Confed Stardate 2301:0416 Location: Aureus Prime Last time I volunteer for anything, fell for the oldest trick in the book. Lets draw straws, shortest one loses, um does the first contact misson. Now I am in a light fighter sitting near a bunch of possible hostile ships. The eggheads at Command on Capella think they are friendly because the aliens did not destroy our deep space array but I wonder if they wanted us to take a good look at them. At least the light fighters are weak and unshielded so I can take out a few before they gang up on me! They are more agile than my ship, so if they stick on my six, its going to be hard to shake them off. Confed First contact procedures say I have to fly to a safe distance, lower shields and turn off the guns. Show a totally unthreatening profile. Yeah whatever. Crap they are getting closer. Hope I am out of the capitol ship's firing distance or there will not be enough for a burial in space.