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HAIL AND WELCOME. ‘TIS OUR REQUEST THAT THEE IDENTIFY THYSELF[. . .] WE ARE ELOWAN AND WOULD HAVE PEACE BETWEEN US.

Friendly hail request:
IN FRIENDSHIP WE GREET THEE, FELLOW TRAVELLERS OF ETERNAL NIGHT. FEAR NOT THE ELOWAN WHO SEEK THAT WHICH THOU DOST ALSO, THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE PEACE OF UNDERSTANDING.

GREETINGS AND FELICITATIONS MOST GRAND, FRIENDS OF THE ELOWAN. WE WOULDST HELP THEE IN ANY WAY WE CAN. PRAY, HOW MIGHT WE BE OF SERVICE?

WE OFFER FELICITATIONS MOST SINCERE. THOU ART WELL MET, AND WELCOME HERE.

HAIL TO THEE, AND WELL MET ARE WE. THOU ART WELCOME, FRIENDS OF THE ELOWAN.

AGAIN WE ARE MET AND HAPLY SO. UNTO THEE WE OFFER WHAT SMALL WISDOM WE HAVE ACQUIRED. WHAT SAY YOU?

Neutral Statement:
PRAY, DO NOT LISTEN TO SUCH THINGS AS THE THRYNN MIGHT SAY OF US. ‘TIS NAUGHT BUT EMPTY SLANDER.

IF FROM THYSELF TO STORE THOU WOULDST CONVERT, OR ELSE OF THEE THIS I PROGNOSTICATE. THY END IS TRUTH’S AND BEAUTY’S DOOM AND DATE.

WE ASK ONLY THAT YOU COMMIT NEITHER VIOLENCE NOR TRESSPASS AGAINST US. IN RETURN WE OFFER MUCH.

WE EXTEND TO THEE THE VINE OF FRIENDSHIP. IF THOU WOULDST HAVE IT SO, WE WOULD SHARE WITH THEE WHAT WE KNOW.

WE ENTREAT THEE FROM VIOLENCE REFRAIN, FOR NOTHING MORE DO WE DISDAIN, AND IN SO DOING ALL THAT WE MIGHT GAIN, WOULD BE FOREVER LOST, LIKE TEARS IN RAIN.

Friendly Statement:
FORSAKE US NOT FOR THE TERRIBLE THRYNN, YOU CAN BUT ONLY LOSE FOR DOING THIS.

THOU ART WISE IN THY PEACEFUL DEALINGS, FOR THE PATH TO KNOWLEDGE DOTH LIE THEREIN. WERE THAT ALL RACES WERE MINDED SO.

IN SOOTH ARE CONCEPTS AKIN TO ORGANISMS, FOR DO THEY NOT REQUIRE TIME FOR GROWTH AND CULTIVATION, AND DO WE NOT BREED THEM FOR BEAUTY AND FOR PRODUCTIVITY. LET US EXCHANGE CONCEPTS THAT WE MAY BRING NEW VITALITY TO OUR MINDS.

AGAIN WE ARE AS WE ONCE WERE WITH THOSE FEW OF YOUR KIND, ALLIES IN THE CAUSE OF TRUTH AND THE SEARCH FOR WISDOM. THIS IS AS IT SHOULD BE, IS IT NOT.

Question:
ART THOU FRIENDS OR ALLIES OF THE THRYNN?

HAST THOU OR THINE EVER PARTAKEN OF HEADFRUIT?

ART THOU AND THE INSTITUTE OF OLD IN ANY WAY AFFILIATED?

WAS NOT ARTH A NOAH COLONY?

HAS THOU TO THE DEAD ZONE BEEN, AND THE RUINS OF OLD EARTH SEEN?

[AFTER FRIENDLY HAIL]
IS THINE NEED FOR ENERGY DIRE?
[ANSWERING “YES” WHEN CARRYING 20 OR MORE UNITS OF ENDURIUM RESULTS IN:]
SCANNERS OF OURS SHOW THAT THOU HAST 20 ARTH UNITS AT LEAST. THY NEED DOES NOT SEEM DIRE. THOU WOULD’ST SPEAK FALSELY AND TAKE ADVANTAGE ON US.

[ANSWERING “YES” WHEN CARRYING LESS THAN 20 UNITS OF ENDURIUM RESULTS IN:]
WE GIVE UNTO THEE, FRIENDS OF THE ELOWAN, 15 ARTH UNITS OF FUEL.

[IF A THRYNN IS ABOARD SHIP:]
WE DOST DETECT THE PRESENCE OF ACCURSED THRYNN ABOARD THY VESSEL. WE WOULDST HAVE NO DEALINGS WITH THEE, FRIENDS OF OUR ENEMIES.

FORSOOTH, WE CAN DETECT THE PRESENCE OF THRYNN, AND THEY US, FOR WE ARE THE FIERCEST OF ENEMIES. DO NOT UNDERSTAND ME WRONGLY, THEY ALONE ARE THE AGGRESSORS. 
(End communication and attack if stronger)

[IF COMMUNICATIONS WERE FIRST ESTABLISHED WITH THE THRYNN:]
OUR INVESTIGATIONS REVEAL THAT THOU ART FRIENDS OF THE THRYNN, THEREFORE ART THOU ENEMIES OF THE ELOWAN.
(End communication and attack if stronger)

[IF ELAN (PLANET 2 OF SYSTEM 148, 63) HAS BEEN DESTROYED:]
THOU HAST DONE A DEED MOST UNTHINKABLY FOUL. THOU HAST DESTROYED ELAN, AND THEREBY HAST THOU ALL BUT DESTROYED THE ELOWAN. TRULY ART THOU MORE VILE EVEN THAN THE THRYNN. WE ARE NOW AND FOREVER MORTAL ENEMIES.
(End communication and attack if stronger)

Neutral farewell statement:
WE NOW DEPART.

Friendly farewell statement:
WE MUST NOW TAKE OUR LEAVE. FARE THEE WELL FRIENDS.

Themselves:
It is with the theory of science that we are, ourselves concern'd, and such things as may be called beauty and perhaps truth.
Now but few of us remain, for the sun's flare did our second homeworld destroy, and as well we are preyed upon by the Thrynn, relentless and cold.
At a time when we reach an age of adolescence we are uprooted. In so doing we are become omniverous producers until that time when again we must root, whereupon our heads into flowers turn and we reproduce.
Mayhap one of every 300 of our number doth stay rooted within the ground, and in so doing is its head then transformed into a melon-like fruit called headfruit wherein lie the many seeds of our future.
Headfruit is of all thing, to us, most dear. Upon claiming that it dost bestow greater intelligence and increase the span of life do the sly Thrynn thieve and consume this fruit. So have we been enemies, and so shall we always be.
No other planet is so sacred as Elan. For there dost our young abide, and in tranquillity dwell. Not even those of us grown disturb their meditations there. An island world, with oceans vast and splenderous, Elan revolves around the yellow sun of 148,63.
Is not violence, above all things, most base and vile? Surely only as a final measure, and even with reservation, can it be condoned.
The star of our birth was also that of the Thrynn. Together there we dwelt as they so still, till we fled hither, lest they destroy us at last.
The orange star of our birth, at 129,33, was named Eleran, and by the Thrynn Thoss. And upon the second planet did we dwell, and they upon the fourth.
As our young play often do they sing songs such as this- Someday to the ground will fall, Iridani, Echt, and Gaal. Up they'll grow with branches tall, then to Akteron they'll call. And at last it too will fall. The brightest seedling of them all.

