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mean much."

"What about power output?" Dyami asked.

"I don't know, sir," the sensor officer said slowly. "I'm not getting any leakage."

"None?"

"None that I can pick up."

Dyami exchanged glances with the exec. "Superconducting cables," the exec hazarded. "Or else just
very well shielded."

"One or the other," Dyami agreed, looking back at the silent shapes floating in the middle of the
main display. Not only a self-starfaring race, but one with a technology possibly beyond even
humanity's. That history-book listing was getting longer and more impressive by the minute.

The exec cleared his throat. "Are we going to open communications, sir?" he prodded.

"It's that or just sit here staring at each other," Dyami said dryly, throwing a quick look at the tactical
board. The rest of the Jutland's, eight-ship task force was deployed in his designated combat
formation, their crews at full battle stations. The two skitter-sized watchships were also in position,
hanging well back where they would be out of danger if this meeting stopped being peaceful. The
Jutland's own Dragonfly defense fighters were primed in their launch tubes, ready to be catapulted
into battle at an instant's notice.

Everything was by-the-book ready... and it was time to make history. "Lieutenant Adigun, pull up
the first-contact comm package," Dyami ordered the comm officer. "Get it ready to run. And alert all
ships to stand by."



"Signal from the Jutland, Captain," Ensign Hauver reported from the Kinshasa's bridge comm
station. "They're getting ready to transmit the first-contact package across to our bogies."

Commander Pheylan Cavanagh nodded, his eyes on the linked-hexagon ships in the bridge display.
"How long will it take?"

"Oh, they can run the first chunk through in anywhere from five to twenty minutes," Hauver said.
"The whole package can take up to a week to transmit. Not counting breaks for the other side to try
to figure out what we're talking about."

Pheylan nodded. "Let's hope they're not too alien to understand it."

"Mathematics are supposed to be universal," Hauver pointed out.


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