Glacier had seen many things, eldritch gods, undead terrorists, and a fair share of unicorns. But they had never seen a ship of this magnitude. Sure, the stuff the late Prometheus Labs cooked up were fantastical, they were still trying to make ships as high quality as they used to after all, but this ship put any ship Prometheus made to shame.

While their ships were a kilometer at the most, this new ship was magnitudes larger, much bigger than the narrow spinning cylinder of a spaceship the Coalition used. Not only was it around five times longer than their ships, it looked almost like a cathedral, with unknown religious imagery and iconography plastered all over the sides. It was gorgeous and terrifying and looked like something out of that old tabletop game he used to play back in high school, and here he was trying to scare it off with a fleet of only two dozen ships that amounted to a fraction of the mass this ship had.

"They seem to have given us no response. What should the fleet do, sir?"

"Ready the railguns," Glacier said to the officer, "tell the thaumaturges to stand by, send a transmission back to the Council and tell them to be ready in case we get a hostile response. We need to be ready to combat this parathreat at a moment's notice."

"Right away, sir," they said as they pressed a button on the control panel , "Everyone be on high alert, be ready to fire on a moment's notice, thaumaturges should be ready to apportate strike teams into the enemy vessels.

Faustus sat, thinking over his options on how to deal with this so-called, "Global Occult Coalition". They clearly were unsanctioned psykers, that much was certain, and they were proud to be witches, you don't just plaster "occult" on your name and not be proud of being a psyker. Normally, Faustus would have struck these xeno witches down with his ship. But despite his zealous fever, and the fact that this "Coalition" had ships that were the size of a bloodsucking mite compared to their ship, but the fact they had a gigantic mechanical weapon located in a gas giant that could blow their ship into rubble in less than a minute made him pause. If they were to risk retaliation from this dreadnought, it would accomplish nothing productive and leave no one to warn the rest of the Imperium. But to leave this threat unattended too would be a bigger mistake than attacking the dreadnought, and would most likely end with a bullet through his head.

"Admiral Faustus?" Captain Mattius said sheepishly, not wanting to offend Faustus with his lowly voice. "If I may suggest something?"

"You may, Captain," Faustus said, hoping Mattius had any suggestion worth implementing.

"Why don't we open diplomacy with them?"

"Not forever!" he quickly added, feeling Faustus stern glare on him, "We wait until we get reinforcements from the rest of the Imperium, and in the meantime we pretend to open diplomacy to keep an eye on them, to make sure they don't do anything. That way we can keep an eye on them without having to fight their dreadnought.

Admiral Faustus thought this over for what was a painfully long time for Mattius, the feeling of dread at what the Admiral would do with him plastered over his face.

"You," Faustus said pointing at an officer, saying nothing to Mattius, "Open a Vox-cast transmission to this 'Occult Coalition'."

"Right away sir. What do you wish to send?"

"We are receiving a response from the craft."

"Put it through."

"Dear, Global Occult Coalition, we have come here to open diplomatic channels with you due to your sudden and unexpected appearance in our territory. We did not know that we were in violation of whatever laws you have, but we would like to formally apologize and send over some diplomats to further the relationships between us. From, Admiral Faustus of the Imperial Navy."

"Should we respond, sir?" The officer replied to Glacier

"Yes… I didn't think this would become a PSYCHE operation, but if they wish to send diplomats we should comply with this request. It's better to use diplomacy than to try to forcefully eject them from the solar system. Gather any spare diplomates we have along with an assessment team, I shall go with them."

"Are you sure, sir?"

"We must at least try to be amicable to them, we don't know how big they are or what they can do, it's best to get on their good side and avoid any unpleasant encounters."

"Alright, but are you sure that you should go over? You are a high ranking member of the GOC space force. It would be unwise to lose you to an unknown threat."

"I am the admiral of this fleet, if any agreement between our two fleets is to happen I must be there, send a communication over."

"Right away sir, we are recording the message… now."

"Dear, Admiral Faustus, on behalf of the Global Occult Coalition, I welcome your openness to diplomacy with us, you don't know how few times this happens to will be graciously accepting your invitation. We will be sending over some diplomats along with an armed assessment team to ensure their continued safety. I hope you understand our reluctance to trust you due to being an unknown entity. We will be sending over a small vessel to meet yours and begin in diplomatic contact. We do have one condition, and that is that you stay within the Kuiper Belt, the second ring of asteroids that is, while we negotiate. We will be sending the diplomats once you agree to our conditions. From, Admiral Glacier of the Global Occult Coalition High Command."

Hello, it's me, the author, and uh... this got more popular then I expected for just a singular chapter, 43 favorites and 66 followers at this moment, and I'd like to say thanks for the support! I'll try to update as often as SCP-173 gets it's cell cleaned(every two weeks for the uninitiated).

As for what type of Foundation I'm going for(if you don't know the SCP mythos this is important to iron out, it can range from "oh boo hoo, I'm barely hanging on to life" to "single handedly solos the entirety of any fictional universe"). Most of Third Law is canon, and both the Foundation and GOC are on the cusp of interstellar travel(technically Site-Anvil is outside of the solar system, but that was a major feat between the two of them), Pataphysics is just now being explored as a field of study so they can't do much with it but they can rationalize the world with it, the Biblical Flood in the Kaktusverse(and all the pre flood civilizations) never happened, 2000 is canon, 6000 is not, and most science in ADMONITON is correct although besides the science they aren't canon. Also don't expect one side to stomp the others, if I wanted to do that I'd make a forum post on reddit or something, not a fanfiction, this is a story. (Also no smut, we are smutless here)