[center][color=steelblue][h1]Astral Gleam[/h1][/color]
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It worked! Well, sort of. He couldn't understand everything, but this was definitely a good start. It sounded like they wanted to study the area, or maybe the planet as a whole? Well, Astral had no authority to speak for the whole of Equestria. But he knew enough about how the Princesses operated to make an educated guess. And so that was what he did, "Our rulers decide." he said, his statement likely sounding like a combination of words and whinnies, "But very kind. Value friendship greatly." that was when he decided to introduce himself... or at least try to, "Name Astral Gleam, wish no harm. Astronomer, study stars." along with that last bit he projected a basic image of his Observatory home in the Crystal Empire. Perhaps that and the few words that were getting through was enough to convey his profession and field of expertise to the visitor.

"Saw crash through telescope." he used his magic to hold up his handheld telescope to indicate how he spotted the falling ship, "Thought meteorite, came investigate-" suddenly there were tremors in the ground that interrupted him. Astral looked back behind him in the direction of the Castle. His eyes widened as he saw a number of things that were abnormal even for his world. First of all, the sun looked to be rising sooner than it was supposed to be, either that or Princess Luna was for some reason late to lower the moon. Either explanation was a bad sign. The last time anything like this had happened was a thousand years ago when Luna became Nightmare Moon. But surely neither of the Princesses would allow that to happen, wouldn't they? Secondly a shadowy dome erupted from and then encapsulated the Castle of the Two Sisters. Some old magical defense mechanism, perhaps? The crash of the nearby ship did damage the Castle a bit.

"Not good possible danger!" Astral suddenly said, putting away his belongings and taking a step forward. He stopped however and offered a look at the nearby visitor, "...Investigate?" he wasn't normally so keen on working with others. In fact, had they been ponies he would have just taken off without a word. But he was still curious about the visitors. He wanted to know what they were capable of, and a potentially dangerous situation might be the way to learn such a thing. Was it manipulative? Yes, a little bit. But Astral Gleam had never once claimed to be totally benevolent either.