**Colony World A-01**

The Imperator took the blade and made a bow, placing one arm behind his back and one across his chest. While Rhe'Deri did not know yet this gesture in the NRE was either meant as a sign of respect or a thank you. In this case it meant both, however while Ettore did do this bow he thought over how he had just seen Rhe'Deri summon the blade, it was not like anything anything the Romans had seen before.

"_Do I dare question him about it? He could take offense and High Command would have my head if I did such a thing. No I must question him, for security of the Empire I must ask._" thought the Imperator to himself, as he finished his bow and once again spoke to Rhe'Deri.

"I apologize General Rhe'Deri but I do not have a gift for you, we did not know of your arrival so we did not have anything prepared. I have a friend on New Rome, our capital world, who is a fine jewelery maker. I shall arrange for my government to pay him to craft you one of his fine pieces of jewelery, and then I shall make sure it gets sent to you. Before you continue with any alliance offers or treaties I must state something and ask a question. I will not lie, we initiated the war we are currently in. And my question is in regards to the power you just used, we Romans have never seen anything like it, could you tell me what it is?" asked Imperator Ettore.