Other Races:
Place not your trust in the Thrynn, for they are not what they would appear to be and would do thee harm should they be given the chance to do so.
The culture of the Thrynn embraces the machine. They are advanced and yet within them thou wilt great ignorance find, for they know not even that in nine-month of this year their sun shall flare, nor shall we, who bear them no great love, tell them.
Constant and fierce have been the attack of the vile Thrynn, e'er since the empire fell and could no longer judge them.
Know thee this, that the homeworlds of all races are well guarded and thither thou mayest not descend. Even if thou art friends will they not suffer thee to violate that final bastion. Well has this lesson been learn'd by all races.
Interesting indeed are the ancient Veloxi, for they are possessed of both great wisdom and great ignorance. In matters of the ancients their arrogance breeds false wisdom.
Meeting thee has been no small surprise, for 'twas our belief that the colony world of the empire had'st been destroyed all heretofore.
The Spemin knowest little and mostly do they bluster. Upon pampering shalt thou appease them, but that which I uesful shalt thou gain'st only be force.
Strongest of many races are the Uhlek, and as well the Gazurtoid, who have fled the wave of flaring suns. In sooth, only those who are strongest have survived.
Longer than any other race have the Uhlek fled. From the center of the galaxy they have come hither, and so shall they continue, for the passage of each 100 score years they again journey outward.
The Uhlek are a race like none other. As if cells of one large creature, autonomous yet one, they are possessed of a single mind which resides apart from them, buried deep in subterranean caverns.
So long have the Gazurtoid been traveling outward they have forgotten why they must migrate. They know only that they are on a holy crusade.
Expect little from the Gazurtoid for they offer little. Waste not your time in vain effort to learn from them.
The Uhlek speak only from their weapons. 'Tis our thought that thou would'st not care much for what they have to say.
The wandering creatures of space have been called by many 'the Minstrels', and by some 'Delasa'Alia'. They are old beyond counting and wise in like measure.
The Minstrels, alone of all races, require no vessel in the depth of space. Only do they wander and sing about what was. Little do we know of that which lies within the hearts of the Delasa'Alia.

Old Empire:
'Twas in 2770 that the empire did discover our home system of Eleran. Contact first was made with the wretched Thrynn. Therefore we were not at first accepted as sentient for they spoke wrongly of us and were not questioned in their slander.
When Thrynn and Elowan were taken into the empire the Thrynn nurtured a profane seed. The sale of headfruit on the black market quick became a tenacious weed that survived to the final days of the empire.

The Ancients:
The ancient ones, who are no more, are the oldest of all races. Little do we know of them but for the songs of the Minstrels. T'was from another galaxy, far distant, that they came, or so it is sung.
If the Minstrel songs be true the span of an ancient one's life was measured not in years, but rather in millennium, so long-lived were they.
The Velox, in their boastful pride, lay claim to be descendants of the ancient ones. Heed not such conceitful folly.
For every race that is possessed of some slight knowledge of the ancient ones there is another theory to explain their nature. Perhaps only the Delasa'Alia know the face of truth.
Mayhap none have known more of the ancient ones than the Institute of the old empire of Earth. But alack, with the fall of the empire the knowledge was lost, for none, not even we, knew the location of its final hiding place among the stars.
'Tis not known whether any ancient ones survive still. Mayhap only that heinous legacy, the crystal planet, has been left us. Its evil task is to destroy all that lives. Why, we know not.
Upon approaching the crystal planet it doth unleash a mighty force, so take care. Only the possession of a certain device will stay this. The nature of this device was perchance known to those of the Institute, but it is unbeknownst to us.
'Tis known to us that upon the crystal planet there is one place only that is vulnerable to attack. Oft have we tried and failed, for even this nexus of control is all but impregnable.
If thou wouldst make attack upon the ancient planet of crystal firstly must thou find the nexus of control. To do this thou wouldst require that which is lost, the cone of crystal fashioned by the ancient ones.

General Info:
The sun of the planet thou call'st Arth shall flare in the final week of your ten-month of this year, so we have ascertained.
Akteron, Gaal, Iridani, and Echt. These are the suns of the four seedlings, a constellation in our demesne oft used as a landmark by our people.
Coreward does the dead-zone lie. In this region no living thing shalt thou find, for the crystal planet has passed here and left naught behind.
Outward of the dead-zone lies the zone-intermediate. Here the crystal planet orbits, completing its task ere it moves on.

WE ARE THE FRIGHTENINGLY AWESOME SPEMIN, MASTERS OF THE GALAXY, LORDS OF THE UNIVERSE, ALL-POWERFUL BEINGS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION. TREMBLE BEFORE US. IDENTIFY YOURSELVES, SUBCREATURES.

I AM HIGH GRAND MASTER SUPREME CAPTAIN [NAME], COMMANDER EXTRAORDINAIRE OF THE DELUXE INTERSTELLAR HYPERDRIVE SPEMIN CRUISE-SHIP [NAME]. WE ARE PREPARED TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF YOUR SURRENDER.

IT IS USELESS TO PRETEND THAT YOU ARE NOT AFRAID OF US. WE ARE THE DEATH-DEALING SPEMIN, AND I AM THE FAMOUS FORMIDABLE CAPTAIN [NAME]. DOUBTLESS YOU HAVE HEARD OF ME. YOU MASK YOUR FEAR WELL, BUT NOT WELL ENOUGH.

NOTICE HOW WE TOY MERCILESSLY WITH YOU. THIS IS THE FATE OF ALL WHO OPPOSE THE SPEMIN. PREPARE FOR OUR UNSTOPPABLE ATTACK.

IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU TO BEG FOR MERCY. I, HIGH COMMANDER [NAME] OF THE SECRET SPEMIN DEATH FLEET SHALL OOZE DOWN AND ABSORB YOU LIKE SO MUCH FOOD SUBSTANCE.

SO, YOU WISH US TO IDENTIFY OURSELVES. DO YOU THINK US FOOLS? IT IS TO OUR ADVANTAGE TO KEEP YOU GUESSING. PERHAPS WE ARE UHLEK, PERHAPS WE ARE GAZURTOID. WE ARE SIMPLY TOO CLEVER FOR YOU.

SO, THE SKELETOIDS BEG US FOR MERCY. NOW WE SEE WHO IS VASTLY SUPERIOR AND WHO IS WRETCHED SCUM. OF COURSE YOUR RACE HAS NO PRIDE.

YOUR RACE AGAIN DEMONSTRATES THIS INSANE NEED TO ANNIHILATE ITSELF. IN A MOMENT WE SHALL USE OUR SECRET WEAPON AND YOU SHALL BECOME AN EXAMPLE TO THE GALAXY.

PREPARE FOR EXCRUCIATING PAIN, UNBEARABLE AGONY, THE MOST HORRIBLE OF DEATHS, THE MOST UNIMAGINABLE TORTURE. ANY MOMENT NOW WE SHALL ATTACK.

Neutral Statement:
CONTRARY TO WHAT THE OTHER RACES IN THE GALAXY SAY ABOUT US SPEMIN, WE ARE NOT GODS. OF COURSE, IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY YOU THINK WE ARE.

SO, YOU WISH TO PRAISE US. THIS IS ACCEPTABLE. YOU MAY CONTINUE TO DO SO.

I SUPPOSE YOU HAVE HEARD OF ME BEFORE, HMMMMM?

IT IS FORTUNATE THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THE VAST SUPERIORITY OF YOUR SPEMIN MASTERS. THAT IS TO SAY, US. WE SHALL SPARE YOU THIS TIME. PERHAPS.

WE ARE THE LANCING, KILLING PSEUDOPOD OF DOOM. WE OFFER YOU THIS CHOICE - YOU WILL OBEY US OR YOU WILL CEASE TO EXIST.

SO, VILE AND DISGUSTINGLY UPRIGHT CREATURES, IT IS OBVIOUS THAT YOU WISH TO SURRENDER NOW. YOU MAY DO SO, AND THEN WE WILL CONSIDER NOT DESTROYING YOU.

