2438: Hello
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First Scheduled: June 12, 2438
By. Shelley Field We always wondered. Since striking out into the universe, we felt awfully alone. Through discoveries of jump-points, alien systems, it felt awfully lonely in the Black. Now everything changes. Because now we know.
At approximately 3:13 SET, Vernon Tar, a thirty-six year old Explorer, was scanning for undiscovered jump-points in the Davien System. Drifting through the Black with only the hum of his deep-range scanners to keep him company, Tar suddenly got a hit.
“When you’re in the quiet for that long, any kind of ping scares the hell out of you for a second,” Tar relayed via DataCom, “so I checked my display and, well, it wasn’t a jump-point.”
It was a ship. Initially thinking it was simply another Explorer or a lost vessel, Tar barely acknowledged it.
“I almost didn’t want to look at it. I was sure it was some other Jumper out here, looking for the same thing as me.” Only when the ship drew closer, did he realize what he was looking at; the first member of an alien race. “After I got over my shock, I knew it was a delicate situation. We just stared at each other for a while.”
Tar contacted UNE SOC and relayed his coordinates. A delegation party was quickly assembled and rushed out to the scene. Military forces were on hand in case they turned out to be hostile. The meeting lasted about forty minutes. UNE forces were left to wait for a response from the Alien Race.
Scientists are currently scrambling to devise programs to facilitate translation and communication but after millennia of civilization, we can all say that we handled First Contact with the grace and dignity of a truly advanced race. From here, now we know for sure that there’s another race out there, another civilization to share and grow with.
Incident Report
Submitted to H-SOC Central
Author: GEN Neal Socolovich
Authorized Users Only
Re: Alien Contact
At approximately 3:00 this afternoon, first contact was established with an alien civilization in the Davien system. Here is an outline of what happened: Vernon Tar was searching the system for jump-points when his systems picked up a Contact. Assuming it was just another explorer, he opened fire before realizing that it was, in fact, an alien vessel. He got scared and called it in. We isolated the Comm to keep a lid on the situation and rushed to the scene as quick as we could and immediately enacted standard containment protocol and media-blacks.
As best as we could tell, the alien [hereafter JERRY] seemed shaken up and annoyed at being fired upon by Tar. We didn’t want to press the issue so we tried to calm Jerry down using pantomime techniques. Immediately notified the TECH-Div to start working on some kind of translation device. Jerry let them record some of his language. We also ran cursory scans of his ships. Nothing overt as did not want to arouse suspicion but Data is attached.
We’ve released some info to the press and used one of our personnel to pose as Tar for the interview to make sure he toed the line. We don’t think Tar will be a problem. We bluntly explained to him that if he keeps quiet, he gets to be the hero who made first contact rather than the idiot who nearly sparked the first interstellar war. Tar understood.
In the meantime, we deployed Scan-Arrays to Davien to keep an eye out but will anticipate more contact in the coming days or weeks. I’m sure they’re probably just as curious as us. They were curious. Two weeks later, an alien delegation appeared in the Davien System and established contact with Socolovich. Over the next few months, the two races worked to break through the communication barrier. When we could finally interact, we learned that they were the Banu. A collective race of planet-states who had also just started to explore the universe.
In October of 2438, Socolovich and the other delegates signed the first Interstellar Peace and Trade Accord with the Banu.
First Scheduled: June 12, 2438
By. Shelley Field We always wondered. Since striking out into the universe, we felt awfully alone. Through discoveries of jump-points, alien systems, it felt awfully lonely in the Black. Now everything changes. Because now we know.
At approximately 3:13 SET, Vernon Tar, a thirty-six year old Explorer, was scanning for undiscovered jump-points in the Davien System. Drifting through the Black with only the hum of his deep-range scanners to keep him company, Tar suddenly got a hit.
“When you’re in the quiet for that long, any kind of ping scares the hell out of you for a second,” Tar relayed via DataCom, “so I checked my display and, well, it wasn’t a jump-point.”
It was a ship. Initially thinking it was simply another Explorer or a lost vessel, Tar barely acknowledged it.
