VALKIAN

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[b]Nouvelle, Orbit[/b]
The two Valkian capital ships in orbit, seeing the Eternal Union people and the Human and Septonians, moved into flanking positions to the Human ship. All they sent was binary into what would be translated into the DNA structure of a plant that would cause passiveness and calm into any who ingested it, and a holographic messages depicting the three ships working as friends against an unknown foe. They couldn't speak to them directly, due to a lack of translators, but they could get their point across through other ways. 

The Explorer locked half of its active sensors on the different shuttles moving to the ground, and the other half on the incoming Eternal Union ships. Shortly afterwards, the Varren locked all active sensors on the Eternal Union ships. In a way, it was saying that they were being targeted, more or less. They were watching them extremely closely. The Explorer then sent out a beamed holographic message to the shuttles, and to their mother ships, depicting several scenarios. Some were where the Eternal Union fired on either the Septonians, the Humans, Valkians, or the Nouvellians, and went on to show the three human and Valkian ships destroy the Eternal Union ones, and showing that the times when the Eternal Union retreated and took their shuttles back were the times when the Valkian and human ships stood down. They sent the same thing to the Humans, so that they could understand what they meant, and their intentions for different scenarios. Beamed again, just to the humans, was a plan- Eternal Union fired on anyone, the Explorer would follow on the human's ship closest to the Eternal Union, essentially offering to be a wall for them, while the Varren retreated, and fired on them as well.

The Valkians weren't sure why they were to be protecting the planet, but it was their charge now, and their small exploration fleet commander wouldn't be happy if they didn't follow his orders.

[b]Nouvelle, Queen Sabine's Palace[/b]
The Engineer Valkian turned to the agitated human, trying to gesture with its hands for several moments. It gave up, threw its arms into the air, and paced nervously behind the chair of the Tinkerer, while the Hunter looked more like he'd kill anyone who came close. After a few moments when the Engineer began pacing, the Hunter's readied stance, suggesting that he'd come close to violence, slackened, as the Tinkerer's body fell into less of a limp, dazed form into a more stabile, simply unconscious state. Then, he stepped back. He studied the worried alien for a moment, picking up its mood, and then gestured to it to be welcome to try and help the unconscious Valkian. While Hunters were not particularly smart, simply just clever and trained, good at fighting and tactics, and little else, they were smart enough to know that they were not suited for this situation, and everything the Tinkerer had done thus far, and everything he had told him, was that the Eternal Union were the ones to be kept away, not the 'Humans.'

The Hunter liked the 'Eternal Union' even less, now. The "Lord Tinkerer" had translated everything that had been said for them, and it appeared that despite saying that they were a peaceful, helpful race, the Eternal Union did nothing when an alien race fell to the floor, unconscious. The Hunter's small mind darkened with anger, but he made no move. His superiors, including his charge, the Tinkerer, would hear of this!