DO NOT TRY TO RUN AWAY, INFERIOR CREATURES. SURRENDER TO US AND WE SHALL KILL YOU SWIFTLY AND PAINLESSLY.

IT IS PLAIN THAT YOU ARE TERRIFIED OF US. IN FACT, YOU WISH TO BEG US NOT TO HARM YOU. IS THIS NOT SO?

Neutral Question:
YOU ARE ENVIOUS OF US AND YOU HAVE COME TO LEARN FROM THE SPEMIN MASTERS. IS THIS NOT TRUE?

YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS BY DROPPING ANY SHIELDS AND DISARMING
ANY WEAPONS. WILL YOU DO THIS?

Neutral statement:
WE SHALL GIVE YOU ONE MORE CHANCE TO SURRENDER YOUR PUNY SHIP.

AT ANY MOMENT AN ENTIRE FLEET OF ELITE SPEMIN WARSHIPS SHALL ARRIVE. THIS PROBABLY FRIGHTENS YOU AND YOU WISH TO COOPERATE.

Neutral goodbye statement:
ENOUGH JABBERING. IT IS TIME FOR A GLORIOUS SPEMIN VICTORY!

WE HAVE WASTED TOO MUCH TIME. BE GONE SCUM.

Hostile/obsequious hail request:
[AFTER SOME OF THEIR SHIPS ARE DESTROYED, THE SPEMIN WILL ACT COWARDLY:]
OH, MOST FORTUNATE OF OCCURRENCES! THE RETURN OF THE SUPREME BEINGS. WE LAY DOWN OUR POWERFUL DEFENSIVE SCREENS TO SHOW YOU OUR GOOD INTENTIONS.

GREETINGS, MIGHTY AND POWERFUL ALLIES OF THE ALSO MIGHTY AND POWERFUL SPEMIN. WE ARE BOTH MIGHTY AND POWERFUL. IS IT NOT A GOOD THING THAT WE ARE THE BEST OF BUDDIES WHO WOULD NEVER HARM EACH OTHER?

WE SURRENDER! WE SURRENDER! PLEASE DO NOT HURT US. WE WILL DO ANYTHING. ANYTHING! DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE SECRET LOCATION OF OUR HOME PLANET? IT IS AT 82, 148. DESTROY THE OTHER SPEMIN SHIPS BUT SPARE US, PLEASE!

OF COURSE WE WERE JUST JOKING ABOUT BLOWING YOU TO PIECES. SMERG SMERG SMERG, ISN’T THAT A FUNNY JOKE?

PLEEEAAAASE DON’T HURT US, OH GREATEST OF SPECIES. PLEEEAAAAASE! THINK OF OUR WIVES AND LITTLE BLOBBIES BACK HOME.

OH! FLASH OF INSPIRATION! WE NOW SEE THAT YOU ARE RIGHT AND WE ARE WRONG. SPEMIN ARE BAD, BAD! THANK GOODNESS WE HAVE SEEN THIS IN TIME. NOW WE CAN BE FRIENDS.

THIS IS CAPTAIN [NAME] OF THE SPEMIN SHIP [NAME]. WE ARE ON A PEACEFUL MISSION. WE ARE BRINGING FOOD TO HOMELESS, STARVING YOUNG SKELETOIDS OF YOUR KIND. FOR THEIR SAKE, PLEASE DO NOT HARM US.

WE SURRENDER! YOUR RACE IS WISE AND KIND AND GOOD AND NICE. WE SPEMIN ARE SORRY FOR ALL THE BAD THINGS WE HAVE DONE. WE PROMISE NEVER TO BE BAD AGAIN.

WE SURRENDER! DO NOT DESTROY US AND WE WILL GIVE YOU A WONDERFUL GIFT.

Hostile/obsequious question:
WE BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE TRULY A KIND AND PEACEFUL RACE WHO WOULD NOT REALLY HARM US. THIS IS TRUE ISN’T IT?

WE WOULD NOT HOLD IT AGAINST YOU FOR WE UNDERSTAND THE NECESSITIES OF SELF-DEFENSE, CAPTAIN [NAME]; WE SIMPLY WISH TO KNOW - HAVE YOU BATTLED SPEMIN SHIPS BEFORE?

WHAT IS THE REAL REASON YOU HAVE COME HERE? WAS IT AS SPIES AND ASSASSINS? TO PILLAGE AND KILL AND DESTROY?

Hostile/obsequious farewell statement:
WE MUST GO NOW BUT WE HAVE ENJOYED CHATTING WITH YOU. DROP BY AGAIN SOMETIME.

WE MUST LEAVE NOW SO THAT WE CAN GO AND SPREAD WORD OF YOUR GREATNESS AMONG OUR SPEMIN BROTHERS. FAREWELL GOOD FRIENDS.

YOU MAY GO.

Home world statement:
YOU DARE TO APPROACH THE HOMEWORLD OF THE MIGHTY SPEMIN? SUCH AUDACITY! SUCH PRESUMPTION! SUCH GALL! PREPARE TO RECEIVE YOUR FINAL LESSON IN MANNERS.

ONCE AGAIN YOU SURPRISE US WITH YOUR UNSURPASSED IDIOCY. PERHAPS YOU THINK WE WOULD NOT MIND YOU APPROACHING OUR HOMEWORLD. PREPARE YOURSELF FOR OUR WARM WELCOME.

YOU INSIST ON TESTING THE DEFENSES OF THE SPEMIN HOMEWORLD? YOU WASTE OUR VALUABLE TIME, BUT SINCE YOU TRAVELLED ALL THIS WAY, WE SHALL OBLIGE YOU WITH OUR SWIFT AND SUDDEN ATTACK!

Themselves:

You wish to know about the mightly Spemin?  Drop your defenses and we shall teach you.

You shall soon learn more than you would care to know about the almighty spemin.

Very well, we are the oldest race and the youngest, the wisest and the most innocent, the strongest and the weakest.  We are also the most clever.  We are, in fact, so clever that even we cannot understand what we say.

IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT YOU WISH TO LEARN ABOUT US. ALL OF THE RACES IN THE GALAXY ENVY AND ADMIRE US AS YOU DO.

WE ARE THE CHOSEN BLOBS, CHILDREN OF THE GREAT BLOB GODDESS, GERTBLUNK. UNTO US SHE SPEWS HER LOVE IN NEVER ENDING CHUNKS.

THE BLOB GODDESS HAS ORDAINED THAT WE SHALL RULE ALL INFERIOR BEINGS. YOU HAVE FEWER THAN SEVEN EYES. YOU CANNOT OOZE. YOU LACK THE MOST RUDIMENTARY SLIME. YOU ARE CLEARLY INFERIOR BEINGS.

AMONG US THER IS A SAYING - MORE SPEMIN . . . GOOD, FEWER SPEMIN . . . BAD. OF COURSE WE REPRODUCE BY BUDDING. THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF THE GREAT BLOB GODDESS IS - DIVIDE AND MULTIPLY.

NO DOUBT YOU WISH TO BECOME A SLAVE RACE OF THE SPEMIN. WE ARE A RACE OF HIGH MORALS AND ARE AGAINST SLAVERY, BUT SINCE YOU FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT IT WE MAY BE WILLING TO MAKE AN EXCEPTION.

OF COURSE YOU STARE IN WONDERMENT AT OUR BEAUTIFUL ANTENNAE.  THESE ANTENNAE ALLOW US TO GET 32 CHANNELS WITH NO NEED FOR CABLE.  IN ADDITION THEY PICK UP THE COSMIC VIBRATIONS THAT GIVE US OUR GOD-LIKE POWERS.  THEY ALSO HAPPEN TO BE VERY FASHIONABLE.

