Among the many who were gathered for the first encounter of alien, non Equis life forms was Equis's very own highly advanced artificial intelligences. the Spectral Ether Equestrian Constructs. SEECs. There wes a good few dozen of them spread about in various stations. They took the shapes many ponies of different shapes and breeds and sizes. SEECs were a wonder of equestrian science, made to be technician golems in the harshness of space they found that heir utility as technicians and interceptors of hostile tech and magic was invaluable in countless situations. Each one made of a set of floating orbs that projected a ethereal construct as their body. While they did not need these to perform their primary functions here the advanced AIs were self away and more often than not preferred to resemble and stand among their creators. 

They had two primary objectives here. They were to use their advanced AI's and hi processing powers to run encryption and deciphering programs on every bit of language spoken. The goal to get a working understanding of their language as quickly as possible. They were excellent data and analysis tools, each one here was firing up a different form of translator .Communication was key, and the sooner proper communication was established the less like hood something would go terrible wrong. Neither side had done anything to really be called specious...yet. But history showed that sometimes the foes of equestria would march right through its doors in the guise of a friend. 

Then there was the secondary function the group of AI had prepared for this meeting. Defense. The same generates in their varied cores that made them solid bodies rather than projected holograms were also able to produce some potent shields. Even strong still if they temporarily give up form of their bodies projections and revert to a loose collection of floating orbs. With the group of A class SEECs gathered here working together to produce shielding, all top of the line in one way or another, it could likely withstand most forms of known attack. But they were dealing with the unknown now. Nothing was certain. That's what Seeker thought at least, and the few AI's who were nerves enough to join her in wireless conversation agreed.

Similar to the Hive mind of a changeling, it was quite an simple task for multiple SEECs to link their communicate to one another thorough wireless networks. Though it seemed only the younger ones were engaging in that information sharing at the moment. Perhaps the more developed seeks were better focused at the task at hand. The young AI's seemed to need the comfort of one another's company.

Seeker, probable the youngest SEEC here, only with two space tours under her belt she was still in the first steps of actualization. She had decided her gender, her appearance, and was starting to develop quit the personality. Among one of the newer, higher-lined models present. The AIs' were all in full projected form, their translucent, glowing bodies standing out among crowd. Seeker's projected form was that of a Minty green earth pony, her main flowing and blue, her eyes a shining lavender. She was still attempting to process if this was positive or negative. Contact with another race from another world was truly fascinating. But if they came in war, She was honestly not sure of the Equstrian race's chances. They clearly had control of that one object they had found deep in the Equis solar system. It was impossible to tell where or how they arrived exactly in this system, but they knew that odd device was involved. There was all the reason to believe they would be millennia ahead in technology or magic. Assuming they had the latter of course. 

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Captain Silver Lining stood among the ranks of the military ready for the first contact. occasionally barking a command to infantry under his command. Most of his squad had been but on crowd detail, ready to defend and usher the civilians away if things went poorly with this first contact. Princess Twilight was far more optimistic than most of his men or fellow officers were. Hell, she was more so than even him personally and as his cutie mark suggested He was good at finding the good in bad situations. 

Perhaps it was simply thinking with his military trained mind but he was positive that one way or another this would go wrong. Perhaps it was because there were so many ways it could go wrong. The complete lack of a common language would make a mutual understating tense. 

There was also the trouble of cultural differences, conflicts had begun in the ancient past due to petty differences in two nations culture and way of thinking. 

There was also the popular theory among the more paranoid soldiers that this was the same kind of first contact that less advanced cultures in history got from an exploratory race. The natives that encountered Christerhoof Columbus hadn't gotten off so well, contact of foreign explorers was often the first step in total civilization collapse, Who was to say they'd fare any better.

It was the job of Silver as well as the other commanding officers to keep everypony focused rather than wasting their energy on useless conjecture...but it was also their job to keep such outcomes in mind. The defense of the princess was a priority. He looked around to pick out other notable captains present, they were all in their full and best combat armor.