The Monster (short story)

Initialiy, their efforts meet with no success: the first subject is an Egyptian pharaoh who interprets the Ganae as gods or demons, while the second is a Prohibition-era American who thinks he is having a drunken hallucination.

The two earlier resurrectees had been summarily executed after questioning, but this proves difficult with the third: he manages to take telepathic control of an example of advanced atomic technology on display in the museum and uses it to defend himself, killing several guards in the process.

After awakening, however, the fourth human immediately teleports away; after reappearing before the survey team a few moments later, he effortlessly shrugs off all attempts to harm him, in the process demonstrating what the Ganae recognize as "mental control of nucleonic, nuclear, and gravitonic energies."

The terrified Ganae - who have long feared encountering a species superior to themselves, and being held to account for the genocides they have committed - immediately destroy the locator and reconstructor aboard their mothership, to preserve the secret of the technology, and attempt to kill the human with another nuke, which does not go off.

Unwilling to transmit a warning home for fear that the human might trace their transmission beam and teleport ahead to its destination, the Ganae decide to sacrifice themselves, steering their nearly-indestructible mothership into a blue-white star and destroying the guidance system.