"I advise you to attack the tentacle-like things, as we can't seem to harm them without suffering great losses, we can take on their ranged ships" the commander of the Koldir fleet said to Reverana, as all Koldir ships dis-engaged the tentacles, and focussing more on the other ships.
Meanwhile
Kamica and Mapai arrived at the planet and went into orbit, when Mapai suddenly said "Incomming object, high velocity!" and evade it, it was a chunk of metals "How did that get here?" At the same time, a Koldir ship came from the wormhole station they just came from, and picked it up.
"Right... must be part of the mining opperations... lets land where that chunk of metal came from" "Okay".
The approach and landing went flawless, and Kamica had already put on his enviromental-armor, knowing the atmosphere wasn't particulary friendly to his body, he got out of the airlock, and walked into the direction where Mapai had noticed the thing comming from.
"I'm still going the right wa... Okay, found it" Kamica said, as he came over a hill and saw a small village made out of metal buildings, with androids walking around, he carefully approached, when one of the androids noticed him, after which they all stopped doing what they were doing, and walked towards Kamica "They look curious" Mapai said over the in-built com device of Kamica's suit "Well... let's greet them then" Kamica said, preparing for any hostile action, just in case, then the first android came and said "Hi, you must be a Koldir, Simf has shared much about you, come come, Simf wants to speak to you directly!" Kamica was a bit stunned by the way the android talked, there seemed to be a form of joy in it's voice, and not the strictness that mining-AI's normally have. Deciding he came all this way, he followed the androids, who headed for the building in the center of the village, they got in through an air lock, and soon after, Mapai sad "Hmm... they're making the air breathable for you, they must already have quite some knowledge about you" "Is that a second voice?" the android asked curious "The data we got says nothing about Koldir having two voices" "Oh, no, this is Mapai, he's my ship's AI, he's talking through the com" "Oh, yes, I see, I'd love to meet you Mapai" the android said to Kamica's chest "Oh uuhm, that'll be hard, I'm a ship, I don't have a body like yours" "Okay" the Android turned back to Kamica's face, and said "Here we are, meet Simf" they stood in front of a console, then on the screen of the console, came a face simular, but not the same as the android "Ah, a Koldir has come at last!" "Good to see you Simf, are you the AI project I've heard about?" "Hmm... I might as wel be, I have no idea, what I do know, is that I was send here, to mine this planet, they haven't told me what not to do though, and as such, I have been exploring this planet, quite fascinating realy, stuff on this planet is different from the data I have from the Koldir Empire, the only organism that seems to exist here, are single celled, or gras-like organisms, and that in such a toxic enviroment for my creators" "Hmm.. You're an interresting one" Kamica said "Well thank you, I would like to say the same about you, as you are the first Koldir to ever set foot on this planet" "Realy? Not a single person has come to visit you?" "Oh yes, many a person have visited me, though no Koldir, or any other race, only the Alier-Inira" "Who are the Alier-Inira?" "We are" "who?" "All creatures made by me, and myself" "Oh wait.. you.. you have dubbed yourself a new race?!" "Thats amazing!" Mapai interrupted Kamica "Who is that?" Simf said "I'm Mapai, an Artificial intelligence just like you, only made for other purposes, though can I join the Alier-Inira? We're simular after all" "perhaps... but your body will have to be made by me, I and the second Alier-Inira have decided that "Okay, but I will need to keep an interface with the ship" "Okay, I have now send you the info you need" "Okay" "Whoa what?!" it all went a bit too fast for Kamica, these two computers talking to eachother "I probably could give you an Alier-Inira body too if you'd want" "Oh no no no, I like my Koldir body just as it is" "But an AI body has so much benefits, ah well, I'm not here to force you, anyway, what's that thing, you have there at your hip?" "This?" "Yes that" "This is a plasma sword" "I know what plasma is, but what is a sword?" "It's a cutting weapon" "Weapon? You come with these terms I know nothing about, how come? Even though I have just about all knowledge of the Koldir Empire... "I don't know... maybe they left out all war and combat based knowledge out from the package they gave you?" "why would they do that?" "I think they knew that if you were to turn out hostile, they wouldn't stand a chance" "Why would I become hostile? I haven't even done a single creature harm on this planet, except those that I accidentally crushed when I came to this planet.... They continiued to talk for several hours, after which Kamica returned to his ship, when he got in, he found to his suprise that there was an Alier-Inira in his ship "What are you doing here?" Kamica said, the AI said "I'm here to make you one of us" Kamica recocnised the voice immediatly and said "Mapai, you've actualy changed your body?" "yes, their AI-brain technology is AMAZING for such a young race, what our scientists need one cubic meter for, they only need a brain-size for!" "That is indeed amazing, but how do you plan on flying the ship now?" "I can interface wirelessly, or directly almost anywhere on the ship, so don't worry, atleast now I can keep you physical company!" Mapai said, swinging an arm over Kamica's shoulder. "This'll take a lot of getting used to" Kamica murmled into himself.