<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/36/Cmdr_HRaal.png)</div><strong>Cmdr. H'Raal</strong><br/><strong>Bridge</strong><br/><strong>RED ALERT BWOOP BWOOP BWOOP</strong><br/><strong>Tag: Captain Galven</strong><br/><hr/><br/>H'Raal had been on the bridge at the time that the fleet arrived in the system.<strong> "Shields up!  Science, give me a scan on the ships in that formation.  Do not energize phasers."</strong>They did not want to be seen running weapons hot, just in case the new arrivals could detect that.  He turned as he heard the turbolift doors open, seeing Captain Galven arriving.<strong>"Captain on the bridge,"</strong>he called out.<strong>"Captain, we've got sixteen ships of previously unknown configurations dropping out of warp and traveling at one-tenth lightspeed towards the planet.  Scans of their vessels indicate <em>laser</em> weaponry." </strong>H'Raal couldn't believe that - lasers hadn't been common weaponry in the known galaxy for at least a few centuries.<strong> "Captain?  I think whether we want it or not, we're getting a First Contact situation on this one."</strong><br/><br/>The available data on the civilization showed that they did have warp technology, albeit primitive.  In that case, the Prime Directive...well, it wasn't as clear-cut as it would have been for a pre-warp civilization.