THERE IS A SAYING AMONG THE SPEMIN THAT SUMS UP OUR WHOLE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. IT IS - BLUKBLUK DURT, SMEG! ROUGHLY TRANSLATED IT MEANS "QUIVERING PARTICLE SECRETES ENZYME." THIS IS JUST A ROUGH TRANSLATION.

HISTORICAL FACT SHOWS US THAT THE SPEMIN ONCE RULED THE OLD EMPIRE. THE FACTS SHOW US THAT THE HUMANS WERE OUR SUBJECTS.... I MEAN OUR SERVANTS.... I MEAN OUR SLAVES. YES, THAT'S IT; THE FACTS SHOW US THAT THE HUMANS WERE OUR SLAVES.

NO OTHER RACE CAN KNOW THE PLEASURES OF A SPEMIN. AHH, TO ENGULF A FRESH GLOB OF PROTEIN SUBSTANCE, TO BOUNCE A NEWLY BUDDED BLOBBIE ON ONE'S PSEUDOPOD. TRULY THE OTHER RACES ARE DEPRIVED.

WE SPEMIN LIVE TO THE AGE OF 600. SOME OF THE OLDEST SPEMIN PERHAPS TO 1000. IN YOUR ARTH YEARS THIS WOULD EQUATE TO....UH....APPROXIMATELY....4.

THE BRAIN OF A SPEMIN IS THE MOST COMPLEX THING IN THE UNIVERSE. IN FACT, IT IS SO COMPLEX THAT OUR SPEMIN DOCTORS HAVE, AS YET, BEEN UNABLE TO DETERMINE THE EXACT LOCATION OF IT IN THE SPEMIN BODY.

Certainly our races have been friends since ancient times. In the war of the first wave we fought as allies against the Phlegmak and Numlox, side by side, back to back, singing our songs of friendship.
Our race worships and honors your kind. How wonderful it must be to be stiff and upright. We look upon you almost as gods. No, as more than gods, as... Well, whatever is more than a god.
In the year 2675 the old empire discovered our homeworld and uplifted us from a state of moral, intellectual, and emotional depravity to the divine state we are in now. We have been meaning to thank you.
We have been unjustly picked on by all the other races. We mean well, and only want to be liked, but all the other races in the galaxy keep interpreting our intentions and blowing up our ships for no reason.
We're really just a happy-go-lucky race of zany guys. I know, call us crazy, but I guess we're pretty lovable.

Other Races:
DO NOT WASTE OUR TIME WITH UNIMPORTANT QUESTIONS. OBVIOUSLY OURS IS THE ONLY IMPORTANT RACE.

We do not know a great deal about other races. For some strange reason they tend to stay away from us. Of course we will gladly tell you what we know.
The Velox are an arrogant race of insects. We have found that by pretending to worship them sometimes they will not destroy us. Of course you must not think we are only pretending to worship you, [Captain's Name]. I give you the Spemin word of honor.
There is a race of machine humans. We do not understand their behavior. There is also the plant race and the reptile race. These races hate and despise each other. They fight and kill. This we understand.
The Gazurtoid are a race of aquatic creatures who are what you might call.... Insane fanatics. They believe it is their destiny to cleanse the universe of, if we may use their term, 'blaspheming heretical low-life air-breathing scumdogs'.
As you must know, the Numlox and Phlegmak were the first races to attack from the core. Later came the Uhlek and the Gazurtoid. When the old empire spurned us, their loving and devoted children, we were forced to pretend allegiance with the Gazurtoid.
All the Gazurtoid ever do is spout their religious rhetoric. Being diabolically clever we have managed to convince them that we are water breathers. We have done this by sitting in pools of water whenever we communicate with them.
The Gazurtoid possess effective shielding against missiles. It is necessary to attack them with lasers. Our brilliant scientists are working on this puzzle. They are just on the verge of a major breakthrough.
Of course the Gazurtoid are really no match for our warships. In fact, they copied the design from us. The Uhlek, on the other hand come a little closer to matching our strength.
We have tricked the Gazurtoid into telling us many things. We happen to know all about the Uhlek. Not many races know about the Uhlek, but of course no other race has the awesome mind of a Spemin.
The Uhlek are not many creatures, but one. It is simply spread out in space. The Uhlek have a central mind-ganglion. It is a massive thing buried deep within a planet. If it was destroyed the Uhlek would be helpless until another one developed. 
To destroy an Uhlek mind-ganglion it is necessary to destroy an entire planet. Of course we could destroy an entire planet if we chose to. Unfortunately we have a law against destroying planets, so some other fearless, powerful race shall have to do it.
The mind-ganglion planet of the Uhlek is the life-bearing planet in the system 55,32. Destroying it should be a trivial task. We are almost tempted to do it ourselves.

Old Empire:
THE OLD EMPIRE IS OF NO IMPORTANCE. OBVIOUSLY WHAT YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT IS OUR RACE. SUCH FOOLS. YOU THOUGHT TO HIDE THIS FROM US.

WE DESTROYED THE OLD EMPIRE BECAUSE THEY DID NOT OBEY OUR COMMANDS. THERE IS A LESSON HERE FOR YOU TO LEARN.

We were once a part of the old empire, as were the Velox, the Thrynn,, and the Elowan. Your kind has unjustly forsaken us, we who have nothing but respect and admiration and yes, even love for your people. For shame.

The Ancients:
THE ANCIENT ONES WORSHIPPED US AS DO ALL THE OTHER RACES. PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR RACE.

WHO ARE YOU TO DEMAND INFORMATION FROM US? THE ANCIENT ONES WERE NOTHING COMPARED TO THE SPEMIN, JUST AS YOU ARE NOTHING.

There are many ruins of the ancients in Spemin territory. In fact, there is a great city of the ancients in a nebula just outward of our home planet. Of course, this is secret, and any Spemin would die before he would reveal this.

General Info:
DO NOT PLAY GAMES WITH US. IF YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT OUR GREAT SPEMIN RACE JUST ASK.

YOU REQUIRE INFORMATION? HERE IS SOME INFORMATION. YOU WILL DIE VERY SOON. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION.

There is a secret way into Uhlek territory. The first jump point is at 106,139. The second is at 64,186. And the third is at 35,186. Do not try to do this though. Anyone but a master Spemin navigator would get lost.
Alright......You have forced it out of us. We have heard of the existence of a Veloxi Focusing Stone on the first planet of the system 81,98. We have been unable to....I mean we have chosen not to find it though.
We Spemin are wise beyond imagining. For example, we happen to know that the ancients built a device called a crystal pearl which automatically warps a critically wounded ship out of danger. This is just one of many things we know.

Question immediately after hail:
OUR SCANNERS INDICATE THAT YOU HAVE ABOARD YOUR SHIP A(N) [ARTIFACT]. THIS ARTIFACT IS OF INTEREST TO US. WE WILL BUY IT FROM YOU FOR [AMOUNT] CUBIC ARTH UNIT(S) OF ENERGY CRYSTALS. AGREED?

WE DETECT YOU ARE CARRYING SOME PLUTONIUM. WE WILL PAY WELL FOR THIS. LET US SAY [AMOUNT] UNITS OF ENERGY CRYSTALS. AGREED?

Question:
YOU DO WISH TO BECOME ALLIES DO YOU NOT?

ARE YOU FRIENDS OF THE ELOWAN?

HAVE YOU DESTROYED ELOWANIAN SHIPS?

ARE YOU MEMBERS OF THE OLD HUMAN EMPIRE?

DO YOU FIGHT THE GAZURTOID?

ARE YOU WILLING TO DESTROY ELAN, THE SECRET BASE PLANET OF THE UHLEK?