“I almost didn’t want to look at it. I was sure it was some other Jumper out here, looking for the same thing as me.” Only when the ship drew closer, did he realize what he was looking at; the first member of an alien race. “After I got over my shock, I knew it was a delicate situation. We just stared at each other for a while.”
Tar contacted UNE SOC and relayed his coordinates. A delegation party was quickly assembled and rushed out to the scene. Military forces were on hand in case they turned out to be hostile. The meeting lasted about forty minutes. UNE forces were left to wait for a response from the Alien Race.
Scientists are currently scrambling to devise programs to facilitate translation and communication but after millennia of civilization, we can all say that we handled First Contact with the grace and dignity of a truly advanced race. From here, now we know for sure that there’s another race out there, another civilization to share and grow with.
Incident Report
Submitted to H-SOC Central
Author: GEN Neal Socolovich
Authorized Users Only
Re: Alien Contact
At approximately 3:00 this afternoon, first contact was established with an alien civilization in the Davien system. Here is an outline of what happened: Vernon Tar was searching the system for jump-points when his systems picked up a Contact. Assuming it was just another explorer, he opened fire before realizing that it was, in fact, an alien vessel. He got scared and called it in. We isolated the Comm to keep a lid on the situation and rushed to the scene as quick as we could and immediately enacted standard containment protocol and media-blacks.
As best as we could tell, the alien [hereafter JERRY] seemed shaken up and annoyed at being fired upon by Tar. We didn’t want to press the issue so we tried to calm Jerry down using pantomime techniques. Immediately notified the TECH-Div to start working on some kind of translation device. Jerry let them record some of his language. We also ran cursory scans of his ships. Nothing overt as did not want to arouse suspicion but Data is attached.
We’ve released some info to the press and used one of our personnel to pose as Tar for the interview to make sure he toed the line. We don’t think Tar will be a problem. We bluntly explained to him that if he keeps quiet, he gets to be the hero who made first contact rather than the idiot who nearly sparked the first interstellar war. Tar understood.
In the meantime, we deployed Scan-Arrays to Davien to keep an eye out but will anticipate more contact in the coming days or weeks. I’m sure they’re probably just as curious as us. They were curious. Two weeks later, an alien delegation appeared in the Davien System and established contact with Socolovich. Over the next few months, the two races worked to break through the communication barrier. When we could finally interact, we learned that they were the Banu. A collective race of planet-states who had also just started to explore the universe.
In October of 2438, Socolovich and the other delegates signed the first Interstellar Peace and Trade Accord with the Banu.
German
United Times/Tribune NewsOrg Archiv
Erstmalig geplant: 12. Juni 2438
By. Shelley Field Wir haben uns immer gefragt. Seit wir ins Universum aufgebrochen sind, fühlten wir uns schrecklich allein. Durch die Entdeckung von Sprungbrettern, fremden Systemen, fühlte es sich im Schwarzen schrecklich einsam an. Jetzt ändert sich alles. Weil wir es jetzt wissen.
Um etwa 3:13 Uhr SET scannte Vernon Tar, ein sechsunddreißig Jahre alter Explorer, nach unentdeckten Sprungbrettpunkten im Davien-System. Tar trieb mit dem Brummen seiner Tiefreichweitenscanner durch das Schwarze, um ihm Gesellschaft zu leisten, und bekam plötzlich einen Treffer.
"Wenn man so lange in der Stille ist, macht einem jeder Ping eine Sekunde lang Angst", teilte Tar über DataCom mit, "also habe ich meinen Bildschirm überprüft und, naja, es war kein Sprungpunkt."
Es war ein Schiff. Ursprünglich dachte er, es sei nur ein weiterer Entdecker oder ein verlorenes Schiff, und Tar bestätigte es kaum.
"Ich wollte es mir fast nicht ansehen. Ich war mir sicher, dass es ein anderer Jumper hier draußen war, der nach dem Gleichen suchte wie ich." Erst als das Schiff näher kam, erkannte er, was er ansah; das erste Mitglied einer außerirdischen Rasse. "Nachdem ich meinen Schock überwunden hatte, wusste ich, dass es eine heikle Situation war. Wir starrten uns nur eine Weile an."
