Long Time No See

Captain Zed's response was heard throughout the entire Control Tower and it was received with a mixture of bewilderment and shock. They could tell at first glance that the space cruiser approaching Earth Alpha is a mass-produced space cruise that's used by a lot of expeditioners on Main Earth and that's why they didn't see it as a threat.  It could easily be taken down with one Interplanetary Ballistic Missile or an IPBM. So if it made any suspicious movement, one click and it would explode right then and there.

But then, the pilot followed through with all the etiquette when it comes to space flight, even going as far as to decelerate and orbit at a certain distance from the planet to indicate that they didn't mean any harm.