Matt Huang wrote:[ooc: After consulting both my system map and the main STGOD map, and taking into account the detection of radio and other long-outdated means of communication, the only world/system that fits your criteria is Avalon itself. Rest assured though, the Avalonians may be insular but they're not the type to immediately slaughter sudden visitors. However, any unauthorized attempts to land would be most unwise given the presence of a full-coverage planetary shield grid.]
A small fleet of vessels was floating around the planet, ranging from macabre multi-kilometer scale constructs that appeared to be constructed of bone and solidified darkness, to small, roughly cylindrical crystalline blue vessels that were barely twenty meters long. By their complete lack of reaction, the fleet indicated that the Khar expedition indeed posed no threat at all.
It took a short time for FleetCom Main to match the alien language with a precursor form in the Ancestor Database and create a translation key. The signal was translated and the information within passed along to the Senate Xenos Council, who would be interested on some level in finding the decendants of one of the races the Ancestors had catalogued long before the first fall.
In the meanwhile, the head of FleetCom Main was charged with the defense of the League. He had communications open an audio-only channel and spoke.
"Khar vessels, you are well within Avalonian League space. State your intentions now."
Avalonian System "Avalon"
taskforce:THANATOS
The Khar vessels had shields up, as they had already been for the jump, but they steadfastly refused to power weapons or target them at the Avalonian ships, perhaps realizing the futility of picket vessels engaging even a handful of true ships of the wall.
The Khar Diplomat obviously bristled at some part of the terse Avalonian audio transmission, as the reply came thus:
"The Khar do not currently recognize the sovereignty of this Nevaryutib Empire, and so are not within any space but the universe's, which is by all rights claimed by the Great Race of Khar itself.
However, it is to be considered that to be diplomatic, we will, at the time, accept your claim of territorial sovereignty over this system and others that your race claim, within acceptable limits.
The Khar have detected your presence, although you have not announced yourself to them. taskforce:AZATOTH is a verification fleet made to determine the presence of and the sophistication of Nevaryutib or Nevaryutibiz natives within the Rimward Edge of the Cluster.
Based upon analysis, your voice and glottal patterns lead us to believe that you, the Avalon?, are yet another Primate Descendant Colonial Race known as Human and a Lamnamuyaraiz [Untranslatable]... we do not know if that will autotranslate, but it means 'A Sub-Empire Kingdom That Does Not Establish Claim As Rightful Owner Of All Others Of Its Race And Is Not United With Others By A Ruler More Powerful'. Is this correct
If incorrect, please correct if at all possible. If so, this taskforce's tertiary mission objective (declassified) is to isolate cultural and political distinctions making this Avalonian League and establish a mutually beneficial trade of goods, ideas, and slaves among our powers."