Tar kontaktierte UNE SOC und gab seine Koordinaten weiter. Eine Delegationspartei wurde schnell zusammengestellt und eilte zum Tatort. Militärische Kräfte waren vor Ort, falls sie sich als feindlich erwiesen. Das Treffen dauerte etwa vierzig Minuten. Die UNE-Truppen mussten auf eine Antwort der Alien-Rasse warten.
Wissenschaftler krabbeln derzeit darum, Programme zu entwickeln, um Übersetzung und Kommunikation zu erleichtern, aber nach Jahrtausenden der Zivilisation können wir alle sagen, dass wir den Ersten Kontakt mit der Gnade und Würde einer wirklich fortgeschrittenen Rasse gehandhabt haben. Von hier aus wissen wir jetzt mit Sicherheit, dass es eine weitere Rasse gibt, eine andere Zivilisation, mit der wir teilen und wachsen können.
Vorfallsbericht
Eingereicht bei H-SOC Central
Autor: GEN Neal Socolovich
Nur für autorisierte Benutzer
Re: Alien-Kontakt
Gegen 15:00 Uhr wurde der erste Kontakt mit einer fremden Zivilisation im Davien-System hergestellt. Hier ist ein Überblick darüber, was passiert ist: Vernon Tar suchte das System nach Sprungbrettern, als seine Systeme einen Kontakt aufnahmen. Angenommen, es war nur ein weiterer Entdecker, eröffnete er das Feuer, bevor er erkannte, dass es sich tatsächlich um ein außerirdisches Schiff handelte. Er bekam Angst und meldete es. Wir isolierten den Comm, um die Situation im Auge zu behalten, und eilten so schnell wie möglich zum Tatort und verabschiedeten sofort ein Standardprotokoll zur Eindämmung und Medienbrüche.
So gut wir konnten, schien der Außerirdische[später JERRY] erschüttert und verärgert darüber, von Tar beschossen zu werden. Wir wollten nicht auf das Problem eingehen, also versuchten wir, Jerry mit Pantomimetechniken zu beruhigen. Sofort die TECH-Div benachrichtigt, um mit der Arbeit an einer Art Übersetzungsgerät zu beginnen. Jerry ließ sie etwas von seiner Sprache aufnehmen. Wir haben auch flüchtige Scans seiner Schiffe durchgeführt. Nichts offen, was nicht den Verdacht wecken wollte, aber Data ist angehängt.
Wir haben einige Informationen an die Presse weitergegeben und einen unserer Mitarbeiter eingesetzt, um als Tar für das Interview zu posieren, um sicherzustellen, dass er die Linie betreten hat. Wir glauben nicht, dass Tar ein Problem sein wird. Wir erklärten ihm unverblümt, dass, wenn er schweigt, er der Held sein wird, der den ersten Kontakt hergestellt hat, und nicht der Idiot, der fast den ersten interstellaren Krieg ausgelöst hätte. Tar hat verstanden.
In der Zwischenzeit haben wir Scan-Arrays bei Davien eingesetzt, um die Augen offen zu halten, werden aber in den nächsten Tagen oder Wochen mehr Kontakt erwarten. Ich bin sicher, sie sind wahrscheinlich genauso neugierig wie wir.
Sie waren neugierig. Zwei Wochen später erschien eine ausländische Delegation im Davien-System und stellte den Kontakt zu Socolovich her. In den nächsten Monaten arbeiteten die beiden Rennen daran, die Kommunikationsbarriere zu durchbrechen. Als wir endlich interagieren konnten, erfuhren wir, dass es die Banu waren. Eine kollektive Rasse von Planetenstaaten, die auch gerade erst begonnen hatte, das Universum zu erforschen.
Im Oktober 2438 unterzeichneten Socolovich und die anderen Delegierten das erste Interstellare Friedens- und Handelsabkommen mit der Banu.
