Yeah... "First Contact"... Bureaucracy, amirite?

Translation: We already have the blasted humans in our midst protecting us and you think we need to be wary of this new species? Great premise and writing.

It was left ambiguous, and I'm sure that was deliberate, but it seemed to me that they were probably discussing first contact with humanity. Which was apparently moot at this point.

It most certainly was deliberate, but see the writing prompt that prompted this burst of writing ;)

Lol I would love a whole series of this

Wait, is the new species supposed to be humans or not?

The joke is that in the time the bureaucracy of the Federation took fighting over whether to initiate First Contact with humans, the humans advanced enough to join the Federation on their own, but since First Contact has not been initiated, it still needs to be done at some point. The character providing exposition and the reader's point-of-view is pointing out the absurdity of the situation to the one holdout.

Oh, I just read it as, "we're worrying about this new species when we already have **humans** who are like this."

I wrote this meaning it to be read one way. Looking at the comments, I realise my little scribble can be read two ways - and work both ways. I'm happy :)

A cynic would ask what back room deals are the Pe'ick profiting from while there has been no First Contact that would have initiated various processes to protect a new member :{

The optimist would like to know what Federation obligations, traditions, and restrictions Humanity is *NOT* subject to since First Contact has not been officially recognized? AND ALSO ... how badly are the Pe'ick getting screwed by us, while still being allowed to think they are the ones doing the screwing?

Cute

So now I'm going to assume that you're going to write the rest of the story? Please please please!

So now I'm going to assume that you're going to write \[ Paul Harvey style pause \] the rest of the story. :-)

Took me a second.

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Lmao fantastic read A few observations for you “First contact… an unanimous decision” technically correct but doesn’t sound right. Make it “a unanimous” “Rose from the dias and started undulating” Sounds like she’s doin “the wave”. But she’s an alien so maybe that’s their thing. If it’s not, you might’ve meant gesticulating. “…threw her tentacles in the air… made her way back to *her* dais” - typo “…as Bloblan *thrust* her tentacles towards…”- also typo, no big deal. Compliment sandwich: Hilarious