Radio Waves assaulted the receivers of the Star Army ships like waves upon a shore during a storm. Someone was pretty close to their location since they seemed to be receiving transmissions at fairly short intervals.
The first signal seemed to be a single encrypted signal of one long electronic beep, but the rest of the signals seemed to involve battle chatter in a language that seem incredibly close to Old Earth German with them all being visual text messages instead of auditory or visual transmissions.
High above Jaspis V, two forces seemed to be battling for dominance. Each force seemed to be comprised of 44 ships with the largest being 35 meters smaller than a Yui Destroyer. Flashes of light could barely be seen as what seemed to be lasers were traded back and forth between both groups.
Orbiting the small, barren world was a huge station 80 kilometers wide, 25 kilometers long, and 40 kilometers high. It seemed to be constructed of two rectangular structures, one over the other, connected by a large tubular structure running horizontally between them, all surrounded by two massive circular structures. All in all, it was a very impressive sight, though the technology seemed to be quite primitive compared to that of the Star Army of Yamatai.
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"Kommodore Adler!" the Communications Officer suddenly reported to toned woman sitting in the center seat of the bridge. The Kommodore in question turned her goggled eyes towards her subordinate and raised an eyebrow questioningly.
"Yes, Leutnant?"
"Unidentified transmission detected, putting it up on speakers."
"An audio?" Kommodore Leah Alder of the 101 Destroyer Squadron plus escorts looked over at her arm monitor in question before paying attention to the message. All it did was come up in a strange language she had never even heard of before...though some words seemed familiar in a way. "Location." The tactical display came up on her monitor and showed it being pretty close. Eyebrows furrowing, the commanding officer of the taskforce turned to her Comm. Officer. "Message to both Frontier I and all Forces, the War Games are over...form a Wall of Battle and begin switching over to combat readiness. Once that is done, send a text message via Laser Communication to the strange vessels."
"Aye ma'am," the Communications Officer replied as she began to dictate the message.
To Unidentified Vessel,
Your language is strange to us and since we have to translators or equipment to translate on us, we will give you thirty minutes to identify yourselves and prove that you are non-hostile before we attack. If we get no reply or your reply makes us believe you are hostile, we of the Abwehran Weltraumflotte will be forced to annihilate you where you sit!
Kommodore Leah Alder
YSS Dauntless
The only problem was, the Kommodore couldn't really tell how powerful the ships sitting just inside Abwehran space were. For all she knew, they could have been "god-ships" as the techies have begun to call higher tech levels. Sighing in annoyance at the whole thing, the Taskforce CO noticed her Flag Lieutenant standing directly behind and to the right of her chair. He seemed to be nervous as he bounced on his heels noticably. "Oberfähnirch Löwenhertz."
"Ma'am!" the young man jumped into military parade fashion, causing the elder woman to chuckle.
"At ease, Mr. Löwenhertz...you and the crew better start getting into your skinsuits."
"Aye, Aye, ma'am," the young Flag Lieutenant replied with a blush as he walked off. Now...all they could do was wait.