"Captain, we will be arriving in the Corsa galaxy in twenty-five seconds."
"Thank you Turnra, bring the ship to entrance stations." Captain Roto Veck said quickly.
"All hands, all hands, entrance stations." The ship AI declared. As she said this, crew members were beaming to their various posts. Captain Veck himself emerged onto the bridge a moment later.
"Dropping out in three… two…. one…….."
The ship, a Destiny class exploration ship dropped out of what was commonly referred to as "Worm Space".
"Sensors are running at full power sir." A young Jaffa officer announced. Before them, they saw a planet covered in buildings, and orbited by millions of satellites. Light seemed to never fade on the planet below, it was everywhere.
"Sir, sensors indicate the surface of the planet is covered in steel structures that are up to six kilometers high in some places."
The bridge personnel looked at one another in shock, while some of their planets were heavily industrialized; they had never seen a planet where the crust of the planet was invisible to the naked eye. As the crew began to evaluate the civilization below for contact procedures an Asgard officer spoke.
"Captain Veck, we have incoming ships, they are approximately one mile in length, and are approaching on an intercept course."
Instantly the bridge personnel tensed, they had experienced hostile first contacts before, and were concerned that this one might fall apart before it began.
"We have an incoming transmission on a radio frequency." The communications officer announced. "They are broadcasting an audio message only."
"Lets here it." The captain said quickly.
"Unidentified vessel you are in Imperial space, identify yourselves or you will be fired upon." The voice was human, and to the surprise of the Terrans, was speaking in a variation of Terras, the most prevalent language in the Republic.
Captain Veck gestured to the human diplomat on board the bridge, and she began her speech.
"This is the Terran Republic exploration ship Turnra; we come in peace wishing to further civilization in all forms. As a space faring race you are considered contactable and we would welcome the opening of a diplomatic relationship with your government."
As the diplomat spoke the Asgard officer blinked in surprise, and turned to the captain. In a low voice he whispered "The language of this galaxy's natives is a derivative of English, the language spoken on Earth two centuries ago."
The captain was shocked by the analysis; it meant that this galaxy must have had contact with the Alterans at some point.
The diplomat continued oblivious, "The Republic has no interest in conflict, and will treat with any government so long as they represent the people who they rule. We would welcome any technological exchange, and would gladly reciprocate. The Republic does not discriminate between civilizations of different species and most civilizations are welcome in the Republic if they so wish. The Republic will not accept governments or species dedicated to the subjugation or extinction of another species or civilization."
It looked like the diplomat had a lot more to say, but at that moment the two ships opened fire. There was no warning, the ships shields had hidden the rapid power up of the turbo lasers, and the green bolts of energy blasted through space with enough power to level a city. They were stopped cold.
The shields of the Turnra held without apparent effort under the barrage. Inside the ship however there was turmoil. The blasts had taken the Terrans by surprise, because the ships was powered only by a Mark Thirteen ZPM, not a Singularity generator, the shields could only endure so much.
"Evasive maneuvers, activate defense grid!" the captain called quickly,
"Shields down to eighty percent!" called out the Jaffa officer,
"We have inbound fighters baring seventy three degrees North West." The Asgard officer announced calmly.
"Is the Defense grid up?" the captain demanded. He knew that their defense grid would be able to take the fighters.
"The Grid is online sir" a human bridge tech reported.
"Power the Worm Drive, get us out of here!" the captain cried.
As he said this the first deaths began. Tie fighters flew in toward the ship and were picked off by short particle bursts. Those that got through which were not many, tried to strafe the hull, only crash and die on the shield. As the Star Destroyers continued to fire the Turnra's shields began to buckle. After only ten minutes of combat the Turnra's shields failed, and the ship was blown apart. Unknown to the Imperials, a small wormhole opened and sent the Ship AI directly to the capital of the nearest Republic Galaxy.