It wasn't long before other's joined in following Twilight on her way out of the castle, afterall, Celestia had left out the useful little detail of exactly 'where' they should all meet up, perhaps on purpose, naturally instigating a group of mixed individuals stalking Twilight to 'her' destination.

It wasn't until they actually left the Castle that Vastu finished his 'reviewing', as far as he was concerned at least, and returned to his observations of their surroundings.

Now, while the inside of the castle had maintained the look of 'the old times', everything about Canterlot beyond was the exact opposite, aside from still looking glued to side of a mountain, something that many would consider an overwhelming structural vulnerability, but the glimmer in the air hinted at an incredible powerful defensive shield that would keep such a weakness from being exploited.

It still bore a similar layout to old canterlot, but nearly everything had been rebuilt or reinforced in some way or another, and while nearly everything bore some form of metallic structuring to it now, Canterlot's 'high class' expectations had pushed many to ensure that even with the metallic focus is stayed 'appealing'. Someponies had made their living off of devising imaginative ways to shape and style the metal to look fancy without weakening it's integrity, resulting in everything from standard buildings with polished colorful appearances, to other structures that appeared as complex objects turned into structures that gleamed in the sun-light, even one that looked to be made entirely out of 'nets' of shiny materials.

This was inner canterlot of course, grand advancements in mana-science have lead to some incredible feats.

Outer Canterlot could be described as a collection of technological construction, from the actual 'wall' that is clearly just for show, to the 'floaters' that gravitate around it, small city-like structures on tremendous circular hovering foundation, roughly half a dozen connected by teleporters and air transit.
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<<Hmph, It's too bright for my tastes...>
<Yes, Too bright><Hive structures are much more efficient><Easily repaired or replaced too><More appealing><Why use metal when Structurally advanced Chitin is even more durable?><There's a reason they wanted so much of 'our' methods used on their fancy long range ship.><Our own are way more efficient!><But we are allies, must share><Yes, Improve eachother><We've advanced thanks to their help just as much.>>

It suddenly Occurred to Vastu... Once he was in space, he wouldn't be able to listen to a legion of responses like this anymore... compared to Hundreds of thousands in communication, half a dozen was going to feel lonely, even as the center of those minds, even with ponies along to talk to 'Man... that's a depressing thought... Why did this come up so suddenly?' He found himself actually more 'annoyed' than sad, annoyed that he was so suddenly distracted by something he thought he'd gotten over already, it took no small amount of training to prepare a changeling for anytime they wouldn't be able to connect the main hive-mind.

His internal complaints were cut off suddenly as Twilight's path lead the group 'in' to a building, passing through a large Iris like door to the interior of a domed structure, several miniature towers with mana crystals floating atop them, all linked together by a complex magical array on the ground... He grumbled internally 'Damn... Mass teleport...' he didn't particularly like it, he'd gotten past vomiting everytime he was zipped from point A to Point B, but it still sent a wave of nausea into the link.

Of course, Twilight led the group quietly into the center of the array, then waited a moment... and quite suddenly in the next moment with barely noticeable magic distortions they found themselves in a different dome, denoted mainly through a variation of colors and the shape of the array... all very complicated stuff that most wouldn't even bother trying to learn about, much less 'understand'.

Beyond the receiving dome was a small city-like zone that would better be labeled as a populated Launch pad, Consisting of a massive reinforced flat area surrounded by smaller buildings that houses materials and staff to deal with everything from simple repairs and refueling to out-right construction of new ships. The main expanse was a tremendous flat surface with patterned lights that could easily park one of the small floating cities, they had to work on em 'somewhere' right?, surrounded by a ring of buildings ranging from simple housing or storage space to Teleporter domes and Warehouses that held larger materials and vehicles.

There were a number of things immediately obvious as the group was lead out of the receiving dome. [feel free to add in your own pertaining to your characters =3]

'someone' clearly had advance notice that the group would be arriving at this particular place, as a number of things were prepared and waiting for them, not the least of which included at least one of every species present as a representative, several constructs of various types, and a veritable sea of on-lookers that were keeping a grand distance from the first contact party... some might have wanted to run them off, but ultimately it was felt they would give a greater example of good intentions if what appeared to be unarmed civilians were present to observe... and if they were en-dangered, all the more reason to not hold back in defense.

For Vastu, the first to notice was a very familiar golem-esque Mana-tech Construct, differentiating from the standard model By having a darker blue coating, along with seemingly more threatening red 'eye-lights' allover it's face plate. It still had the Lunar Emblem on it's chest, though it's flanks were adorned with a stylized Red eye bearing a green lightning bolt for it's pupil. On it's back sat a Custom and Deliciously high powered 'M.A.C.'[Mana-powered Auto Cannon], The stock model used an Artillery level of weapon but he felt that was a bit excessive for everything 'he' might need it for.

Within moments he'd buzzed right over to it and gotten right into a typical once over to ensure nothing had been messed up while it was moved, clearly losing focus on the rest of the situation... He also found his 'personal equipment' in a sack hanging from the base of the gun, not the healthiest thing to a long weapon like that, but whatever, and was soon busying himself stuffing into his Disruption suit.

Elsewhere Princess Twilight was joined by what was clearly some type of 'personal assistance construct', an impressively high quality Pegasus model whose wings were formed of solidified mana emissions, essentially letting them be use for both defense and melee, in addition to other unknown features that can only be imagined of a Princesses assistant.

More importantly, perhaps, was the large purple dragon with which she exchanged greetings, hardly 'full sized' yet, but easily several times 'her' size regardless, yes he was anything but the stereotypical aggressive... Just about everyone has heard of spike of course.

They carried on a fairly private conversation for a while, giving the others present time to go through whatever had been brought for them and to settle for a moment... After a couple of minutes though she'd seem to just suddenly 'be' ontop of spike's muzzle, putting her at a considerably raised vantage point to from which to address everyone present.

[warning, I SUCK AT SPEECHES TnT if you can come up with a more 'twilight' speech, by all means, feel free to share it XD]

She gave a sharp whistle suddenly to make sure she got everyone's attention "Alright Everypony, and every'one'... This is a once in a life time occasion, to be the first to greet visitors from beyond our system! We're all here to make history today, for better or worse... It's very likely that our communication methods will be considerably different, so I'll need our translators to be especially active and everyone else 'patient' while we try to carry out the miracle of translating a whole language in 'minutes'." There was a group of changelings who suddenly looked especially attentive, no small feat considering they lookd mostly like normal drones save for being different colors, and spread out around the group of individuals.

"I realize that some of us are quite imposing, but we want to make this as peaceful a contact as possible... That said, the potential for the opposite cannot be ignore, so stay on your hooves and keep a sharp eye on them... We are also aware of the potential for unrelated threats to have followed them here, so just about everywhere in equestria and beyond is going to be on high alert just in-case, so we are free to focus fully on this encounter... I'll do most of the talking while the translators are at work, or who knows, maybe they'll already have a faster method of translation!... Now, everyone get ready, if everything has been calculated correctly, they should be arriving soon!"