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With the introductions out of the way the groups would finally return to the table. Once everyone was seated where they would like as it did not seem there was any formal or more traditional ‘head of the table’ privilege like they might expect, Dol clasped his hands and straightened out his silver pointed hat and garb. “..Well once more I am quite happy to have gotten to meet you all from the Merrimack. I am sure we all have many questions to exchange with each other in some form or another. So I propose we do just that,” he said looking to Glen with a friendly smile, “..Captain Glen as our guest would you or any of your people like to begin with asking my advisors or myself any further questions you may have? Conversely we could simply break up this meeting to let you all tour where you wish on our habitat?” he said.

“Well,” replied Glen, “I’ll go first! This is not really a question, but I guess I’m most interested in the reasons why you don’t live on planet surfaces or wish to travel through space. I think you mentioned that it was due to it being a symbol of the slavery of your ancestors, who came from another system after the overthrow of their masters to settle on this planet. You said that they choose not to live on any planets because they fear that to do so would lead them down a path of enslaving others. I must say that this sets you apart from every other species that I’ve met, though maybe Cara has knowledge of others, but on every planet I’ve visited, there is a strong desire to launch ships into space, and to colonise other worlds. It is frequently seen as a sign of the progress of a society to do so. Space exploration is frequently a constant source of philosophical, moral, and intellectual debate. Planets often spend resources they can ill afford exploring other planets, when they can’t even take care of their own people. Our United Federation of Planets itself uses the rather blunt measure of Faster-than-Lightspeed travel as a gauge of how technologically advanced a race is. However, you have eschewed all of that, and I must say, it makes you quite unusual and incredibly interesting to us.”

There was something that Ferris was itching to know. “I also have a question.”

“Even living here on this habitat, why not explore more in the traditional sense. As Captain Glen mentioned, usually a civilization has a desire to know about space around them, or at least if there’s anyone else out there,” he stopped to take a bite. “And if so, who, exactly, those people are. While I see the merits in your current system, wouldn’t there be other benefits to exploring yourselves?”

Ferris, Comms

William stood behind the group, hands clasped behind his back, as he observed the aliens and crew interact. He’d have his time to ask questions but for now he was focusing on understanding how these people treated questions of varying degrees.

CSO

Cross came back with another glass of water, pulled a chair not knowing who sat on either side.She settled down listening and stayed silent.

Cross CMO.

OOC: Doing some snipping here, I’ll get a reply either later tonight or in the morning!

GM CockRoach