 How is their world different from ours?
Of course using live bait is the best way to lure dangerous alien animals ... unless it turns out that you are the bait! Extrone asked, "Is there a pass?" Right up ahead of us. "We'll pitch camp right here, then," Extrone said. He crossed to Mia, who, along with him, had been pressed into Extrone's party as guides. "At least, then, I wouldn't be one of his guides. "What hurts most, he pays us for it. And I don't think there's another cargo rocket on this planet outside of the one we leased from the Club. "Everybody and his brother had heard the rumor that farn beasts were somewhere around here. "After Extrone said he'd hunt farn beasts, even if it meant going to the alien system? I didn't tell Extrone, if that's what you're thinking," Mia said. Too many people already know about the farn beasts. The rocket roared directly over Extrone's tent, turned slowly, spouting fuel expensively, and settled into the scrub forest, turning the vegetation beneath it sere by its blasts. "About a year ago, gentlemen, there was an alien ship around here then, wasn't there? "You'll destroy this one, too," Extrone said. Extrone said, "To begin with, they probably don't even know I'm here. "That's why we'd like you to return to an inner planet, sir." Extrone plucked at his right ear lobe, half closing his eyes. Extrone said, turning, startled. The floor, heavy, portable tile blocks, not the hollow kind, were neatly and smoothly inset into the ground. I understand that the aliens hunt them quite extensively ... on some of their planets." "Of course you did," Extrone said, lazily tracing the crease of his sleeve with his forefinger. "Yes," Extrone said, "I imagine they are. Extrone's lip twisted in wry amusement. "Of course," Extrone said. "Like all of my subjects," he waved his hand in a broad gesture, "the highest as well as the lowest slave, know me and love me. The two of them, beneath the leaf-swollen branches of the gnarled tree, were seated on their sleeping bags. The moon was clear and cold and bright in a cloudless sky; a small moon, smooth-surfaced, except for a central mountain ridge that bisected it into almost twin hemispheres.
 the government is run the same
 there is distrust among the citizens  the government is run the same  they both have powerful armies  powerful people control what happens next