Chapter 247: First Steps
Galactic Alliance Office.
Fan Ren, having disembarked from the spaceship, led a group of Foreign Affairs Department office personnel and stood in place for a long time.
As the first in human history to land on an alien civilization’s space building, they were now novelly struck by the surrounding buildings’ styles, which were vastly different from humanity’s.
But even more so, it was their curious observation of the various types of spaceships of all kinds docked at the docking ports inside the dock.
Carbon-based civilizations, limited by their diverse living environments, not only have major differences in appearance but also distinct characteristics in lifestyle habits.
This also leads to each civilization’s buildings and spaceships having their own unique stylistic features.
Humanity’s aesthetics tend more toward streamlined hull appearances, but here, many types of spaceships do not even consider such aerodynamic layouts that only improve aerodynamics within the atmosphere.
Moreover, Fan Ren also discovered that here, basically except for the Peace Messenger and the Young Dragon, the other 99% of spaceships no longer use nuclear fusion engines.
Instead, they use afterburner technology, which is only mastered by the Five Great Super Civilizations.
He could even guess that the main power supply systems inside these spaceships also used the kind found in the Conqueror, which uses liquid metallic hydrogen as fuel.
His gaze fixed on several large landing ports in the distance, where several spaceships with the Galactic Alliance emblem printed on their hulls were docked.
Those spaceships’ hulls faintly emitted a dark green glow.
Obviously, the hull materials of these spaceships were, without surprise, super-silver alloy processed with strong interaction force processing technology.
This should be the same material as the Conqueror’s.
He withdrew his gaze, putting a courteous smile on his face.
Ahead, an alien in a white work uniform, with a head wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, walked toward them.
“Hello, this is the Galactic Alliance Office. Are you a new emerging civilization?”
The other’s expression clearly showed puzzled looks at the crowd of humans.
Fan Ren nodded.
Obviously, the Sirius Civilization Navy’s information had not synchronized with the Galactic Alliance’s work department here.
Thinking this in his mind, he spoke: “Hello, yes, just as you think, we learned of the Galactic Alliance’s existence through exchanges with other civilizations, and we have come this time for civilization registration.”
His words were converted by the built-in translation equipment into the Galactic Alliance’s common language and transmitted; the other, upon hearing, curiously glanced at the crowd.
As the end of the arm, the area within 40 light years behind here had basically mapped most of the star systems.
Also because of this, no new emerging civilizations had been discovered in that star domain for a long time.
Actively discovering emerging civilizations and inviting them to join the Galactic Alliance was itself one of the work contents of their department.
However, this work now seemed to have an omission.
This staff member paused for a moment, then reacted: “Alright, please follow me.”
He did not treat the work omission as a big deal.
After all, in that region of space, there were still unmapped star systems.
Although as one of the Five Great Super Civilizations, they possessed top-tier technology, it was impossible to completely map all star systems in the Milky Way Galaxy.
If they truly had that level, there would be no need for them to create an organization like the Galactic Alliance.
Seeing the other’s attitude unchanged, and after saying this, turning toward the passage, Fan Ren and the group hurriedly followed.
“As an emerging civilization making first contact with the Galactic Alliance, I know you have many questions, but please do not worry.
After completing civilization registration and entering your civilization’s information such as language, biological characteristics, etc., into the system, we will dispatch a dedicated person to answer all questions not within the secrecy scope.”
The other’s flat voice came from ahead.
Hearing this, Fan Ren turned his head and exchanged a glance with the solemn-faced Xu Hongwei; the two lightly nodded, said nothing, and silently followed behind.
Soon, the group entered a gigantic hall spanning tens of thousands of square meters via the passage.
Here, the group’s footsteps instinctively paused briefly.
In the hall, numerous carbon-based intelligent lifeforms of various shapes were hurrying through.
At the front of the hall, in a row of passages, there were digital displays above.
Without surprise, that was the service window.
Xu Hongwei’s gaze lingered around the hall, his mind frantically recording the information here.
Without surprise, this would henceforth be one of the Foreign Affairs Department’s main work scopes.
“Keep up; as an emerging civilization, you don’t need to queue. Just follow me to the reception room.”
The leading staff member’s flat tone came; the group hurriedly curbed their curiosity and followed again.
Unlike them, the numerous intelligent lifeforms in the hall showed no curiosity toward this newly appeared civilization, all busy with their own affairs, some pensive, some frowning.
Quickly, the group followed the staff member’s steps into a passage with no queue.
Fan Ren instinctively turned to glance at the other passages in the hall, where long lines were queued.
This phenomenon had no longer occurred when A’dai was assisting humanity.
Only after A’dai withdrew from all human civilization systems did this queuing phenomenon return to human life.
Obviously, in the Galactic Alliance, just like humanity, affairs were not handled relying on electronic intelligence but still used manual methods.
It had to be said, the efficiency was too low.
While he was pondering, the group entered a room resembling a reception room.
“Please sit! A staff member will soon handle your civilization’s registration.”
The other pointed to the chairs in the room and then left.
Fan Ren glanced around the room; the chairs here surprisingly used adaptive size control mechanisms.
Obviously, this was built considering the diversity of carbon-based organisms, which have obvious differences in body size.
For example, the Fox Civilization’s body size was more than half shorter than humanity’s.
This was a point worth noting.
Xu Hongwei recorded this detail in his mind, then led the group to sit down.
From now on, he was the main person in charge of this mission.
The office personnel here did not keep them waiting long; soon, the inner door was pushed open, and a staff member identical in appearance to the previous one walked in.
Obviously, they were from the same civilization.
Xu Hongwei hurriedly stood up, a smile instantly appearing on his face.
