They were able to communicate with me quite...I was about to say quite easily but there was nothing easy about it. Fortunately, they stopped short of overloading my circuitry.
You're saying they? So it is a vessel of some sort?
Definitely not a single entity, if that's what you mean, sir, although they know the Edo worship them as a god thing.
They know?
They recognize that this is quite expected and harmless at the present Edo stage of evolution.
What sort of vessel?
It is perhaps not what we would understand as a vessel, sir. The dimensions this one occupies allows them to be... well, to be in several places at once, but they consider that this entire star cluster is theirs. It was probably unwise of us to attempt to place a human colony in this area. Of course, there are 3,004 other planets in this star cluster in which we could have colonized. The largest and closest...
Data! Don't babble.
Babble, sir? I am not aware that I ever babble, sir. It may be that from time to time I have considerable information to communicate, and you may question the way in which I organize it...
Please, organize it into brief answers to my questions. We have very little time. Do they accept our presence at this planet?
Undecided, sir.
Data, please feel free to volunteer any important information.
I volunteer that they are now observing us, sir.
To judge what kind of life-forms we are?
No. It is more curiosity. I doubt that they expect us to abide by their value systems.
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