The usual procedure that the Jurians had whenever they encountered a new race was to hail the ship and try to establish peaceful relationships. After all, it is generally not recommended to constantly be fighting multiple wars on all fronts. Usually first contact situations were handled by a calm smooth talking diplomat. These diplomats were specially trained to convince previously unknown races that becoming friends with the Juraien Empire was the best thing that could possibly happen to them.
Ayeka may be the first princess of Jurai and had been trained for these situations, but she was still a hot headed teenager. She had been in a very bad mood after she found out that it had been Ryoko and not Yosho that Azaka and Kamidake had located. In a childish temper tantrum Ayeka said, "Destroy that ship. They are violating our territorial integrity."
Normally either Azaka or Kamidake would have been a voice of reason trying to convince Ayeka away from possibly starting an interstellar war. However, there was a small subroutine within both guardians that insured that they'd do whatever they could to protect the Juraian Empire. Since Ayeka had stated that the unknown ship was violating Juraian territory, true since Earth was technically a part of the Empire, neither guardian was going to offer a less hostile solution.
Over on the Cube Ranma was observing the Ryu-Oh and trying to understand what his sensors were telling him. It completely baffled the Collective that someone would or even could make an interstellar spaceship out of wood. Under Ranma's predecessor the standard procedure would have been to immediately attempt to assimilate the Ryu-Oh. However, Ranma wasn't about to just forcefully assimilate people into the Collective. Oh he'd insure that the Collective continued to grow, just he'd use different methods then his 'mother' had used.
As Ranma was pondering what he should do about the Ryu-Oh the new king noticed the rapidly rising energy levels on the enemy ship. A quick scan revealed that the increase energy wasn't being directed towards the Ryu-Oh's engines for use in a Warp Drive or whatever the natives of this area of space used. That meant only one thing: the Ryu-Oh must be preparing to attack the Cube.
Instantly Ranma ordered the Cube to prepare its defenses. There was no way that he’d allow any of his drones to be harmed if he could avoid. As the Cube’s defenses were put into place Ranma went over the scant tactical data that he had on the hostile ship. Suddenly a little bit of information caught Ranma’s eye and caused him to smirk. It seemed that the alien’s shields did not protect the ship against the Borg’s transporters. In a completely unorthodox move Ranma ordered the collective to transport the two organic life forms onto the cube.
Ranma didn’t want to just keep his two new guests in the transporter buffer so he had them placed in two different empty sections of the ship that were surrounded by internal force fields. As an extra safety precaution Ranma ordered that just the life forms be beamed into the ship. Given the shouting and vocal tones of the older female, she was not exactly pleased with being suddenly removed from her ship and being place into an unknown area nude. While Ranma could sympathize with her situation he just couldn’t see any other option that he had. The Collective had absolutely no knowledge of Ayeka’s species or their technology. Any item that she had originally had on her personage could have potentially caused a great deal of damage to the ship.
Thanks to Ranma’s new multiprocessing abilities he was able to quickly take care of the Ryu-Oh at the same time that he heard Ayeka voicing her complaints. Azaka and Kamidake had been confused for a few seconds about what they should do when Ayeka and Sasami were beamed away. Naturally Ranma capitalized on the two guardians’ confusion by beaming over almost a hundred drones to quickly secure the Ryu-Oh and neutralize the guardians. With a mere thought Ranma had the captured Ryu-Oh brought inside the cube for further study.
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(Posted Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:51)
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