At hand
Next door
Next door adverb - At or in or to the adjacent residence.
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Or perhaps not, just because they had the technology to potentially engineer a fix for their own planet doesn't mean it didn't make more practical/economic sense to use what they already had at hand and just move over to the perfectly good planet next door who's inhabitants can't stop them.
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