[centre][h2]Sumiye King – Acting Chief Engineer[/h2][/centre]

Where did all of its mass go?

With everything that she had just witnessed you would assume that Sumiye would have more questions than that, more things going through her head at the discovery of sentient life on this random rock as well as the revelation that said life was both [i]magical[/i] and apparently Indonesian. Really though, it was mostly the mystery of where the rest of the dragon had gone when it transformed into the woman that was occupying her attention right now.

Large flying lizards with the ability to speak? Nothing too strange there; nobody ever said that mammalians were the only ones who could develop sentience and while humans were still relatively new to the whole space travel things but the whole point of an exploratory mission such as this was that you expected, even hoped to find other life in the universe.

Big lizard aliens. No problem.

Inhabitants of a previous undiscovered and unexplored world looking suspiciously similar to humans and having a language similar to one of Earth’s own? Sure, that was strange… that was extremely strange, but likely had an explanation; none came to mind, but one had to exist. She remembered a time back in college, years ago now, when she had had a drunken conversation with a linguistics major about how languages developed, both in parallel to each other and separate from each other. A few more drinks in that then led to a long rambling tangent about theoretical alien languages and how they could potentially develop in such a way as to be similar to any one of the hundreds or thousands of languages present on Earth; she had been fun, and her eyes were pretty enough that Sumiye had stuck around to listen to the whole thing. Unfortunately most of her memories of that conversation and the rest of the night were lost to time and too much vodka, but the idea that it could happen was still there.

These aliens apparently spoke something close enough to Indonesian that the captain could converse with them.

The captain would continue to converse with them in fact, as she requested that Sumiye set up a meeting place for them outside the ship where they could talk. Easily achieved, though not by herself. Pulling out her screen again she quickly typed out a request to Air Officer Ilyina to request some extra hands to setup the tent and tables required; she was in charge of all things flight deck and hangar related and as such was in responsible for deploying the EVA crews assigned to help in that part of the ship right now. The EVA team could handle setting up a camp and they were really best qualified to move around in these high mountainous conditions in the first place and Ilyina would know who could be spared and who couldn’t.

[color=fff200]“Aye, aye captain; the meeting place will be setup by the time this elder dragon arrives. Do you need me for anything else.”[/color]

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