NationStates Jolt Archive

For over a billion years the Progenitors have watched from the darkness, waiting for the races of the Galaxies to be ready for the return, now they return to seek out those ready to follow them to ascention and beyond.

Drone #5722564, 5th Generation, Mission: Locate Alterran ship and make first contact.

At the outskirts of the Lantean system, a single Arcturus Ascendant-class ship detected what appeared to be a small anomoly.
Intruiged, the commander ordered contact.

"Ahead, military speed."

"Aye, captain."

"Anything new on sensors?"

One of the junior officers flinched, having been concentrating on calibrating the powerful sensors.

"We had something. A small field of gravity, but it disappeared off sensors after less than a second. Every time I think I've got it, the field drops off sensors. I think somebody's masking an object."

"Open up communication channels."

"Aye sir."

The commander stood up, straightened his uniform and cleared his throat.

"This is the Enlightened Alteran Dominion patrol vessel Janus. We have detected your ship, if only for a second, and it's only a matter of time before we spot you long enough to get a positive drone lock. Reveal yourself and communicate."

Xenon was amused, he'd allowed the Alterrans to catch his sesor shadow several times so that they would know he was there. Although he had never been part of the generations that studyed the Alterrans during the first post ascention era he had access to all of their memorys thanks to the datanet system that conected all Progenitors to each other. If he could he would smile, but because he was the drone(See Progenitor history when I've done it) he lacked the biological body to do so, Instead he simple chuckled to him self and send the data burst that he had been ordered to diliver to the Alterran ship, If they could discifer it then they were worth of joining the Progenitors.

"Incoming databurst, sir."

"What is it?"

"A data package. Mid-level encryption. Certainly much more than we've ever gotten from a non-ascended race."

"Decrypt it. You have permission to directly access core processing to do it."

"Good, that'll speed it up."

The powerful Alteran decryption engines crunched numbers, reorganising data and translating the results into a code type compatible with Alteran display projectors. After an hour, a computer on the bridge bleeped. The communications officer turned to the captain.

"It's a map. Standard cartography format, 3D co-ordinates leading to an area outside the galaxy. It's in the void. It's only partial though, we need another code fragment."

The captain frowned.

"Run it through again."

Once more the prgram chewed up the program, and anoter hour later, the second fragment came up on screen.

"Inform the Watch Office that we're taking Hypopheralcus and Hominid on this mission. I'm excercising a fleet officer's discression. My ass on the line if we get crippled."

"Aye sir."

With that, three ships of the Alteran Fleet opened hyperspace conduits to the co-ordinates set, appearing two hours later in the blackness betwen space.

"Holy crap..."

As Xenon followed the Alterran ships to the coordinates he laughed, The alterrans were obviosly very skilled at computer systems and had already cracked one of the Progenitor simple encyptions. He dicide that I was time to make actual contact, reaching out with his network field he linked with the Alterran ship and began broadcasting

"Alterran vessal, I'm suprise that you cracked the code so quickly though the elders said you showed promise. If you have a spare parabyte of data in your hard drive I would like to request permission to download onto your network so that I can assist you with any queries on who we are and why we have contacted you."

though Xenon doubted that they would agree he felt that he should ask.

The sheer arrogance of this creature!

"Denied, unknown alien. We don't know you, and you're not accessing our systems. All ships: shields online. All hands to battle stations.Alien vessel: do not attempt agressive action. We are going to scan your ship, do not attempt to stop us."

The Alteran sensors went to work, encountering some difficulties in breaching the hull of the alien ship.

"Alterran vessal, I appologise for my previous message, the Progenitors have been allown for several billion years and our people skill have somewhat diteriorated. Please accept my sincer appoligys though I would also request that you stop trying to scan me because it is interfering with my control systems and my systems will likly be to complicated for you. However, If you will please dock with the decloaking mothership and the elders will greatfully accept you. As for myslef I must now return to my wonderings amoung the Galaxies."

As soon as Xenon was finished he openned a hyperspace window and left for parts unknown, even to him. As he did the Sajuuk's pride mothership decloaked and openned it docking bays to accept any ambasidors sent by the Alterrans.