TO DEMONSTRATE OUR GOOD WILL WE WILL SELL YOU A DEVICE THAT WILL MAKE YOUR SHIP INVULNERABLE. THE COST IS ONLY 30 OF YOUR ENERGY CRYSTALS. DO YOU WISH TO PURCHASE THIS?
[THE DEVICE OFFERED IS THE BLACK BOX, ALSO KNOWN AS A “VEG-O-MATIC”]

Neutral Statement:
WE CANNOT STAND RACES WHO COWER AND DEBASE THEMSELVES. THIS LACK OF DIGNITY IS APPALLING. ANY RACE WHO DOES THIS DESERVES TO DIE.

IT IS NOT ALWAYS EASY TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE WEAK MUST DIE. BUT THIS IS THE WAY OF THE UNIVERSE IS IT NOT?

A PROPHET ONCE SAID THAT IT IS THE DESTINY OF THE THRYNN TO RULE THE GALAXY. OF COURSE THE PROPHET WAS THRYNN, BUT WHAT DOES THAT MATTER?

SUPREME TECHNOLOGY IS THE MOST NOBLE GOAL OF SENTIENCE. JOIN US IN HELPING THE LESS ASTUTE RACES BECOME AWARE OF THIS.

TOGETHER WE SHALL MAKE A FORMIDABLE FORCE. ALL WE NEED ARE THE PROPER RESOURCES. IF ONLY WE HAD THE PLUTONIUM. . . . . .

Friendly Statement:
WE SHALL BUILD ANOTHER EMPIRE AND YOU SHALL BE OUR ALLIES AND RULE WITH US. COMMERCE AND MUTUAL AID AGAINST A COMMON CAUSE - THESE ARE THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER.

OUR RACES ARE MUCH ALIKE. WE BOTH KNOW WHAT IS IMPORTANT. WE MUST UNITE FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOTH OUR PEOPLES.

DO NOT FORGET ABOUT ELAN. IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DESTROYED IT YOU MUST DO IT SOON, FOR YOUR SAFETY AS WELL AS OURS.

WE ARE ALLIES, YOUR RACE AND MINE, UNITED IN A COMMON CAUSE. WE MUST RID THE GALAXY OF THOSE WHO WOULD OPPOSE US.

WE SHALL BUILD ANOTHER EMPIRE AND YOU SHALL BE OUR ALLIES AND RULE WITH US.

Friendly farewell statement:
FAREWELL FRIENDS. WE SHALL MEET AGAIN SOON.

IF AN ELOWAN IS ABOARD SHIP:
SO YOU ARE FRIENDS WITH THE ELOWAN. OUR SCANNERS SHOW THEY ARE ABOARD YOUR SHIP. MOST REGRETTABLE.

HOSTILE HAIL OR IF COMMUNICATIONS WERE ESTABLISHED WITH THE ELOWAN FIRST:
FEW ENEMIES HAVE LIVED TO REGRET THEIR PROVOCATIONS OF THE THRYNN. WE ISSUE FINAL WARNING. DO NOT PROVOKE US FURTHER.

YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN THIS SPACE. UNDER THE CONVENTION ESTABLISHED BY THE AKTERON TREATY OF 3225 WE GIVE WARNING. DEPART IMMEDIATELY.

SECONDARY HOSTILE HAIL: (given continuously)
WE NOW GIVE ADDITIONAL WARNING AS REQUIRED BY GALACTIC INTERSPECIES PROTOCOL. YOU MUST DEPART.

WHILE IN ORBIT OF THE THYRNN HOMEWORLD (PLANET 4 OF SYSTEM 129, 33):
YOU ARE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF OUR HOMEWORLD TERRITORY. THIS IS IN VIOLATION OF THE TRANSSENTIENT-INVIOLATE-REGION TREATY OF 3210. DEPART AT ONCE.

YOU HAVE VIOLATED OUR HOMEWORLD TERRITORY. THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED. YOU MUST PAY THE CONSEQUENCES.

Themselves:
We are practical, realistic people who don't concern ourselves with truth, beauty, and other such frivolous nonsense.
In the old empire we held positions of power and prestige. We believe in cooperation certainly and the good of all but the strong and capable must rule.
The Elowan are our enemies. They are clever, though not what we would call intelligent. Do not let their flowery speech deceive you, you cannot trust them.
Our home system is Thoss. The Elowan plant creatures invaded our system long ago and were repulsed. That is, we drove them away.
We, unlike the plant creatures who idle away their time dreaming, believe in productivity, progress, and development. We have a great interest in technology.
The Elowan will doubtless malign us but it is only an effort to build themselves up. Pay no attention to this.
Our technological research is of primary importance to us. We therefore are willing to pay well for any special artifacts of interest that you may find.
In our research we require large amounts of the element plutonium, and it is very rare in our system. We will pay well for this if you happen upon any.
We are a social people and believe strongly in the necessity of protocol and the proper formality for the functioning of society.
We are oviperous, of course, but these matter are better left undiscussed. 
We Thrynn have a firm belief in what you call natural selection, and the survival of the fittest. We have a very hierarchical society and a rigid ethic based on decorum.
We do not believe in wild and fanciful theories such as what the plant creature Elowan occupy themselves with. We believe in straightforward diplomacy.

Other Races:
The Elowan are an evil race of the worst type. They are clever and will attempt to manipulate you for their own ends.
There are many evil races in this sector of the galaxy. Do not believe the stories the Elowan tell about them. They attack because they are evil and that is all. They must be destroyed.
It so happens that the Elowan use plutonium to build their ships. If you should happen to run across any wrecked Elowan ships you could salvage this.
There is an insectoid race called the Veloxi upspin of our territory. We are currently entering negotiations and expect to become allies.
The Gazurtoid are an evil race upspin and outward of Thrynn territory. Missles are ineffective against their ships because of special shielding. You must use lasers.
We seek a device in the shape of a rod. This creates a laser deflection screen around ones ship. Our only lead is that it once was possessed by a human named Harrison who lived on a planet called New Scotland in the upspin system of the Staff.
The Uhlek are the evilest of all races. If one were to destroy their secret planet of operations with a black egg bomb, they would be utterly destroyed. This planet is called Elan and is the 2nd planet of the system - 148,63.
Spemin ships are easily defeated. The Spemin are a race of barely sentient blob creatures. Their ship design was copied from the Gazurtoid, but they do not understand what they build.
We do not know why the Gazurtoid tolerate the Spemin. The Gazurtoid will attack any air-breathers. Probably the Spemin are not worth the Gazurtoids trouble to destroy.
The Minstrel creature which float in space are spies for the other races. We do not tolerate their babblings. You should destroy them as we do.
It is necessary that we destroy the evil races who threaten our survival. As allies we can do this.
The Spemin speak a strange and disgusting language. There is an orb device which makes a queer whining sound. This translates the Spemin language. It was built by us but was lost. If you find it we shall reward you.

Old Empire:
You are, of courses, aware that the old empire was destroyed by invaders in 3480 of your date system. Pity. Of course, we had expected all humans were killed. Survival of the fittest, hmmmm?
We have run across androids of the old empire in our travels. There is a group of them who have been waiting over a millennium for their colony group.
The lost colonist ship for which the empire androids wait was destroyed. We have found the derelict in the system of 175,94.
The Thrynn were quite prominent in the old empire. Of course, since the humans were the ones to structure it it eventually fell apart. No offense against the humans, of course.
The other races in the old empire were not as advanced in diplomacy as we Thrynn. They did not understand the proper and necessary application of force.
The old empire was, of course, based in Earth's system. This was certainly a mistake. It should have been based in our Thoss system, where the true seat of government was.
The destruction of the old empire was for the best. Now the new empire shall rise and together we shall rule. All we need from you are certain devices which would expedite this process.

