Meeting of Houses: Versus

Zenith stood at the macrys line and watched as the small signals began morphing and fluctuating as the unknown species began trying to decipher it. Working to understand the species and their methods, the macrys began to work towards helping them understand.

"They're trying to unscramble the macrys, my King" Xell stated, almost nonchalant

"Excellent! It won't take them long to find the greetings. The macrys will adapt to their methods of understanding" Zenith walked to the head of the bridge where the planet was coming into view
"Prepare landing teams, I want to check this one out myself"

Inside the main docking bays, three Wolfpacks began prepping for launch.

Among the Tenebrean flotilla, The technitions and interfaced pilot’s set about prepping the camera and beacon drones selected to move out and preform the flyby of the unknown signatures and ships that their readings had picked up. the interfaced Tenebrans commanding the drones directing them to seperate from the formations that patrolled the flotilla en route to the planet, accelerating ahead of the formation in the direction of the Crimson and its fleet.

on the Captains nest, Baldwin had returned to the Interface Throne in front of the projection monolith set in the center of the captains nest chamber, sighing as he felt the Ships entity and its systems synched with his Captains V.E.A. unit with small arcs of versus energy going between the chairs spinal units and his built in unit. letting himself slide into the ships systems and its Readouts. The projection monoliths displays showing a readout of the system and their progress towards the planet.

After a moment he raised his hand, bringing up dozens of displays around him within the command throne. turning it so that it would face the view port of the chamber, HUDs in the layers of crystal glass displaying the readouts of the planet as they approached it.

“do we have a visual yet?” he asked after a time. of going over the fleets diagnostics and progress. “And how much progress do we have on the translation of the signals? has there been progress made on it?”

“not yet captain” said the entity of the ship, answering for the Translation’s progress. “Though the Signal has changed its composition, based on what we have already formed of its patterns based on its phonic structures and its noun and verb structures.” the Entity said, the image of its dragon-like avatar appearing on the monolith, casually draped over it in a resting pose.
“From what we’ve discovered so far from it, they're a… “kingdom” of sorts. the structure matches the definition. And they are… of an exploration mission.” it went on.

“so they’re not hostile?” Said baldwin from where he rested on the chair. turning his head to look at the entity’s avatar. “well… That’s a positive aspect.” he said after a moment… “whats the progress of the fly by? Do we have visual contact yet?” He asked, opening up a comm-link to the pilots that were manning the drones with their piloting entities.

“Not yet sir. We’ll be within long range visual lines within 10 minutes tenebris time…” Said one of the pilots on the comm-link. as the drones acceleration brought them within sight range of the Echo fleet.

Zenith returned to his command throne at the head of the bridge, his macrys connecting him to the data being streamed to the unknown vessel(s). He blinked the unnecessary tabs away and brought up planetary data and collision detection for the small debris that orbited the planet.

"If we pivot ourselves around short-side. We can get visuals on the ships. Maybe make face-to-face contact?" Xell spoke above the ever increasing noise of the line. As advanced as it was, the language manipulator was of need of downsizing.

"Bring us around. Broadcast hails and visual feeds to the bridge; I want to know who these ships belong to, where they've come from and what they are doing here"

The macrys began to silence itself as it finished its work.

"Echotian race, peaceful, exploration, House of Tact”

Baldwin looked over the readouts that his V.E.A. unit working in conjunction with his Command throne had projected around him as the ships entity fed him updates and reports from the fleet , as well as the updates from the data they were receiving from the unknown vessels and the scans and visuals being sent back by the advance drone formation and their pilots further up on the hanger bridge where their pilot terminals were. interfacing the comm-links so that they would interface with the projections from the monolith.

on the ship and further among the flotilla, The Technicians and the interfaced pilot's commanding the vanguard drone formation that had move up ahead of the Tenebrean fleet for a fly by and a visual of the Echotians kingdom's fleet, kept the drones in their approach formation, running further long range scans as they made their approach to the still as of yet unknown vessels.

Among the rest of the ships of the Tenebrean flotilla, further launches of beacon and camera drone formations and light bomber sized shuttles to ferry personnel from vessel to vessel occurred as the flotillas frigates organized themselves in escort formations around the much larger hull of the Research ship. while within the modified larger vessels labs and control centers, technicians and scientists, not fully focusing on the potential first contact, worked on the objective they had come to the system to fulfill, prepping semi autonomous probes to deploy into both system and planetary Orbits, as well as to the surface of the world they were on approach to. individuals working with Shipboard entities on creating models of projected environments and solar effects on the planet based on long range scans.

Baldwin remained in his V.E.A. interfaced command throne as the closer scans of the forward drone formations began to feed back into the readouts of his V.E.A. unit. forming detailed screens of data that appeared in front of his eyes in a form similar to a system of HUD. The Drone formation finally coming within a visual range of the alien fleet. The camera drones optics focusing on the wolfpack formations making their rounds around the frigates.

" So we're expecting a largely scientific force? those craft are of a combat formation... " He said after a few moments of skimming the information that he was presented. Focusing on the particulars of the translations the Entity had decoded and the images of the ships that filtered through.."

"Likely, though if we can make assumptions based on our own preparations. Its likely that their fleet has also brought a notable defensive force with them." Said the Avatar of the Ai as it sat on the Obsidian like surface of the projection monolith facing the Captain.

"i see, and the transmission?" Asked the tenebrean captain.
"Its changed its coding, Not by a huge margin, but enough now that we can translate it more clearly. it appears they're, attempting to create an ease of communication for us." said the entity.
"Do we understand it enough to send a return message?" Baldwin asked, leaning forward to bring up a file on one of his screens of the Collectives first contact Transmission. An old file, ancient perhaps. But one that had been utilized more then once in their history.
"We can relay it through the drones, yes.. and we believe, with some effort we can make it translatable to them." said the entity in reply.

"Then do so, they've attempted proper contact. We should do the same. and if it is, an enemy... Then they already know us." Said the Tenebrean captain as he spun the transmission to the Entity residing within the monolith. Authorizing its transmission through the Drones as they made their fly by via a wide beam, multi signaled relay aimed at the Echotian vessels as their optics took in the vessels of the formation.