The Xyrvid Exploration

[Zzyriphian]

"Overseer Omdiir has demanded that we are to explore potential inhabitable worlds between Kollæra and S-113 until the completion of the S-113 Wormhole Station, in which further progress towards the galactic core is to be made. Current prospects include S-112, K-007, E-887, E-888, S-399, H-221, I-002, and U-022. Researches ship 000-Omdiir is tasked to this project. Contact all intelligent life encountered." -Note to The Toriux

[Caspoi]

A R'lyehan ship encounters one of their ships and signals for them to lock to one another.

[Zzyriphian]

"Overseer Omdiir, while pleased with interspecies contact, indicates that locking ships is potentially unsafe. 000-Omdiir is to be placed under the command to attempt remote communications first. Transmit: 'Greetings / We are the Xyrvid / We would enjoy meeting || However / Connecting ships offers security risks / We hope you do not misunderstand.' In the event auditory communication is necessary, differ to Overseer Omdiir." -Direct Message to 000-Omdiir

(Key: / = New line || = Full stop, then clear screen and start again)

[Caspoi]

The ship does not respond to the signals as they do not understand the alien language. It sends out a small shuttle which signals the ship to let it aboard.

[Zzyriphian]

"Overseer Omdiir is displeased with the failure to communicate, but will hesitantly accept ambassadors upon the ship. Indicate with chalk from the cargo bay that only two [||] may board. Maintain equipped guards within range to dispel any physical conflicts that arrive. Take envoys to an unused room and outfit it with seats and tables if they seem appropriate. Maintain some video surveillance over the encounter so that Overseer Omdiir may watch. Await additional orders once meeting is established. A Hajjus Scribe should be within the room to record all events. Once a meeting area is established and parties are placed inside the room, await additional orders." -Direct Message to 000-Omdiir

[Caspoi]

The shuttle lands inside the ship.

[Zzyriphian]

"Overseer Omdiir suggests that overhead lights are to be brightened slightly in the arrival of the your guests. A fellow offspring of Dekkarus has expressed to him the hypothesis that they may be more photophillic than the Xyrvid. As an order, the 000-Omdiir shall greet our first contact with two [guards armed with] personnel suppressors, a Hajjus scribe, and an appointed [leader] of the vessel. The scribe shall use their chalk board to indicate with a drawing that only two may come aboard. Keep [guards equipped with] assault arms nearby." -Direct Order to the 000-Omdiir

[Caspoi]

A man, covered in tentacles went out. Acompanied by him was one fishman.

[Zzyriphian]

"Overseer Omdiir found our first contact intriguing, if a tad disgusting. The Hajjus scribe that had been dispatched to help maintain contact with the formerly unknown species wrote many times over of their overbearing odor and distasteful amount of cleanliness. Even as the other envoy was led to the meeting room that had been hastily furnished, our scribe could not bear close proximity with the creatures." -Contemporary Texts of the Hajjus

[Caspoi]

Sitting down the tentacle man said:

"I speak for the Great Realm of R'lyeh and welcome you to the galaxy as a whole."

[Zzyriphian]

"The Overseer indicated he was much dismayed that they communicated with sound, and ordered for the Hajjus scribe to 'Illustrate sound coming from them to the Xyrvid, then the Xyrvid looking at each other in lack of understanding,' and to do so quickly. [Fortunately, all Xyrvid on vessels were required to wear holographic projectors around the slightly thinner part of their bodies, and so they'd be able to see their orders displayed before them on the table]. Several small Toriux groups were also to be arranged in an observation room to attempt to determine some form of simple communication both parties could use." -Contemporary Texts of the Hajjus

[Zuko Darkborn]

As a Domain radar detects unknown spaceships, they open a transmission. If opened, it shows a Thyara that somehow speaks your tongue.

"We have not seen your kind before. Who are you? Are you willing to be protected from the Apocalypse come again?"

[Caspoi]

Not finding any way to make them understand sound the tentacled man sarts to directly speak to their minds, repeating what he said.

[Zzyriphian]

"Overseer Omdiir was quite surprised when yet another formerly unknown race contacted us, and spoke in a somewhat intelligible manner, though their dialect was quite unique. It was ordered for the Supervisor of the Lomaust to handle the initial contact while Omdiir moved on to handle the newest one. He ordered for the on-screen communication to be transferred to the console before him in roughly five minutes. Omdiir indicated that they were quite excited during the quick grooming session before the two-way visual became live." -Contemporary Texts of the Hajjus

"Supervisor Uldin was briefed quickly on the situation aboard the science vessel 000-Omdiir. The confusion of our envoy was very displeasing, despite the unnatural form of communication the opposing race used. Uldin ordered them to indicate that they are too low as Xyrvid to be permitted to directly communicate in ways not natural to the Xyrvid." -Contemporary Texts of the Hajjus

[Caspoi]

The countinous lack of meaningful response was by this point starting to get on the nerves of the ambassador, as his twisting tentacles showed.

[Zzyriphian]

"Supervisor Uldin seem amused at the peevishness of the opposing ambassador. This amusement led to the order to attempt to communicate with the aliens using only drawings on the Scribe's board. Uldin specifically ordered to show that in order for them to communicate with us then we'll have to find some common writing. Uldin did not indicate, exactly, how to do this, leaving the Hajjus Scribe on the 000-Omdiir to later transcribe that they did their best to draw such an abstract idea, but that they feel as if they failed." - Contemporary Hajjus Texts

"Greetings fellow space-fairer! I am Overseer Omdiir of the Xyrvid, we hope you will prove friendly and cooperative." -Omdiir's First Words to [The Thyara]

[Caspoi]

Writing a picture of a planet inhabited by people like him the ambassador then gestured towards first it and then him.

[Zuko Darkborn]

The Domain sends a reply.

"Cooperation is key to civilization, and we never shall abandon civilization."

[Zzyriphian]

"The Hajjus Scribe, who later described that this was done in an unparalleled moment of clarity, acted for a moment on their own ingenuity. They reported that they motioned towards the alien, then tapped their head, remembering the alien's ability to speak directly to his mind, before motioning to writings they had scribbled on their chalk board, trying to determine if the opposing alien could use their mind connection to read the Xyrvid's language." -Draft of a Contemporary Hajjus Text

"It is pleasing to hear such from the second space-faring civilization we have met today. May I ask, what do you call yourselves?" -Overseer Omdiir to The Thyara

[Caspoi]

[That is what he tried to do at first, problem is that he is still bound by his own anatomy, how do you communicate by the way?]

[Zzyriphian]

(They normally communicate via pheremone trails, but most can read or write as that's necessary for sending orders over long distances. The scribe is trying to see if they can use telepathy to read Xyrvid, since Uldin is too much of a bigot to let him do direct mind-to-mind communication.)

[Caspoi]

picking up on what they were trying to do the ambassador started to slowly write:

"I speak for the Great Realm of R'lyeh and welcome you"

[Zzyriphian]

"Supervisor Uldin appeared displeased at the scribe's initiative. After some debate with himself, supervisor Uldin finally decided that the scribe should relay the message 'We are the Xyrvid, and we are excited to meet another space faring race.' Supervisor Uldin expressed the thought that it had sounded enough like Overseer Omdiir." -Contemporary Texts of the Hajjus

[Caspoi]

The ambassador countinued to write:

"Do you wish to serve the Great Old Ones, the rulers of this universe and all of the others?"

[Zuko Darkborn]

A late reply from the Kreazi Domain is sent.

"We call ourselves the Domain of the Kreazi, as we are the lowly hierarchies of Thyaras loyal to the Divine Beings, who shall protect us all from Apocalypse come again."

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