[b]Equestrian Offer[/b] The Federation has sent a message back regarding the offer. "We gratefully accept your mining offer, but listen to me about the moon conversion. You have no idea what you have just done for us, the power that would come from the conversion of an entire moon is unimaginable! The defense platforms around Lakfakalle? Those are relics of the ancient Aif Empire, we call their weapons 'antiproton streamers'. You can imagine what they do. We are capable of attaching them to our vessels, but the only problem so far has been our negative mass reserves. With a moon sized factory we could have entire fleets of warships using weapons technology unseen since fifty-thousand years ago! We expected a lot of things from alien species, but never that they would offer us the power to destroy them! Let it be known that if you actually go through with this offer, we shall never leave your side!" [b]LIV [i]Terminator[/i][/b] The Fleetmaster was met by Kuuyi Oras and three guards. The guards were wearing standard issue body armor and helmets, when coupled with their gunpowder assault rifles gave the appearance of warriors found on primitive planets. Captain Oras, on the other hand, was carrying a pistol in its holster and seemed to instead prefer bladed weapons, as shown by the huge-apparently diamond-sword (if you could call it that) strapped to her back. It was obviously not created for its strength, as the Federation definitely had nanotubes (as shown by the sword existing). Its blade was far from the norm, with seemingly random spikes protruding from it for no purpose other than to intimidate and to cause massive pain. If Captain Oras planned to use it in any effective way, she would have to be insanely strong in order to pull the spikes out of the first person she hit. They escorted the Fleetmaster and their guards to a door just down the hall, then they stopped. "No one but the Fleetmaster is permitted within this room, the test is sometimes interpereted as a direct attack on the one being tested. When our first sailing ships made contact with the humans, a war erupted over this very test. To some it can be quite painful, so if you want to back out we will not blame you. However, if you do back out, then your ships will not be allowed within our space and you will not be permitted to go near the wreckage. I would go through the entire pre-test checklist, but we continue on our orbit and keep getting closer to the wreckage, so we have to do this quickly. Do not worry for your own safety, the entire checklist is dedicated to our own safety due to the nature of the test." [b]Supreme Contact[/b] "Acknowledged, we are opening a hole in the planetary shield and preparing a greeting party. Due to the content of your last message, this contact will need to be kept a secret from our populace. You see... it confirms religious myths, obviously, if anyone who has fanatical opinions gets word of this, then untold numbers of people could die."