...for skipping over most of the process of language learning and translation that would have been necessary to get communication going. (Bad SF author, no cookie for you.)

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"Just think of the potential, Your Highness. With alicorn-based technology, we could..."

"RULE THE GALAXY TOGETHER!"

"...well, er, probably, but it's not exactly what I had in mind."

"The character and training, and therefore the expectations, of the Exploratory Service can perhaps be summed up thus: upon wakening to find herself face-to-face with one of the mythologae, her first question was not 'Are you a unicorn?', but rather, 'How come you're purple?'"