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held the throttle ready as the short and wide craft lumbered past, heading towards the northern pole of Alvin.
    With the threat reduced I pulled the Driller back up to 200 meters and sent it in the direction of the nearest structure. The jellyfish-like creatures came in and out of view as the Driller moved silently along. None seemed to have any significant intelligence. Then, at 30 kilometers from the structure we were confronted by what we considered to be our first sentient alien being.
    It was one of the squid-like creatures that we had observed swimming within the confines of the structure. It was bright green in color with small dark spots. The one item that had everyone stunned was the glass bubble like helmet that covered all but its six tentacle legs. The creature stopped and stared at the bubbling black holes of the Driller for several seconds before turning and jetting the water with a black ink as it swam away.
    On my holo-screen I pushed the throttle of the Driller forward and matched the creatures speed at nearly 30 knots. When the Driller reached a half kilometer distance from the structure I stopped it dead in the water and turned the BHD off and the active skin on full.
    The Driller was invisible to detection as we looked on at the structure before us. We drifted forward with the ocean currents and soon found ourselves within ten meters of the gigantic alien structure. It was a smooth dark gray metal going up to the surface with a vertical box like column every hundred meters.
    I panned downward with the sensor and took note of a light coming up from below. I again turned on the BHD and gave it a quick burst sending the Driller down towards the light. For only a moment we got a glimpse of writings on the walls just above the lighted area.
    It was our first such find and the chatter at command over the QE comm was that it might help our scientists to finally break their language codes. Two of the alien beings riding on what looked to be an underwater craft of sorts then approached the Driller.
    In seconds the water in front of the Driller's sensor filled with bubbles and an intense temperature spike was soon followed by our lone sensor going dark. The Driller had been destroyed.
    With the new threat of an alien attack I pushed hard on the throttle taking us quickly back to the open safety of space. We detected multiple craft leaving the giant structures that headed out in all directions. I again set a course for a slow orbit around the planet to continue with my original orders.
    Our scientists now had mountains of data to peruse and analyze. Videos of our encounter with the aliens would be played time and time again in an attempt to glean every bit of information available from them. As we rounded the planet the sensors picked up another alien ship... this time in orbit on the far side of Gamma. Alarms quickly sounded as two alien fighters departed the ship and headed in our direction.
    The BHD was turned off and the active skin fully enabled which should have given us invisibility to the fighters. I again held my hand close to the throttle as the fighters approached while Shepard readied four Drillers for launch. I let out a sigh of relief when the fighters turned and headed towards the area where we had done our surveillance.
    The immense alien ship was saucer like in shape just as the mega-ship approaching Earth with the main alien fleet. Two more fighters soon emerged from an opening in the side and went into slow patrol around the ship.
    Shepard logged that the alien craft had its gravity wave active and had it aimed in a wide pattern at the small moon. She ran a few calculations and came back with a startling discovery. The aliens were pushing the moon towards Alvin. I marveled at the fact that a single ship was able to move such a large mass.
    I fired off a micro-burst of the BHDs to bring us to a full stop. We watched and gathered information for nearly ten Earth hours before Command came back with a