[b]Harbringer[/b]

Quicksilver had been reviewing the data on the prisoners. Apparently most of them were clones, which was interesting. That meant that there was a facility capable of cloning somewhere within this galaxy pre-established. This meant that he did not need to construct his own facility. The ship itself appeared to work on technology similar to that of the Lantaens. Perhaps this was where they had fled to after the war? It was possible however unlikely due to the fact that if they were relatives of the Lantaens they would have long ago started firing upon them. Likely would have returned to their galaxy and wiped out the Wraith while they slept when they had such vast numbers. Some form of distant relatives perhaps? He would never really know.

"Commander. We're getting a transmission from the vessel that attempted to hack into our systems. Their commander is assuring us that the program worked without authorization.""Then either he is a liar or incompetent. That is like me allowing the Hive to roam free and do whatever it wished." He felt the Hives amusement at that and simply paused for a moment as the communication screen began to change slightly. "Someone is attempted to open a channel with us, shall we allow it?" He took a moment to think about it. They would need, as much as he hated to admit it, allies until they were able to begin growing more ships and take control of the cloning facility. They were already birthing new drones on the Hive however without one of the Lantaen power devices it was a slow process having to grow each warrior individually and ensuring that they were all prime specimens. "Allow it."
[quote=Echo][i]“Unknown vessel, this is Captain Rhea Shohashi aboard the Systems Commonwealth vessel Valorous Intent. Both of our vessels have been targeted by the ships of the Galactic Empire and my sensors indicate they are prepared and may fire at any moment. In the interests of survival and victory, I propose an alliance. After all, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”[/i][/quote]

Quicksilver watched as an image of a human appeared. He silently cursed, how many humans out there had developed space travel? He recalled when they had originally defeated the Lantaens they moved from world to world culling in great numbers and reducing those planets until they were far away from developing any form of space travel. That was until they had discovered off Earth and apparently wherever they were as well had a large number of vessels. “I am the Commander of this vessel and its caretaker for my Queen. What is it exactly you are proposing?”

Rhea looked at the image of the alien commander with the slightest disappointment. He looked human, aside from the white hair and strange green skin. His teeth were also particularly unpleasant. Overall he was quite ugly as far as Rhea was concerned. Still, that didn’t really mean anything. Perseids were often incredibly ugly too, and yet they were among the most brilliant minds in the universe. “Well commander, when they shoot at us, and I think they probably will quite soon, we shoot back at them and not each other. After that, I rather hope we could work together to figure out where we are and how to get back where we came from, but we’ll see how things are after the shooting stops before we talk about details.”

“We shall transmit coordinates outside of the planetary system out towards the outer edge of the sector to ensure that we can do it all in one jump and I do not need to drop out of hyperspace for the Hive to repair itself. I have Wraith attempting to decipher the technology on the shuttle of the Empire off which we seized. For the time being, you may approach the Hive.” He watched on the sensors as ships seemed to form distinct groups. The one which had assaulted the Hives mind was forming up with two others, two still remained on their own and there was a group of four in a decaying orbit, the sensors indicated that one of them was in a critically damaged state from what they could ascertain.

“Thank you commander.” Rhea began, wondering about some of the terms he had used. “I assume a ship of your size will need no assistance on the offense. When battle is joined I will do my best cover you with defensive fire.” She thought for a moment, wondering whether to reveal the fact that she hadn’t a clue what hyperspace was. She decided it couldn’t hurt, this man would probably figure out that she knew very little of his technology soon enough. “I have no idea about hyperspace, but I can’t Slipstream this close to the planet without doing serious damage to it. I’m not ready to kill billions of innocents yet, so if we plan to run, please give me a minute or two of headstart.”

Quicksilver sighed, quite audibly. They had no FTL capability, the thing is he could either leave them behind and save himself and his ship or take them with him. They might still be useful for some time to come. “If you have some way of externally docking onto the Hive you will be pulled into hyperspace along with us.” They could alternatively dock inside the ship however he wasn’t quite ready to have the unknown vessel dock. For all he knew they would just start shooting at his vessel from the inside gutting it. 

That was a generous offer, one Rhea wasn’t entirely sure she wanted to take. Just because they were going to shoot at the enemy and not each other didn’t make them friends. Then again, she could always agree and then only carry through if it looked favourable. “Very well. Thank you for the offer, we’ll keep close and latch on when you give the word. Captain Shohashi out.”

Quicksilver turned the screen off and closed his eyes latching his mind with that off the Hiveship and began powering up weapons. "Ready the Darts. We may need them."