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Aped

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Aped

OC
The Lord Admiral preened his furred mandibles as he stepped aboard the human shuttlecraft.

"My thanks again for taking the time to come see the fruits of our labors," said his host, a diplomat by the name of Mackenzie. Also accompanying them was another human, an engineer and shipwright who only apparently only responded to the name of 'Alf.'

The Lord Admiral nodded graciously, gesturing out the window. "It is good to work with such a creative and insightful species as your own" he said, glancing around the interior of the shuttlecraft and noticing more than a few design elements which were modeled after or directly copied from the ships his species had gifted humanity.

They had first made contact with humans only a few light years out of the human's own system, well before they'd reached the galactic core and the multitude of civilizations therein. It meant they were able to get in early lead on building an alliance with the upstart newcomers, and it was a relationship that was proving time and again to be valuable, if a little bit tricky to balance diplomatically.

The human noticed his gaze around the shuttlecraft, and with a smile they said "We appreciate and thank you again for your generous gift to us so early in our steps out into a wider galaxy. While we had figured out how to generate a hyperspace vortex, the calculations and stability were very uncertain even at the best of times."

The Lord Admiral chuckled "Is anything involving hyperspace ever reliable?" Mackenzie smiled and shrugged.



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