As the first of the contact team reached the airlock at the end of the tunnel, it opened. The cycling room within was large enough for three bulky human-sized individuals to stand in, though cramped. Cycling would not be an issue however, the pressurized tunnel sealing the contact team in and preventing them exiting into the void. So the interior airlock opens as well, and bright lights shine on the boarders. The room was large and empty, a featureless white room. 

If the boarders enter, the airlock seals behind them and the pressure tunnel will retract from the corvette. Either way, the [i]Jetha[/i] maintains course, and a soft but raspy voice emits from a camera speaker in one of the upper corners of the room, punctuated with the clicks and hisses common in the Jhingese language.

"Visitors, we welcome you. Please, enter."

Standing out in the message is the 'you', spoken in the best representation of the alkay tongue the creature could manage, clearly identifiable by the pause before and after. Whether or not the correct word was used to replace 'you' remained to be seen.