Erstmalig geplant: 12. Juni 2438
By. Shelley Field Wir haben uns immer gefragt. Seit wir ins Universum aufgebrochen sind, fühlten wir uns schrecklich allein. Durch die Entdeckung von Sprungbrettern, fremden Systemen, fühlte es sich im Schwarzen schrecklich einsam an. Jetzt ändert sich alles. Weil wir es jetzt wissen.
Um etwa 3:13 Uhr SET scannte Vernon Tar, ein sechsunddreißig Jahre alter Explorer, nach unentdeckten Sprungbrettpunkten im Davien-System. Tar trieb mit dem Brummen seiner Tiefreichweitenscanner durch das Schwarze, um ihm Gesellschaft zu leisten, und bekam plötzlich einen Treffer.
"Wenn man so lange in der Stille ist, macht einem jeder Ping eine Sekunde lang Angst", teilte Tar über DataCom mit, "also habe ich meinen Bildschirm überprüft und, naja, es war kein Sprungpunkt."
Es war ein Schiff. Ursprünglich dachte er, es sei nur ein weiterer Entdecker oder ein verlorenes Schiff, und Tar bestätigte es kaum.
"Ich wollte es mir fast nicht ansehen. Ich war mir sicher, dass es ein anderer Jumper hier draußen war, der nach dem Gleichen suchte wie ich." Erst als das Schiff näher kam, erkannte er, was er ansah; das erste Mitglied einer außerirdischen Rasse. "Nachdem ich meinen Schock überwunden hatte, wusste ich, dass es eine heikle Situation war. Wir starrten uns nur eine Weile an."
Tar kontaktierte UNE SOC und gab seine Koordinaten weiter. Eine Delegationspartei wurde schnell zusammengestellt und eilte zum Tatort. Militärische Kräfte waren vor Ort, falls sie sich als feindlich erwiesen. Das Treffen dauerte etwa vierzig Minuten. Die UNE-Truppen mussten auf eine Antwort der Alien-Rasse warten.
Wissenschaftler krabbeln derzeit darum, Programme zu entwickeln, um Übersetzung und Kommunikation zu erleichtern, aber nach Jahrtausenden der Zivilisation können wir alle sagen, dass wir den Ersten Kontakt mit der Gnade und Würde einer wirklich fortgeschrittenen Rasse gehandhabt haben. Von hier aus wissen wir jetzt mit Sicherheit, dass es eine weitere Rasse gibt, eine andere Zivilisation, mit der wir teilen und wachsen können.
Vorfallsbericht
Eingereicht bei H-SOC Central
Autor: GEN Neal Socolovich
Nur für autorisierte Benutzer
Re: Alien-Kontakt
Gegen 15:00 Uhr wurde der erste Kontakt mit einer fremden Zivilisation im Davien-System hergestellt. Hier ist ein Überblick darüber, was passiert ist: Vernon Tar suchte das System nach Sprungbrettern, als seine Systeme einen Kontakt aufnahmen. Angenommen, es war nur ein weiterer Entdecker, eröffnete er das Feuer, bevor er erkannte, dass es sich tatsächlich um ein außerirdisches Schiff handelte. Er bekam Angst und meldete es. Wir isolierten den Comm, um die Situation im Auge zu behalten, und eilten so schnell wie möglich zum Tatort und verabschiedeten sofort ein Standardprotokoll zur Eindämmung und Medienbrüche.
So gut wir konnten, schien der Außerirdische[später JERRY] erschüttert und verärgert darüber, von Tar beschossen zu werden. Wir wollten nicht auf das Problem eingehen, also versuchten wir, Jerry mit Pantomimetechniken zu beruhigen. Sofort die TECH-Div benachrichtigt, um mit der Arbeit an einer Art Übersetzungsgerät zu beginnen. Jerry ließ sie etwas von seiner Sprache aufnehmen. Wir haben auch flüchtige Scans seiner Schiffe durchgeführt. Nichts offen, was nicht den Verdacht wecken wollte, aber Data ist angehängt.
