Business and boring politics

Eva and john sit with Zilk inside the meeting room, they get offered a drink by Zilk a regular Earth Wine.

"next time I will see you in sky-city, Zilk you know it is quit the journey to fly those 1250 light years", john tells to Zilk, "look who is talking, you only discovered FTL and you flied, outside the galaxy like five times in the last three Earth years, I don't know what you seek there, we already gave you the knowledge and andromeda is too far for regular FTL, and you know how are the andromedin Races make the grey look like civilized race", Zilk replies, "I know, but I am testing better warp engines and I also deploy deep inter-galactic probes to explore the universe, also the view of the milky way from outside is something special, now if we talking about the milky way what do you want, we already established a border in the 2031 agreement", john asks Zilk, "I know, but now there is a problem, an alien race discovered radio inside our territory not far from the border with the federation, now Orenian policy is to give those Races ten light years around their systems, so we need you only to keep your ships entering this space, we want them to let explore the galaxy without interventions of other, so we want the federation to keep ships from entering this space from your space, if you agree we will let human anthropologist to explore them with ours", Zilk explains, "for sure, but this stuff we could've discuses in video call, so for what you called me here?", john questions, "the grey, they started to lose it, first they almost made a weapon from a neutron star and now they try to make stars to go supernova, I want to establish a joined Orenia-Earth command to keep an eye on the grey actions, or worse they could piss off the Lomonian, and all Orion arm Races will suffer from those consequences", Zilk replies.

"first, I think it is a great idea, I also want to suggest to exchange ambassadors with Orenia to make our relationship stronger, about the Lomonian I don't think they will try to attack us after they saw what the federation did to that grey supernova base", john responds to Zilk's idea,

"your race was only in the start of his industrial revolution when this happened, a race named the Bilq pissed off the Lomonian, they attacked one of their ships by mistake, what happened next was terrifying, every race with FTL technology in the 500 light years around their Bilq home planet was destroyed, they didn't leave any survivors", Zilk tells them putting Eva in shock "why to do such a thing?", she asks, "because they think they above us all, they are the oldest race in the galaxy and they think because of it, that every other race is less and they don't even try to contact others, there is a rumor that they have a zoo of sentient Races from all across the galaxy in their capital planet, so we need strong alliance if we don't want to finish like the Bilq", Zilk anserws,

"I understand, I will guide my subordinates to start built the foundations for this command and I will choose an ambassador for Orenia, I have couple of names, now let's for once talk about the good things, I managed to create a stable 12 light years per hour warp drive", john says, " and we are planning a probe that will go inside a blackhole", Zilk responds,

Eva looks at john and Zilk talk "those are talking like two kids, about their toys, I see why Orenia is ally of earth here", she thinks.

Eva decides to join the talk "can you tell me about Orenia, is it city wide planet?", she asks Zilk, "yes, we discovered FTL pretty late in our evolution so until we managed to expand, we used any available space in our home solar system, that why most planets I our system are colonized", Zilk explains,

"and when you discovered FTL?", Eva adds another question, "700 earth years ago, but only in the last 100 we managed to go faster than a light year in hour", Zilk replies, "that because you invented quantum computers only 100 years ago", john adds.

They continue to talk up until Zilk needs to go for a council meeting they say their goodbyes and return to 'The Alpha', "that was interesting", Eva says to john as they enter the ship, "I know you would like to meet with Zilk, tomorrow also be intriguing, tomorrow we will meet with the rest of the Orenian council and also they are doing an Event for us, trust me it something you need to see", john says and hugs Eva as they walk.