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Posted Nov. 8, 2020, 2:57 a.m. by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) (David Fergusson)

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“I will assist Lieutenant Ezial in engineering.” Kord said.

Glen nodded his agreement. Kord had a thousand year’s experience of first contacts, but Glen was quite able to manage on his own.

Once Kord had left, the First turned to regard Glen. =/\= So....Captain Glen was it? =/\= She paused obviously struggling to pronounce Glen’s night right but mostly getting there in her language . =/\= How far from your home are you? As I mentioned we had suspected other intelligent life was around us but we had till not not met anyone or heard of anyone. =/\= She asked.

“Yes, I am Captain John Tiberius Glen of the USS Merrimack,” replied Glen. “I represent, not only my own planet, Earth, but a united federation of planetary governments based upon the principles of universal liberty, rights, and equality. We share knowledge and resources in peaceful cooperation, scientific development, space exploration, and mutual defence.”

Glen continued, “However, we have a policy of non-interference with the normal development of any alien life or society, which means that even if we had known of your existence before now, we would not have contacted you. Our threshold for first contact is a society that has become capable of, discovered and utilised faster-than-light spaceflight. We call the speed of light, Warp speed, so we call these civilisations, Warp-capable civilisations, and you have just joined that very select club with this spacecraft here.”

Glen continued, “We are a ship of exploration, so far away from home for long periods of time. We divide our Milky Way Galaxy up into four quadrants, and Earth is in the Alpha Quadrant, the only quadrant that we have fully explored. We are now in the Beta Quadrant. We picked up your radio transmissions first at our monitoring stations. They showed to be at least 10 years old, so that’s 10 light-years away. So, your ship would take 10 years to reach Federation space.”

-Glen, CO


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