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Southern Reaches
Unknown Star System
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Just moments after their celebratory zeal, the alarms rang loudly once more, this time sounding much more urgent as a lone alien object had been detected in the system, making it's approach towards the Peace Fleet. This had sent the defectors into a panic. "No..." Tenmu muttered in despair. For that very moment, the atmosphere was one of dread and uncertainty, an emotion machines don't often experience. Mei kept a calm composure, taking command of the situation, she had to be the shinning example to her followers, to her people. By a simple thought command, a holo-projection of a command console had materialized right before her, she pressed down various keys in brisk pace, sending commands to the whole fleet. "All ships, alert status Beta. I want all ships on stand by." And like that, they complied, every single ship had powered up their weapons, fighter drones were prepped and ready for deployment, all that was left to be done, was simply to wait and see what comes next.

Some time had passed, and soon the object was within visual and signal range, and had begun to transmit something to the fleet. The holo-projection on the map became distorted, a repeated, garbled word being transmitted aboard the command ship, "Sizo" what followed after it had soothed the tension felt in the command room, this wasn't sent by any of the larger region powers, the technology wasn't recognizable. Soon, the table projected the images that were stored in the probe, a feminine humanoid figure, it shared some characteristics of Humanity, yet was different in minor details, what came after has perplexed the group, a wall of alien text forming, needless to say, the machine seemed perfectly harmless. 

One of the machines standing on the opposite end of the table spoke up. "Your worship, what should be done about the probe?"

Mei stood there, thinking, analyzing. "Leave it alone, let them observe us. We won't be a able to hide forever." She paused a moment, looking at the text and image. "All we need is a world to call home."