Wir haben einige Informationen an die Presse weitergegeben und einen unserer Mitarbeiter eingesetzt, um als Tar für das Interview zu posieren, um sicherzustellen, dass er die Linie betreten hat. Wir glauben nicht, dass Tar ein Problem sein wird. Wir erklärten ihm unverblümt, dass, wenn er schweigt, er der Held sein wird, der den ersten Kontakt hergestellt hat, und nicht der Idiot, der fast den ersten interstellaren Krieg ausgelöst hätte. Tar hat verstanden.
In der Zwischenzeit haben wir Scan-Arrays bei Davien eingesetzt, um die Augen offen zu halten, werden aber in den nächsten Tagen oder Wochen mehr Kontakt erwarten. Ich bin sicher, sie sind wahrscheinlich genauso neugierig wie wir.
Sie waren neugierig. Zwei Wochen später erschien eine ausländische Delegation im Davien-System und stellte den Kontakt zu Socolovich her. In den nächsten Monaten arbeiteten die beiden Rennen daran, die Kommunikationsbarriere zu durchbrechen. Als wir endlich interagieren konnten, erfuhren wir, dass es die Banu waren. Eine kollektive Rasse von Planetenstaaten, die auch gerade erst begonnen hatte, das Universum zu erforschen.
Im Oktober 2438 unterzeichneten Socolovich und die anderen Delegierten das erste Interstellare Friedens- und Handelsabkommen mit der Banu.
Chinese
United Times/Tribune NewsOrg Archive
First Scheduled: June 12, 2438
By. Shelley Field We always wondered. Since striking out into the universe, we felt awfully alone. Through discoveries of jump-points, alien systems, it felt awfully lonely in the Black. Now everything changes. Because now we know.
At approximately 3:13 SET, Vernon Tar, a thirty-six year old Explorer, was scanning for undiscovered jump-points in the Davien System. Drifting through the Black with only the hum of his deep-range scanners to keep him company, Tar suddenly got a hit.
“When you’re in the quiet for that long, any kind of ping scares the hell out of you for a second,” Tar relayed via DataCom, “so I checked my display and, well, it wasn’t a jump-point.”
It was a ship. Initially thinking it was simply another Explorer or a lost vessel, Tar barely acknowledged it.
“I almost didn’t want to look at it. I was sure it was some other Jumper out here, looking for the same thing as me.” Only when the ship drew closer, did he realize what he was looking at; the first member of an alien race. “After I got over my shock, I knew it was a delicate situation. We just stared at each other for a while.”
Tar contacted UNE SOC and relayed his coordinates. A delegation party was quickly assembled and rushed out to the scene. Military forces were on hand in case they turned out to be hostile. The meeting lasted about forty minutes. UNE forces were left to wait for a response from the Alien Race.
Scientists are currently scrambling to devise programs to facilitate translation and communication but after millennia of civilization, we can all say that we handled First Contact with the grace and dignity of a truly advanced race. From here, now we know for sure that there’s another race out there, another civilization to share and grow with.
Incident Report
Submitted to H-SOC Central
Author: GEN Neal Socolovich
Authorized Users Only
Re: Alien Contact
At approximately 3:00 this afternoon, first contact was established with an alien civilization in the Davien system. Here is an outline of what happened: Vernon Tar was searching the system for jump-points when his systems picked up a Contact. Assuming it was just another explorer, he opened fire before realizing that it was, in fact, an alien vessel. He got scared and called it in. We isolated the Comm to keep a lid on the situation and rushed to the scene as quick as we could and immediately enacted standard containment protocol and media-blacks.
As best as we could tell, the alien [hereafter JERRY] seemed shaken up and annoyed at being fired upon by Tar. We didn’t want to press the issue so we tried to calm Jerry down using pantomime techniques. Immediately notified the TECH-Div to start working on some kind of translation device. Jerry let them record some of his language. We also ran cursory scans of his ships. Nothing overt as did not want to arouse suspicion but Data is attached.
