User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-10905876-20161014033433/@comment-27404954-20161015194515

-- Mars, Sol System, near the Mars Ultor Type-X Battlestation --

As the Harlothian probe enters Martian aerospace, the first thing it sees is a battle-station some forty times larger than the ship it came from, glittering with lights and weaponry. Several massive ships are docked with it, each one twelve times larger than the Harlothian frigate, but still small next to the Mars Ultor's bulk.

Like a shark, an Aneph battlecruiser nosed over towards the Harlothian probe, almost with an air of curiosity. Within seconds, the probe was imaged and scanned ten different ways, and the data transmitted back and forth between the Mars Ultor and the Aneph databases on Mars. No matches were found, and the battlecruiser drew back slightly.

Over multiple communications wavelengths, ranging from radio to optical, data was transmitted in the base code of the universe, binary, through to hexadecimal, octal, and multiple languages of Earth. It spelled a single message.

"Please identify yourselves and your purpose within the Sol System demarcation. We apologize for any apparent hostility, but recent events have made humanity less well-disposed to new arrivals."

The battleship slips away back towards the Mars Ultor, as if attempting to demonstrate a lack of hostile intent -- or, for that matter, worry.