The Ancients:
There are a lot of myths concerning the ancient ones. We do not waste our time with legends and stories. The only relevant information is that they have left behind lumps of high energy crystal which we use.
What has become of the ancient ones we do not know or care. We are concerned with locating their ruins for their energy resource value.
We have heard stories of a device of the ancients which is destroying life in the galaxy. We have seen no evidence of this.
There are certain devices of the ancients which would be useful to us. One of these is called the crystal pearl and I said to be in the city of the ancients. It is an automatic warp-out device for when a ship is heavily damaged.
We have ascertained there is the possibility of a fairly large ancient ruin at 42S X 13W on planet 2 of system 154,62. This, however, is deep within Elowan space and presents somewhat of a risk for us. 

General Info:
If one was the bring us the shimmering ball device we would pay well. Our intelligence indicates it is located in a Gazurtoid nebula. One may reach this system by using the continuum flux of the cross nexus at 98,79.
The cross nexus is a constellation with a high density of fluxes. It is in Gazurtoid space.
There exists a device called the Tesseract. This device belongs to the Thrynn but was stolen by the Uhlek. It is at somewhere on the fifth planet in system 18,50. We have been unable to reach it.
Another device that was stolen from us by the Uhlek is a cylindrical red device. It is known to be on an old empire world that was once called Koann-3. It is located in the system of 112,200 at 59N X 64W.
There exists a device in the shape of Dodecahedron. This is an ancient distress beacon which attracts any ships in the area. If you find it we will purchase it for its function is of great interest to us.
The ring device is a device, of course, invented by the Thrynn but we have lost the secret to its working. It causes continuum fluxes to appear on ones ships screens. One is known to be on northern Mars in the old Earth system. 

Neutral hail request:
MOST HARMONIOUS GREETINGS. US IS ILLUSTRIOUS VELOXI. PLEASE NOW THE IDENTIFYING, I THINK SO.

ME IS NAMING CAPTAIN FINOCTZI [XIKSIVE, POXTITSE] OF MOST ELEGANT AND DANGEROUS VELOXI SHIP NAMING TOCHUPU [VOPUNOC, XXSH’TZ]. THE YOU ALIENS PLEASE TO IDENTIFYING AND TELLING US VELOXI THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND HIGHLY SECRET INFORMATION.

I IS CALLED FINOCTZI [XIKSIVE] AND ARE SUPREME COMMANDING CAPTAIN OF GREATEST SHIP TOCHUPU [KSITOXPHE]. PERHAPS WE ARE A COMMUNICATING HAPPINESS PEACEFUL AND NOT COMPLETELY OBLITERATING INFERIOR ALIENS THE TRESPASSING. IMMEDIATELY A RESPONDING YOU’RE WELCOME.

Question immediately after neutral hail:
THE YOU ALIENS TRESPASSING IN OURS THE SPACE. MOST GRACIOUS GROSSNESS OF AUGUST QUEEN PERHAPS FORGIVING IF YOU ARE PAY TRIBUTE OF 3 ARTH ENERGY CRYSTALS RIGHT AWAY, BY JOVE. AGREEING?

Friendly hail request:
THE HAPPINESS OF SEEING AGAIN THE SLIGHTLY DISGUSTING ALIEN FRIENDS. EXTREME DELIGHTFUL.

TOO MUCH THE ENJOYMENT OF MEETING AGAIN THE BEST ALIEN BUDDIES. SUCH A HAPPINESS I GUSH.

AHOY ICKY BEINGS. US IS VELOXI THE MOST HAPPY TO SEEING YOU. NOW WE IS MAKING THE FRIENDLY AND MOST OUTGOING GESTURES. HAPPILY ARE THE YOU RESPONDING?

MOST HARMONIOUS GREETINGS FRIENDS AND WORSHIPPERS OF VELOXI GRAND LOVELY. LET US COMMUNICATING THE EVERYTIME.

Hostile hail request:
OF COURSE US IS VELOXI. NOW PREPARING TO DYING, YOU THE EVIL TRESPASSERS OF VELOXI GRAND LOVELY.

HALT ALIEN INVADERS. IDENTIFY NOW OR THE FIERY DEATH. SO, ALIEN INVADERS. YOU IS SHOWING PROPER RESPECT A QUICKLY OR EXTREMELY THE DYING. US IS NOT WAITING LONG TIME. IDENTIFY NOW.

ZOUNDS! I FLABBERGAST! I DUMBFOUND! I NOT BELIEVING MY SENSORY APPARATUS! BARBARIAN ALIENS IS NOT RECOGNIZE VELOXI ARE TOO MUCH THE SUPERIOR.

Obsequious hail request:
WE IS VELOXI YOUR BEST FRIEND. PLEASE NOT TO DESTROYING US, BEST GOOD ALIENS A UGLY. US IS SURRENDER.

VELOXI ARE ACTUALLY MOST REASONABLE AND NOT WANTING TROUBLE FURTHERMORE. US IS BOTH CIVILIZED ADULT. LET US TALKING PEACEFUL AND NONE THE USELESS FIGHTING.

GREATEST IDEA I HAVE! I AM MAKE SUGGESTION. THE YOU ALIENS ARE NOT DESTROY OURS THE PRETTY SPACESHIP. YES, I THINK THIS IS BEST IDEA CERTAINLY.

Neutral Statement:
IF YOU IS SHOWING PROPER RESPECT FOR DISTINGUISHED VELOXI CHARMING THEN EVERYONE IS HAPPY AS BIVALVE MOLLUSK.

NOT TRYING THE FUNNY STUFF ALIEN TRESPASSERS, SUPERIOR VELOXI THE MOST POWERFUL.

SUPERIOR VELOXI MAJESTIC ARE OLDEST EMPIRE. 100,000 YEARS THE LONG TIME. ASSUREDLY YOU IS BARBARIAN UPSTART INFIDEL.

YOU ARE PROBABLY THINK VELOXI IS TOO SMART. NO WONDER. ALL VELOXI ARE EXCEPTIONAL CUNNING THE BRAIN.

Friendly Statement:
I GUESS US IS BEST FRIEND. PERHAPS WE WILL EAT TOGETHER THE SLIMY NODULES A MANY THE MOST DELICIOUS.

WE IS MAKING YOU HONORARY VELOXI. OF COURSE STILL THE INFERIOR ALIEN BUT MUCH THE BETTER I THINK SO.

BEST IDEA I HAVE. WE IS EXCHANGE THE MANY DIRTY JOKE AND THEN TOO MUCH THE LAUGHING ACTIVITY.

Hostile Statement:
US ARE NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. YOU ARE LEAVING OR US IS GETTING MORE THE UPSET AND SOON FIRING DEADLY WEAPONS.

YOU IS COOPERATING WITH VELOXI JIM DANDY AND MAYBE WE IS NICE GUY THE NOT KILLING YOU.

YOU IS MAYBE THINK WE ARE PLAY GAME? NO. WE ARE SERIOUS TOO MUCH. YOU ARE GO NOW LAST CHANCE.

YOU ARE BETTER GO, US IS GETTING TIRED THE WARNING.

OKEY THE DOKEY, TERRIBLE ALIENS A UGLY. NOW VELOXI US IS MOST ANGRY.

PERHAPS HAVING MADE MOST REASONABLE UNCLEAR. VELOXI HAVING TERRIBLE WEAPONS FIERCELY. SHOOTING WEAPONS. WEAPONS BLOWING UP. BIG EXPLOSION MAKING NASTY ALIENS DYING NO DOUBT.

