With the Salusians already being handled at B5, and Earth Alliance not yet willing to trust the Tirolians and their Zentraedi allies in as strategically a important location as the Babylon Space Complex, it had been President Ryan’s order to conduct any preliminary First Contact procedures in the vicinity of Venus. Synapse’s orders were to determine their purpose in their star system and if EVE’s IDing was correct.
As such, it was decided to use ‘Little Aruba’ as a place for face-to-face talks. Once the Nomad had evacuated its crew and traveled to another station, the two remaining operational alien ships were escorted there and moored.
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Sol Star System - Venus - Moon Hephaestus Orbit - Riviera Station ’Little Aruba’
Commander Rygar and his science officer, Trillian, were currently being escorted in something called a ‘car’ to the meeting place in the space ecosystem habitat, which itself orbited a planet quite obviously in the process of being terraformed. The process was apparently in its later stages as various areas of green could be seen spreading across its surface.
This is actually rather impressive, Trillian thought. The ceiling dome, which from outside seemed to be just a transparent hemisphere, was not visible inside. Instead there was an image of a planetlike sky overhead. Most likely a hologram, she decided. Beneath the fake sky was an artificial salt lake surrounded by a mix of forested areas of, if the climate was any indication, tropical origin, and an alien city.
Their destination was a moderate sized building on the shore of the lake which, she now saw, was behaving much like a miniature ocean, complete with waves and a beach. The beach was also full of humans, wearing substantially less than those she had so far met. She was suddenly glad the Zentraedi captains, Karita Meln in charge of the males and Jiwei Coor in charge of the females, had decided to attend the conference by ProjecBeam instead of being Micronized and attending personally. Despite their close contact with Ci’Vonian society, they were still quite… uncomfortable when it came to contact with members of the opposite gender.
The meeting place they were led to was a square, spartan conference room centered around a triangular table that was surrounded by chairs, several of which they now occupied. One side’s chairs had been removed for some reason, said reason being apparent five seconds later as two of the flat, 2D, holographic ProjecBeam screens appeared in mid-air, the images of Jiwei and Karita upon them.
The representatives of the native race, surprisingly Tirolian in appearance, sat down on the vacant side of the table and the meeting began.
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Sol Star System - Earth - LaGrange Point Five - Babylon Space Complex – Babylon Five
Currently sitting down in one of the many multicultural establishments located in the Zoccalo, specifically the Sakura Ramen & Tofu, was a young, 17 year old brunette that went by the name of Jeremy Feeple. Surprisingly, if one knew one of his dimensional counterparts that is, this young man was actually in quite good shape.
The athletic, muscles he sported, apparent through the thin shirt he wore, were the obvious the trademark of one who extensively practiced the martial arts. With nothing else to really do while traveling from space port to space port while his mom trained various EarthForce and station security personnel in Ninjitsu, aside from school work anyway, Jeremy had begun to attend his mother’s classes. It was actually surprising how good he got at it, even surpassing his little ninja enthusiast brother, much to Ricky’s chagrin.
He was currently musing over the fact that many of the EarthForce officers off duty in this and the other shops nearby seemed to be leaving. That was when he noticed…
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