First Contact Day · 6:01am Apr 6th, 2023
April 5, 2023 Today we celebrate the -40th anniversary of the day Vulcans made first contact with a weirdo in a cobbled-together spaceship, and the logical race regretted that mistake dearly for centuries to come. But I have to wonder, what if a slightly different race were to have attracted this kind of attention… Behold, an alternate ending to On The Wings of War Surplus Eagles.
First Contact
(Followed by First Headache.)
Mount Aris was quite nearly silent other than the sound of feathers twitching from hundreds of hippogriffs entranced by the sight above them. The huge ship descending out of the sky was nearly as quiet, with only the faint sound of rushing wind as it approached the ground, carrying what the local hippogriffs recognized as a red Yeti Honeybee fighter in a faint blue glow beneath it. There was a faint thump as the smaller craft was placed down on the short-cut grass, then the far larger ship drifted slightly to one side and settled down just as gracefully.
There was almost a rush of worried parents to the bright red craft since their children had vanished into the sky hours ago and the search had grown to encompass even the passing pegasus city of Cloudsdale, which floated within a short distance of the hippogriff mountain. The parental rush was stopped almost at once by Celestia’s cautioning raised wing, and the sight of the happy children inside the small craft waving through the transparent canopy.
Ever so slowly, three odd creatures emerged from the large craft, one deliberate step at a time, and approached Princess Celestia and Luna. They each extended a hand with fingers divided in a peculiar way while the first one nodded briefly at the Royal Sisters.
“Live long and prosper,” said the tall creature. “I am Soval. You do not understand us, but on behalf of the planet Vulcan, we welcome you to the company of other races such as yours who have matured enough to develop warp drive and explore beyond your small planet.”
(continued on the story)
That’ll do Zephram, that’ll do.
Happy First Contact Day!
Of course, this means I must read your story that I must have missed in my Feed.
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Yeah, gotta find and read the rest of it.
Vulcan suck. Ferengii are where its at. To my mind Quark is perhaps one of the few characters who actually held to his guns in the series. He's a jerk and I love it
The only humans I really enjoyed in the genre were the guys from Starcraft and Heinlein.