Knowing the Natives

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Knowing the Natives

-The analysis of the radio spectrum showed a strange low frequency signal, which could somehow be intervening in the neural implants of the crew, perhaps that generated the feeling of anxiety, while they were in the presence of the inhabitants of the north of the continent -said one of the technicians of the laboratory, in his report to the members of the council.

-I understand, is there any way to interfere with that signal? -asked one of the council members.

-Yes, there is no problem with that, I will give you the instructions corresponding to the AI of the ships - replied the technician, who after a pause "listening" to the notification he received for his neural implant added -. Linguistic technicians, who have already adjusted the translation algorithm, believe that it has a good approximation to the language of the race that occupies the rest of the continent.

-With respect to the other race, don't you still have nothing to communicate with them? -asked another member of the council.

-No sir, apart from the strange low-frequency radio signal, we have nothing else, there was no attempt to communicate with us, nor with each other that we could identify. So we have no source for AI training.

A new human spacecraft descended in the middle of the night to the surface of the planet and after choosing one of the apparently largest cities, of the main species of the planet, positioned itself about five hundred meters above it and emitted a greeting on all radio frequencies.

-Greetings, we are the Andromeda fleet, we are on a journey of exploration of the galaxy, we come from a planet that is no longer fit to inhabit it and we have no intention other than to know you and your world -. The AI emitted the message using the peculiar language formed by the infrasound of the intercepted transmissions -. Our fleet will remain in fixed orbit on your continent for thirty days, after that, if we cannot establish communication with you, we will withdraw and continue our journey.

A small unmanned vehicle left one of the ports of the ship and descended to drop, in the middle of an open space a few meters from one of the conical buildings of the city, a gigantic ball that bounced several times, before deflating and letting see a metal capsule of spherical shape, that after rolling a couple of meters extended four skates, which lifted it from the ground, and then opened its outer cover in eight petals, letting you see the contents of its interior, which was what appeared to be a computer with a projection interface.

-We leave for you a station of data and communication, in it you will be able to find a compilation of information about our species, history and lifestyle, in addition you will be able to use it to communicate with us if so wish, our ship will withdraw now and we will continue the observation from the orbit. A similar message will be transmitted to the species that shares the continent with you and that is seated in the north, behind the mountain range. We reiterate that our only intention is to know you.

After this and the return of the descent vehicle, the ship rose and moved vertically until it was lost in the cloud layer, to return to meet the fleet in orbit.

On their return the crew found a great commotion in the fleet, the ship that had descended to fulfill a similar mission, but without transmitting any message, only to leave the capsule, had not yet returned and lost communication with them, it seems that the entire ship descended on the planet and its crew had abandoned it.

In the midst of all the commotion a sudden and surprising message was received through the communicator left to the inhabitants of most of the continent.

-Welcome, we ask you to avoid approaching the Mun who live beyond the northern mountains, please avoid approaching the Mun.

Text of @amart29 and digital art of @xpilar, July 2019

Other stories from the series Andromeda

• Andrómeda / Andromeda
• Mundo Congelado / Frozen World
• Nómadas / Nomads
• Visitantes / Visitors
• Primer Encuentro / First Meet
• Tras Andrómeda / Following Andromeda
• La Declaración de los Capitanes / The Declaration of the Captains
• Ants
• Knowing the Natives

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