[center][h1][color=Firebrick]Q-T Brackman[/color][/h1][/center]

Q-T did her deputy and held the tablet out for the dragon to communicate with her captain, looking only a little agog that the captain didn't even need the translation software apparently, which added ‘secret conspiracy’ onto the list of possible reasons things were so messed up. Or it was just a coincidence that she spoke… Q-T managed to stop herself from spiraling any further by checking the captain’s history and realizing that her speaking Indonesian was accounted for in her background, and this was probably a coincidence. Probably. Probably…

Also as someone with a (newly downloaded) third form of understanding of the language, she could tell that the pair’s versions were fairly heavily mismatched, which pushed things further into the weird coincidence territory, though she wasn't ruling out anything. Anyway, while the bot was busy acting as a tablet nightstand and hypothesizing to herself, the captain and the dragon talked a fair bit and effectively bumps things up the dragon’s chain of command as well, resulting in the other two dragons leaving while Galmira stayed behind. 

Then the Captain’s line dropped quite suddenly.

[color=Firebrick]”um…”[/color] Q-T said as both of them became a touch confused as to what had happened. [color=Firebrick]”Let me just”[/color] Q-T said before pinging the com’s officer with questions again and being caught up to speed with the plan. 

[color=Firebrick]”oh, ok so we’re going to set up a meeting place for you”[/color] she informed the dragon, before glancing back and seeing some of the EVA crew hesitantly poking their heads out of an airlock to see if the dragon was gone, and then gesturing to each other while they decided where to set up the requested tent.


[color=Firebrick]”So, ah, let's start heading over? I can ask them to bring you something to eat and/or drink if you want?”[/color] she asked, which got them into a very light conversation about their culture’s/world's various kinds of food and drink, one made a touch awkward by Q-T not being able to offer anything other than an academic understanding of such things when it came to anything other than Ai-lcohol, which carried them till they parted ways and the dragon stepped away to meet the captain in person.

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A few minutes later they’d set up the outdoor meeting spot. As setting up reception areas for diplomatic events was not something they had proper equipment for, said meeting spot ended up being an rapid assembly emergency shelter gussied up with various furnishings salvaged from whatever they had on hand. So basically from the closest available beak room. Long story short, while the tent would probably keep them alive and warm even if the planet's atmosphere suddenly fell off, it wasn't exactly the most auspicious of locals for humanity's first interaction with the representatives of an alien society. 

Q-T thought Ai kind’s first contact had had a much more fitting local frankly, and so she had that to be proud of and show off, something she got to do while the department heads had their slightly awkward meeting inside the tent. 

Having done their job setting up the meeting spot a fair number of astronauts found themselves mostly left to their own devices for the first time since the crash. This spot of unscheduled downtime resulted in the various half suited crew-mates gathering together on top of one of the large rovers (while keeping a few tablets monitoring the various deployed equipment on hand just in case they needed to react to an emergency) where they could do some dragon watching. That involved both keeping an eye out for the return of the ones sent away as messengers, and also watching a replay of Q-T’s own meeting with Galmira, which got the undivided attention of each and every one of them. 

Well all except Neilsy who kept taking envious glances at the captain’s jetbike, which was currently hovering next to her own bike. Or rather looming over it thanks to Almira’s heavily armed steed being two too three times the size of the Astronaut's own ride.