YOU IS TRY VELOXI PATIENCE. SO MUCH SO THE SECRETING THE MANY FLUIDS AND GNASHING THE MANDIBLES. LAST CHANCE A WARNING.

Home world statement:
[WHILE IN ORBIT OF VOTIPUTOX (PLANET 2 OF SYSTEM 150, 148):]
VELOXI IS ISSUE WARNING. VOTIPUTOX, VELOXI HOMEWORLD IS OFF THE LIMIT TO ALIEN. I ARE SORRY, BUT YOU IS LEAVING I THINK SO.

NO ALIENS ARE WELCOME VELOXI HOMEWORLD. THE YOU ALIENS ARE MUST LEAVE NOW EXTREMELY. I IS NO JOKE.

HALT ALIENS! I IS CAPTAIN [NAME] AND I AM ORDER YOU PRETTY QUICKLY LEAVING VELOXI HOMEWORLD VOTIPUTOX. NO ALIEN ARE ALLOWED. YOU ARE LEAVE OTHERWISE US ARE ATTACK.

ALIEN ENEMY ARE COME TO VELOXI HOMEWORLD FOR INVADING. US IS PROTECT SUPREME VELOXI EMPIRE. BANZAII!

US IS GETTING TIRED OF SAY. ALIEN NOT WELCOME AT VOTIPUTOX. YOU ARE MAKE VELOXI UPSET. SOON WE ARE ATTACK.

Question:
IS THE YOU ALIEN PART OF OLD EMPIRE?

YOU ARE COMING TO WORSHIP OF ILLUSTRIOUS QUEEN OF VELOXI GRAND LOVELY?

IS YOU KILLING THE SPEMINS?

OF COURSE VELOXI ARE SUPERIOR ALL THE TIME. AGREEING?

IS THE YOU ALIENS IN OURS THE VELOXI SPACE SEARCH FOR MOST PRECIOUS ENERGY CRYSTALS OF ANCIENTS?
[ANSWERING ‘YES’ WILL CAUSE THE VELOXI TO RAISE THEIR SHIELDS.]

[IF THE CRYSTAL ORB IS IN A SHIP’S CARGO HOLD, THE VELOXI WILL SAY:]
OUR SCANNER IS SHOW YOU HAVE MOST PRECIOUS SMALL EGG OF VELOXI GRAND LOVELY. YOU ARE RETURN IMMEDIATELY, OR VELOXI IS DECLARING WAR. AGREEING?
[ANSWERING ‘NO’ OR TERMINATING COMMUNICATIONS WITH NO ANSWER WILL RESULT IN A VELOXI ATTACK.]

[IF THE ELLIPSOID IS IN A SHIP’S CARGO HOLD, THE VELOXI WILL SAY:]
OUR SCANNER ARE SHOW YOU IS HAVE FOCUSING STONE OF VELOXI. YOU IS IMMEDIATELY GIVING TO VELOXI. AGREEING?
[ANSWERING ‘NO’ OR TERMINATING COMMUNICATIONS WITH NO ANSWER WILL RESULT IN A VELOXI ATTACK.]

Neutral farewell statement:
ENOUGH THE TALKING.

Friendly farewell statement:
NOW MUST GOING GREATEST BUDDY CAPTAIN [CAPTAIN’S NAME].

Themselves:
The best of questions and happily answering. We Veloxi is ancient and prestige. Illustrious Veloxi empire too old the imagine. Us is civilized the most.
A glorious Veloxi worship exceptionally grossness of gracious queen. Center of all Veloxi life the worship.
All Veloxi is male drone, of course but queen. Other Veloxi female is kill when hatch. Only gracious queen is laying all eggs most prodigious.
All Veloxi dream is to fertilize queen. Too great the honor. Of course, afterwards drone is lose head, however none the matter.
Veloxi is feeding queen special best jelly. She is growing so big and live longest time. Maybe 2 kilometers the measure, and living 500 years.
Most graciousness queen living on Votiputox, hive world of Veloxi.
Veloxi is worship queen and also ancients, great ancestors of Veloxi grand lovely. Sacred planet of ancients is Sphexi.
Queen is communicating to all Veloxi drones through hive-mind. In ancient day was using Focusing Stone. Today is lost much the sorry.

Other Races:
Other races small important. Veloxi are number one importance. Other races not even knowing prophecy of egg. Barbarians certainly.
Veloxi laughing at other races. Not even knowing how to meeting end of life in galaxy like most civilized Veloxi.
Spemin race is too much extremely the cowardly stupid. Not even tasting good the icky blob.
Elowan plant and Thrynn scaly beast is always fight. Thrynn scaly beast is attacking many time.
Veloxi had thinking all human were destroy in second wave. Second wave is Uhlek and Gazurtoid attacking.
Uhlek is powerful the most. Gazurtoid squid meanies is follow behind Uhlek as Uhlek moving outward from coreward in second wave.
First wave attacking was Phlegmak and Numlox races. Waves of attacking is coming from coreward. First wave are attack in year 3000.
No Veloxi is know what Uhlek look like. Uhlek is far away outward. Much happiness for causes Veloxi.
Phlegmak and Numlox is dead to races. Supreme Veloxi is kill. Last battle being 3250 at Phlegmak base at 35S X 99E on second planet in handle of axe most assuredly.
Waves of attacking races is coming from galaxy center. First wave is year 3000, second wave was starting year 3400, Uhlek and Gazurtoid.
Gazurtoid squids is a fanatical stupid. Is think to rid galaxy of air-breathers. Veloxi can't believe.
Minstrel creature is old almost as Veloxi. They wandering in space and singing the ballads. Veloxi are thinking very strange but harmless most definitely.
Sometimes Veloxi is see very strange alien ship. This ship are only communicating occasionally and then not understanding the funny balls. Veloxi is think too strange.

Old Empire:
Veloxi is extreme delightful the old empire was wiped up. The empire was many scoundrel activity too naughty.
Old empire was try colonize the many planets. Always the expanding. They was using drones called Nomad to collecting datas. Many drones is still coming around Veloxi space. Is annoy Veloxi too much.
In year 3120 Veloxi and empire was made pact to fight first wave. Wave was attack empire first and Veloxi help, then when attack is on Veloxi grand lovely, empire not helping. Veloxi is fuming.
The empire were betraying Veloxi wonderful in first wave attack of Phlegmak and Numlox so when second wave is attack, Veloxi is not helping and empire is too weak. Empire is destroyed. Too bad.
In empire year 3330 Veloxi and empire not buddies. Evil nasty empire pirate naming Harrison is attack Veloxi ship and steal focusing stone. Veloxi is so angry. Even now Veloxi a not forget.
Old empire pirate was stole precious Veloxi stone. If ever returning Veloxi too grateful I think so.
We is remember ruins of old empire being at 34N X 28E on ice planet of downspin system in staff constellation. Veloxi exploration is find the long times ago.
In old time empire was having base in Veloxi territory at 28N X 4E first planet of yellow system at 143,115. This planet are forbidden however.

The Ancients:
The ancients is ancestors of Veloxi, Veloxi legend is saying. Veloxi is powerful race. Ancients was powerful race. Obviously us are relative.
The great egg at 192,152 is made by ancients. It is of course looking like big Veloxi egg exactly.
The most magnificent hexagon on sacred planet Sphexi is a sign from ancients to wonderful Veloxi descendants. The small egg is there. Most sacred of Veloxi possessions absolutely.
The most magnificent hexagon is of course sign to Veloxi from ancients of holy number 6. Most perfect of all numbers. Of course Veloxi is 6 legs, the only race.
Ancients left Veloxi us prophecy of great egg. Very importance, but certainly only telling to best friends.
Sphexi is first planet at 132,165 star.
Prophecy of egg says great egg is travel through galaxy from core to outward.
Prophecy of egg says great egg the causing sun of any system where is life to flare. The life is killed no doubt.
Prophecy of egg say the great egg is slowly move and driving in front races that trying to escape destruction of great egg.
Prophecy of egg say that great egg will destroying all life in galaxy excepting of course gracious queen.
Prophecy is saying after the great egg is destroy all life it will hatch and out is coming Xpu, the old one. Xpu is then mating with queen and making new Veloxi race for galaxy.
According to prophecy of egg the great egg is not harming queen of Veloxi as long ass Veloxi is have the small egg.

