>>5662924as your team deciphers the signal, one of the contacts flare with a failure of flame and fire and your radio detects what might be maydays. Clearly going this far out has been a long and testing journey for them, and they could only have come from B7 so fast
first contact protocols are pretty thorough, though, with the clicking insectile through the radio covered in patterns and soon, words, numbers, and letters through the translation matrix. Their message translates simply as
>IDENTIFYas the ships first come into view, it’s clear they are tiny, crude, and nearly comparable to something from the human 1980s. Each of them appears to be light green hexagon tiles chundering crudely through space, and one of them is on fire and sputtering out. The rest do not even appear concerned to help it.
Your ships message out apparently stumps them, and they stop (or at least the ones not on fire) a short distance away beside each other. The flaming one drifts slowly into range of your equipment. Soon they transmit
>IF...NOT...SPECTER…FOLLOWthey literally do not care that a third of their number just burned up and might still contain its pilot, as you can clearly hear the aliens yells on the radio.
