Lord of the Sixteen clans arrives on earth
Once the Clan Lord arrived on Terra he immediately went to talk to Teolura. The Telepath's guild had finally decided they wanted to see if more humans might be telepathic. Based on what they knew humans didn't believe in psychic powers for the most part. He had reviewed what they knew of the terran beliefs and an entire subculture had grown around the whole ESP thing. It was a mishmash of stuff he wasn't sure how to define. Frankly so much of the information was based on some higher power, religious believe, or even something supernatural he wasn't holding his breath.
Chances were good they might find one out of a thousand who might have some usable talent. Even with that number he wasn't holding his breath. It could be even higher, one in a hundred thousand who applied to be tested. It would take a great deal of effort to get even a few humans who might have trainable powers. He hoped that in the long run it would benefit both of their worlds.
When he walked into the Ambassador's waiting room her assistant gave him a wide smile, "Welcome Clan Lord Aldatan. Please have a seat and the Ambassador will be with you momentarily. Something came up which she had to deal with. Would you like some c'shar or coffee? We have it at the right strength to avoid some of the side effects."
He scratched his chin before smiling slightly, "I understand the terran Ambassador has come up with a mix of c'shar and coffee. If you have that I would like to try it. Light on the sweetener and whitener." It wasn't much later when he was sampling the drink and it wasn't bad at all.
Shortly after he had the drink Teo's door opened and Ike walked out. He gave the male a good look before smiling, "Greetings Clan Lord. Sorry to have made you wait." When the Clan Lord held his hand out Ike lightly touched his fingers, "Billy told me how to greet telepaths and so has Teo. Have a good day Sir." He left the office and headed to his. Since the ship was larger than the previous Barque he now had an office there. It was a room which had been quickly converted for his use and nothing special.
The Clan Lord stood when the human came out and he was forced to flick an ear at the impressive facial hair the man had. The damn beard seemed to bristle and twitch. It didn't help the darn thing was a good foot long and was thick and a curly black, "Greetings to you as well Admiral. Have a good day."
As Ike was leaving the Clan Lord was shown into Teo's office, "Good morning Ambassador." He held his hand out as he greeted her.
Teo stood and brushed her fingers against his, "Good morning to you as well Clan Lord. Please have a seat and I have reviewed the briefing papers sent to me. Not sure how we are going to do this but I do have a few ideas. I can have several of the telepath mentors from the Fijishi brought down and start doing some testing. As far as getting people here that is a different issue and not much I can do about it."
He settled down in a chair across from her desk, "Being that they aren't a unified world does make it harder. I would consider passing the message to the three powers and request they send a dozen or maybe two dozen people each. Test them, find some that might be trainable, and go from there. The telepath's guild want twenty to test and work with. Obviously, they would be allowed to bring their families with."
She flicked her ears as she stared at the far wall as she was thinking. What he suggested wasn't a bad idea but she could see the various polities sending spies to be tested. It would be expected but not wanted. They could weed most of those out but it wasn't guaranteed since they didn't do invasive scanning, "That is a workable way of doing it. My only concern would be all the polities would send spies to be tested. That does concern me but it will probably happen no matter what we do. With the ship load of Embassy staff for Yilly there are going to be some. Much of our tech they can't use or reproduce due to the differences in tech level. What they could reproduce could toss the balance of the powers into question."
He had to shrug, "It is expected and any communications would be heavily screened. It has been requested and approved by the government. It is going to happen and we can only do our best. Compose a message, pass it over to the Admiral and let him handle it. I am also here to help with the treaties and getting them finalized. Yilly has been of great value with some of his reports and thoughts. If you need me I will be aboard my ship." He stood and left her office.
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Teo talks to Amanda about getting the repair
Teo was relaxing in her quarters for the moment. Shortly after Vangie had left with the Sandi many of the other ships had left as well. Many of the Sholan repair ships had remained though. The Fijishi needed some work done on several the parasite crafts after the battle. The others had fought with an almost rabid intensity. There wasn't a trace of give in them during the fight or boarding. They were also helping with repairs to the habitats and Terran ships which had been damaged.
With the boarding, they had managed to capture a few remaining crew. Most had died trying to get to the Sholan's who had captured them. It was almost like they had some deep psychosis when it came to them. They would do anything to try and take one of the Sholan's with them. There had been a few deaths before they had given up. When the Human's had entered the rooms, with the others heavily chained, they didn't react nearly as much.
When they realized that, they had turned the remaining two over to the humans to deal with. The bodies of the dead others ended up on the Fijishi since their medical was far in advance of Earths. A number of medical specialist from earth had come up and they were working on dissecting the reptiles. The preliminary results were confusing yet fascinating. It seemed the others were some sort of reptile and were chemical factories.
