[b]-Planet Edocea, Gakk System, Noviran Socialist Union-[/b]

"Colonel Matarahi?" asked the radar technician, peering into his terminal. "You're going to want to come see this."

The Catopian colonel made his way across the metal catwalk towards the technician. "Yes?"

The technician pointed at a blip on his screen. "We have an unidentified cruiser-class ship that just came out of FTL 400,000 kilometers away from the planet. From what I can see it looks like nothing we've seen before."

The colonel's eyes widened. "I have to contact Luna immediately."

He sprinted up through the other technicians on their terminals in the middle of the Gakk System Military Command complex, towards his office with the ansible. He slammed his hand on the emergency alien contact button, transmitting the distress call thirty light years away in a matter of seconds to where Premier Sahria solemnly pressed the button to reply.

The Premier's face lit up the central screen in the command complex.

"Colonel Matarahi, kindly report on the situation."

"We have a singular unidentified alien vessel that has appeared in our system, Premier. We have not yet hailed them, nor have they communicated to us."

"Very well, Colonel. You have my permission to issue a standard greeting message to these aliens. Let us hope that they respond positively or indeed can understand us at all."

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[hider=Standard Greeting Message to the Unidentified Alien Ship]
Greetings, fellow sentient beings. We are known as the Noviran Socialist Union, and we welcome you to the Nova Cluster, our home.
We are a people of peace, and so we extend a warm invitation to you for us to meet and discover more about each other.
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