Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-5135903-20130919182126/@comment-5135903-20131012190808

 Wanraknasdan 

(The CIC do not have any sort of 'universal translator', and have to use computers loaded with the correct languages to communicate easily between different languages. The CIC encompasses the whole of the known civilized Andromeda galaxy for its member civilizations, only having any detailed knowledge of civilizations and cultures within its region of the Deras grid. This means that they will have little or no knowledge of languages from outside Deras.)

A creature sitting close to you, which is about a metre high, made up of a round grey carapace with two exoskeletal legs, no arms and no head (though it has to large eyes on the front of the body in between two long, fat feelers), makes a noise and pushes you with one of its legs, before returning to its game, which seems to involve alternately drawing lines on the ground in randomly connected loops.

 Darwol 

After you move onto the machine, it starts off down the tunnel, apparently without any physical command from any of the others. Xanez looks to Gaelog, who doesn't say anything.

"The tunnel dwellers just don't care. The tunnels are the place where they go about their business, live and deal for a bit, then usually catch a supply craft stopping at the gas giant and move on. Turns out there's this unwritten courtesy between commanders and the tunnels about that. We were tipped of on that just a bit too late. It really isn't a permanent sort of place, it's a very dynamic society. I only know of one individual who actually lives in the tunnels permanently.

Few tunnel dwellers have invested themselves in the tunnels or have anything of value here to leave behind. They're used to change and, I guess naively, just expect life to go on here as it does; for the short time they stay as individuals, that is."