. They were hunkering in their shelters when the Emergency Response Fleet arrived.
They had to descend in gliders and set up a temporary space elevator, as air intake engines would quickly clog with the ash. They came with heaters, insulated livesuits, and modular structures to create and keep tunnels in the ash and snow. There was a lot of shoveling to create the evacuation paths, and at least one Human per habitat to keep the spirits up with warm treat food, songs, and stories. They knew what they were doing, and the Havenworlders could tell by the way that the Humans were joking and goofing around.
While they didn't waste their time on a snow/ash-ball fight, they did chuck a few at their semi-adobe tunnels. It was faster than hauling that stuff up to the higher areas.
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