[ WP ] The humans of earth have ventured to another star system to find a planet inhabited by ... humans .

Alright, first post here we go. 
 
 `` Are you as excited as I am?'' asked Buzz. 
 
 `` No, I'm not at all excited to be the first human to make contact with extraterrestrial life,'' said Alex sarcastically. 
 
 As the Pocahontas II descended into the atmosphere Alex thought over the events that led to this encounter. Thirty years ago a signal was received from a star system about ten parsecs away from the Interworld Border. The signal was a simple one, just a repeating counter going from 0 to 255 every 37 minutes. A mission was created to respond to this message in kind while preparing to send a manned mission to the system. Despite the political and economical hurdles a small fleet of three ships were launched. Dubbed Pocahontas the mission would attempt transmission with the planet. All attempts had failed, despite receiving and transmitting what was obviously data, all interpretations failed. After a solid year of orbiting the star at about 60 AU it was decided that the fleet would move into orbit the planet and land. Pocahontas II was chosen to land, and Alex Landly was elected to be in the first landing party as the lead xenolinguist of the team. 
 
 `` Alright Alex, we've broken through the cloud layer... wonder how anyone can survive down here with the constant cloud cover,'' said Buzz, `` We're getting our first visuals of the planet now. We're over a decent sized ocean not to far away from a coast. Team C has located a city on the coast and we're headed just about for them.'' 
 
 `` This slow buildup is giving me the jitters, about how long until we can see an alien?'' asked Alex. 
 
 `` About five minutes until we can identify any large structures, and not much more after that until we can identify human-sized creatures.'' The time passed in silence until Buzz broke the silence, `` We have images of structures, and Team A says we really need to look at this one... dear god.'' 
 
 `` What is it!'' 
 
 `` It's... it's... Just come over here and look at it!'' 
 
 Alex went over to Buzz's station and nearly had a heart attack when he saw the image, `` That ca n't be. Maybe Team A is pranking us.'' 
 
 `` No, Jill sent it, you know how much of a hardass she is. That's the Statue of Liberty no mistaking it... We're getting images of the creatures now...'' 
 
 Alex shook his head in disbelief, `` They're... 
 
 
 
... humans.''