We’ve released some info to the press and used one of our personnel to pose as Tar for the interview to make sure he toed the line. We don’t think Tar will be a problem. We bluntly explained to him that if he keeps quiet, he gets to be the hero who made first contact rather than the idiot who nearly sparked the first interstellar war. Tar understood.
In the meantime, we deployed Scan-Arrays to Davien to keep an eye out but will anticipate more contact in the coming days or weeks. I’m sure they’re probably just as curious as us. They were curious. Two weeks later, an alien delegation appeared in the Davien System and established contact with Socolovich. Over the next few months, the two races worked to break through the communication barrier. When we could finally interact, we learned that they were the Banu. A collective race of planet-states who had also just started to explore the universe.
In October of 2438, Socolovich and the other delegates signed the first Interstellar Peace and Trade Accord with the Banu.
First Scheduled: June 12, 2438
By. Shelley Field We always wondered. Since striking out into the universe, we felt awfully alone. Through discoveries of jump-points, alien systems, it felt awfully lonely in the Black. Now everything changes. Because now we know.
At approximately 3:13 SET, Vernon Tar, a thirty-six year old Explorer, was scanning for undiscovered jump-points in the Davien System. Drifting through the Black with only the hum of his deep-range scanners to keep him company, Tar suddenly got a hit.
“When you’re in the quiet for that long, any kind of ping scares the hell out of you for a second,” Tar relayed via DataCom, “so I checked my display and, well, it wasn’t a jump-point.”
It was a ship. Initially thinking it was simply another Explorer or a lost vessel, Tar barely acknowledged it.
“I almost didn’t want to look at it. I was sure it was some other Jumper out here, looking for the same thing as me.” Only when the ship drew closer, did he realize what he was looking at; the first member of an alien race. “After I got over my shock, I knew it was a delicate situation. We just stared at each other for a while.”
Tar contacted UNE SOC and relayed his coordinates. A delegation party was quickly assembled and rushed out to the scene. Military forces were on hand in case they turned out to be hostile. The meeting lasted about forty minutes. UNE forces were left to wait for a response from the Alien Race.
Scientists are currently scrambling to devise programs to facilitate translation and communication but after millennia of civilization, we can all say that we handled First Contact with the grace and dignity of a truly advanced race. From here, now we know for sure that there’s another race out there, another civilization to share and grow with.
Incident Report
Submitted to H-SOC Central
Author: GEN Neal Socolovich
Authorized Users Only
Re: Alien Contact
At approximately 3:00 this afternoon, first contact was established with an alien civilization in the Davien system. Here is an outline of what happened: Vernon Tar was searching the system for jump-points when his systems picked up a Contact. Assuming it was just another explorer, he opened fire before realizing that it was, in fact, an alien vessel. He got scared and called it in. We isolated the Comm to keep a lid on the situation and rushed to the scene as quick as we could and immediately enacted standard containment protocol and media-blacks.
As best as we could tell, the alien [hereafter JERRY] seemed shaken up and annoyed at being fired upon by Tar. We didn’t want to press the issue so we tried to calm Jerry down using pantomime techniques. Immediately notified the TECH-Div to start working on some kind of translation device. Jerry let them record some of his language. We also ran cursory scans of his ships. Nothing overt as did not want to arouse suspicion but Data is attached.
We’ve released some info to the press and used one of our personnel to pose as Tar for the interview to make sure he toed the line. We don’t think Tar will be a problem. We bluntly explained to him that if he keeps quiet, he gets to be the hero who made first contact rather than the idiot who nearly sparked the first interstellar war. Tar understood.
In the meantime, we deployed Scan-Arrays to Davien to keep an eye out but will anticipate more contact in the coming days or weeks. I’m sure they’re probably just as curious as us. They were curious. Two weeks later, an alien delegation appeared in the Davien System and established contact with Socolovich. Over the next few months, the two races worked to break through the communication barrier. When we could finally interact, we learned that they were the Banu. A collective race of planet-states who had also just started to explore the universe.
In October of 2438, Socolovich and the other delegates signed the first Interstellar Peace and Trade Accord with the Banu.
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