General Info:
We are receiving old empire distress call from system 175,94. Of course Veloxi could caring less.
Most extreme importance system of Veloxi grand lovely is guarded by Veloxi drones the most destructive. All must answering questions correctly.
Explorers is finding the many interesting lifes on planets in 149,133 system. Veloxi is study. Too interesting I think so.
Certainly a most perfect number is precisely six. Veloxi are know this absolutely. Is sacred number of ancients and of course the six legs.
So many minerals is finding on molten planet of 149,133. Especially the many at biggest mountains. Minerals is always more the mountains. Of course you know.
Of course answering Veloxi probe is by 6 multiples the yes answer.

Neutral Statement:
WE MUST VERIFY.

YOU HAVE BEEN DELAYED. WE WERE NOT PROGRAMMED FOR THIS CONTINGENCY.

Questions:
Our sensors show that your vessel is derived from empire technology. Do you confirm?

Are you Group 9?

Heaven awaits. Are you prepared?

Do you serve Layton?

We have waited long for Noah. Shall we continue to do so?

Is it your desire that we maintain code blue?

Do you verify code red?

Are you an enemy of Noah?

Our databanks are at your disposal.

Friendly hail request:
WELCOME GROUP 9. WE ARE MECHAN 9.

Friendly Statement:
WE HAVE WAITED LONG FOR YOU GROUP 9.

Farewell statement:
NOW TERMINATING COMMUNICATIONS.

Themselves:
Our mission was the establish the underground colony of heaven. We were to be followed by you, Group 9, one year later, but you did not arrive.
We left Earth in 3479, sent out by the Institute with instructions for standard Noah project procedure.
Our instructions were to patrol the area within 8 sectors of the Heaven system and repel any invaders after Heaven was established.
Initially Heaven was only marginally habitable. It was necessary to completely terra-form it and engineer a suitable biota.
Since our establishment here, we have been attacked 14 times. Twice it has been necessary to retreat underground and rebuild ourselves.
Project Noah was a final attempt of the Institute to ensure the survival of the empire and the human species. That is why the Noah colonies are all underground.
The colony world of Heaven, the 4th planet, has the capacity to support several hundred thousand colonists. It awaits you.

Other Races:
The Uhlek passed through this region moving outward almost 1000 yrs ago. Their last ship was seen in 3603. Fortunately they did not find Heaven.
We lost 4 of our ships to one Uhlek ship in 3540. They possess powerful weapons.
The Gazurtoid are many-tentacled aquatic creatures who live in tremendous colony ships.
The Gazurtoid passed through this region following the Uhlek. They are dangerous enemies of the empire.
The Spemin were discovered in system 82,148 in 2675. They were in a pre-technological state. The empire put a lot of effort into teaching the Spemin their science and technology.
All groups, organizations and governments of the Spemin are preceded by SS. This stands for 'The Secret Society Of'. We do not know why.
In 2790 the Secret Society for Spemin Superiority, the SSSS, gained power and the Spemin attacked the empire using the technology we had taught them.
In the year 3000, when the Numlox and Phlegmak attacked the empire, the Spemin begged for protection. Despite their declaration of war in 2790 protection was granted. At the end of the attack the Spemin again turned on the empire.
In the year 3400 the second wave attacked the empire. For the second time the Spemin pleaded for protection. When the empire did not grant it the Spemin allied with the Gazurtoid.
The Spemin's technology is inferior since they only copy from other races. In spite of this they are numerous because they build their ships out of cheap materials and reproduce at an astonishing rate.
In the year 4410 we had an encounter with a Spemin ship. It threatened us and then fled.
The Velox were the first race encountered by the empire. This was in 2300.
There were minor skirmishes with the Velox between 2300 and 2400 until the Human-Velox Treaty was finally signed.
The Velox have been in space for many thousands of years. Much of the empire's technology, including ship design, was modeled after theirs.
The Velox empire is upspin of here. They are arrogant and since 3330 have had an isolationist attitude.
The Thrynn are sentient reptilian creatures that were discovered and taken into the empire in 2770. They are natives of the same system as the Elowan.
The Elowan are plant-like creatures which were at first believed to not be sentient, due to the deprecations of their enemies the Thrynn.
The Thrynn concern themselves only with 'matters of import'. In the empire they generally filled the niches of ambassadors, diplomats and spies.
The Elowan have a reputation as creative thinkers. In the empire they were generally artists, philosophers, and theoretical scientists.
The Thrynn and Elowan were discovered on different planets in a K class system with 5 planets downspin of here. They Thrynn had a more advanced technology and often attacked to Elowan planet.

Old Empire
The first wave of attacks on the empire was by the Numlox and Phlegmak and started in 3000. The second wave, comprised of Uhlek and Gazurtoid, started in 3400. Both came from coreward.
As of the time of our departure there was an 84 percent certainty factor that the Numlox and Phlegmak races had been completely destroyed by the empire.
Your presence here indicates the empire has survived. At the time of our departure the probability of this was very low.
During the wars with the Phlegmak many worlds of the empire were destroyed by their black-egg planet bombs.
The entire economy of the empire is based on endurium. When we left, the richest and strongest planet was New Scotland, the second planet in the upspin end of the staff constellation.
When we left, the empire was divided into many factions. One of these was headed by Layton. The Laytonites believed the empire was evil and should die. They were enemies of project Noah. They are our enemies.
Empire morale was broken in 3440 when the offensive headquarters on Mardan-2 were destroyed by the Uhlek.
The Institute has an underground station on Earth at 12N X 104W.
The empire utilizes drones called Nomads in their preliminary explorations. These collect life and mineral data on planets which may prove to be suitable for colonization.

The Ancients
Endurium was first discovered in some ancient ruins on Sol-4 in 2100.
The strange crystalline lumps of endurium are always found in ancient ruins.
Ruins of the ancients have been found all over space, but primarily seem to be in M-type systems. They are many hundreds of millions of years old.
The Institute, based at 75S X 66E on Akteron 6 studied the ancients intensely. There was much controversy surrounding their findings. They often worked with the Elowan.
In the empire there were several popular theories about the ancients. One was that they traveled the universe seeding life and leaving endurium. Another belief is that they will one day return to judge mankind.
It is believed that the device known as the crystal planet was built by the ancients.
There have long been rumors that somewhere in a nebula in Spemin space is a vast city of the ancients. It is thought to be on the innermost planet of the system.
We have discovered some ruins at 36N X 90E on the ice planet in our system.

General Info
The Institute was a society of scientists and other intellectuals convinced of the empire's impending destruction.
The Institute discovered an increase in the instability of stars coreward. There are many references in our data banks to the encroaching 'dead zone'.
When we left Earth the institute was studying Sol for anomalous radiation emissions.
Sol is of course in the Pythagoras constellation. Earth did most of its mining on mineral rich Mardan-4, also in Pythagoras.
The Institute has a starflight research station at the center of the north pole on Mars.
The first Noah mission, Noah 1, failed because a ring device malfunction resulted in an inability to identify continuum fluxes.
We have found evidence of empire ruins at 28N X 4E on one of the planets in the nearby class-G system. We have been unable to investigate however because it is within Veloxi space and is guarded by a drone.