UFA

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
He froze. "Y-your the... a-asteroid?" he asked, at this point being royally spooked.

Drakador_Chaos

MaxwellCharlie
...the being scratched it´s chin, then it... shrugged?

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
He stopped and thought. By now he was acting less spooked. "Is that the o-only way you can communicate?" asked he, this time only stuttering once.

Drakador_Chaos

MaxwellCharlie
...the being literally did a facepalm, then it opened it´s mouth but no words came out, only what seemed to resembling deep statics, then it shrugged again...

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
He nodded. "Okay, okay..." He paused. "Well, erm, in that case, I'll just ask yes or no questions." He thought for a moment. "Are you friendly?"

Drakador_Chaos

MaxwellCharlie
...he heard some more faint static, then, for the first time a clear voice, still accompanied by the sounds of crackling electricity, but at least some progress...
"Vocal samples gathered, now attempting to reconstruct speech patterns...That entirely depends on you, we did not fire first after all."

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
He seemed to react more relaxed now. "Oh mate, we thought that this was just an asteroid! Not... well, you." He paused. "Wait, we?"

Drakador_Chaos

MaxwellCharlie
...the being looked serious, "Yes, "we", I am not the only one that has been sleeping within this ark."
...then his expression changed to a rather confused one..."Though why would a civilization attempt to mine a lone asteroid in outer space...?"

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
"Well, this... 'Ark' of yours is on'a collision course mate, right towards planet BA-73756-9. If 'yed crashed, I'd bet that 'ye wouldn't be all that alive, mate." He then explained what had just happened with all the readings and the strange things.

Drakador_Chaos

MaxwellCharlie
...the being seemed to be considerable less confused now, he walked up and down a few times, scratching it´s chin and waving his arm around as if theorizing about different possibilities...
...then he walked back to the liquid core and tapped into it for a few minutes and returned to the Avellaturi afterwards...
"Well, let me enlighten you. This ark has been essentially searching for a new homeworld after the destruction of our old one, in fact this... (he points at the surrounding walls) ...is, or was, a part of our old homeworld, we hollowed out the core of a chunk of our planet and traveled with it through space, for a long, long time. When we had finally found a planet, which would be at least suitable resource wise, we redirected the ark at the planet, the effects of the crash would´ve been negliegible, we did not expect it would be already inhabited though."
...he sighed...
"Which brings us to our next problem, we currently lack the energy to change course again."

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
He was in awe. "Well I'll be damned..." he paused. "Hold on a moment, 'k mate?" He spoke into his arm transmitter, explaining the situation. By the sounds of things, the Avellaturi on the other end were amazed. There was a reply from the other side, but to the strange being, it was illegible. The Avellaturi looked up. "Well, mate, I've some good news, but y'need t'make a choice, mate. Y'can stay on that planet that you're headin' towards, albeit, you folk'd have't share it with m'peoples, or, if ye prefer, we might be able to redirect y'ark to a nearby moon of a gas giant, that has similar properties to th'planet y'headin' towards, mate." He paused. "I've a quetion though, mate. Where was y'homeworld, mate, and wha'was it like? We might be able to, if given enough time, be able t'do a quick terraformin' of a world t'fit y'needs as best it can. And don't worry mate, that's our speciality, terraformin'. We've basically mastered it."

Drakador_Chaos

MaxwellCharlie
...he walked over to the liquid again, repeating the same process as before, when he pulled his arm out he started talking again... "...we would prefer a planet similar to the one we were aiming for. Though while the resources stay the same slightly less tropical climate might be preferable. Our homeplanet held large quantities of natural resources like minerals, rare metals and rare earth elements, you could probably scan this asteroid and would find out a considerable amount of information about it´s former make-up."

RedAndCosmoteer

(Are you still here, MaxwellCharlie?)

RedAndCosmoteer

MaxwellCharlie The UFA detects a large object flying at the Furnacia Dwarf Galaxy. It does bear similarities to the ones of the Eontenvian Commonwealth, although the bumpy paintjob is replaced by a hex camoflage, and is armed not with their signature railguns but with lasers and plasma weaponry, and it doesn't seem to be using a space-folding technique but instead uses hyperspace.

Just a few moments after however, the signature disappears. Strange.

Drakador_Chaos

(@MaxwellCharlie )
...after several months a faint signal passed the asteroid that was sitting near the colony....
...the figure ahead of the Avellaturi, turned and seemed to...listen?
A few minutes later the figure nodded, it faced the Avellaturi and stretched out his arm, sending the visitor backwards out of the asteroid with a strong magnetical pulse...
The surface of the asteroid began to close again, while occassional magnetical pulses hinted towards something going on inside...

Drakador_Chaos

(@MaxwellCharlie )
...a few days after the odd incident, a large ship...if it could be called like this...dropped out of ftl in range of the large asteroid, without any transmissions or words of explanation it headed straight towards it, it had a shining metallic core at it´s center which had the shape of a perfect sphere, with large chunks of rock around it which had apparently ship systems embedded into them, several pulses of magnetic waves erupted from the core and the asteroid answered with more pulses, were they...communicating?
A few minutes later the large rock segment detached from the sphere, and attached themselves to the asteroid in two rings around it roughly around the ends, then the core headed towards the asteroid and started changing shape, forming yet another ring around the asteroid between the first two...
Then, thinsg went rather quickly, a large torrent of energy started building up the rings and the core-rings started glowing in a blue-ish light and a few moments later...The asteroid was gone along with the odd ship...
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