by Max Barry

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Region: Hoshizora

L empire wrote:George could see the Musie’s face shift from a calm and peaceful look, to a small frown, as he responded. The musie himself internally groaned to himself, does nobody understand respect anymore, it seems the entirety of the cosmos has no understanding of respectful dialogue he thought to himself, as he looked up to George. “I see...I apologize for my peoples extreme response, its just been several millennia since we met another xeno.” he said as he looked around. “We were just worried if you might of been hostile or now, now myself I have come here to meet with the strange...foreigners who have landed on my soil, and to see what their doing here and if a common understanding could be made.” he said as he looked back at George again, locking eyes with him.
“Anyway’s Captain Jeyorge, you have to come to my world to mine, I would be put in a very precarious situation if I just let you dig into the sacred ground for no exchange, that would leave us in open for possible Krys and Cypherian attempts to establishing mining bases as well...but, I do believe if we discussed this further, we may be able to come to an agreement to give you exclusive mining rights.” he said, his brain was trying to piece together the culture of this empire through the brief introductions, and noticed several similarities to the Cypherians. He hoped like the Cypherians a general agreement could be made, showing equal respect. “I am also curious, if you could maybe tell me more about your home Captain?” asked Musie, his tactician mind going through the risk and reward of this interaction, if he could learn more about their culture and civilization in general this could possibly give him a better position in negotiating with the foreigners.

George’s cross arms fell to his side, “Well that’s unfortunate. I’ve been traveling for a while looking for someplace that’d have rich ore deposits and not have anyone too interested in defending the resources and here I find a buncha sentients. Just my bloody luck. You wanted to discuss further so talk. Elaborate your plan and such.” The creach crossed her arms and shook her head.
“You lot seem joyful.” Isabella chuckled.
“What about my home? Dernby isn’t worth talking much about.”
Saoirse and John seemed to be minding their business, Clovis peering down from up high. The Âne was leaning against the railing of the ship and watching everything happen below. Not paying much attention otherwise, as the ladder to the ship was hanging by John and Saoirse.
George continued, “cold, not much there outside of a few cities. Serves as a minor stop for ships on their way north of Bezembay or south from Huron. You’d likely be more interested in Bezembay, capital of the empire. Whole planet is one city, you know. Only been there once when I was a boy. Isabella over there is from Maryburgh. Big desert planet full of miners. It’s where I hired her and John from to engage on this expedition. Saoirse over there is from Kepioy, a large uh... green planet. Don’t know much else about it myself. And clovis up there is from Arlington, a planet much like this one. Except maybe with more rivers. And more hills. Otherwise fields of tall grass is pretty similar to Arlington, though I doubt you lot have anything as close to Rolany here.”

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