"After an unsettled period, these nations convened to establish an impartial, international third party organization which could regulate trade and interaction and safely deal with any of the immensely dangerous ancient artifacts which were - and are - still occaisionally encountered. Its name would translate to your language as 'Time and Space Administration Bureau,' and it is the institution which I represent.
"Bureau activity is organized into various patrol sectors, starting with the Headquarters Branch in Sector One, to which ships, personel, and other assets are then assigned. As a matter of policy, worlds lacking native interdimensional - interstellar," she corrected herself, "travel are not integrated into the trade network the Bureau is responsible for supervising until assets sufficient to protect the increased traffic that would result can be moved into place.
"Since Earth is both extremely distant from the Bureau's usual centers of power and populous enough to be... difficult... to protect, a policy of official non-contact was established as our policy for the forseeable future.
"At the same time, Earth's central location in this sector and an usually high rate of Lost Logia - sorry, ancient artifact - incidents made it the logical choice for a regional base. The conflicting neccessities of policy made a clandestine base the best solution, and unrelated factors suggested Japan as the optimal site, so the decision was made to open negotiations towards that goal.
"After several months of work with the highest levels of the governments of Japan and her allies, an agreement was reached - and strictly classified - allowing Bureau personel to work in the territory of the signatory nations unmolested, in return for our agreement to provide whatever resources proved neccessary to defend the Earth against external threats." She paused after that line, and took a deep breath before continuing. "The party or parties responsible for this morning's attacks in Uminari and other cities across the world were quite definitely non-Terran, but their identity and origin cannot be identified out of information available in this sector. A message has been sent to Headquarters requesting more information, as well as advising them of the neccessity of additional resources to meet our responsibilities, but no response will be forthcoming before tomorrow at the earliest.
"In the meantime, our analyses of the intruders' actions and abilities lead us to conclude that their attacks were not directed at causing either panic or loss of life, but rather as preparation for some more decisive move. Until more information becomes available, all that we can really tell the people of Earth is to remain calm, go about your normal lives, and help your own governments carry out those preparations they find needful."
She smiled, and braced herself. "Questions?"
I am very annoyed at Doremi. How the fuck am I supposed to see your fansubs if your trackers won't let me download the motherfucking torrent?!
...*sigh*
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
"Bureau activity is organized into various patrol sectors, starting with the Headquarters Branch in Sector One, to which ships, personel, and other assets are then assigned. As a matter of policy, worlds lacking native interdimensional - interstellar," she corrected herself, "travel are not integrated into the trade network the Bureau is responsible for supervising until assets sufficient to protect the increased traffic that would result can be moved into place.
"Since Earth is both extremely distant from the Bureau's usual centers of power and populous enough to be... difficult... to protect, a policy of official non-contact was established as our policy for the forseeable future.
"At the same time, Earth's central location in this sector and an usually high rate of Lost Logia - sorry, ancient artifact - incidents made it the logical choice for a regional base. The conflicting neccessities of policy made a clandestine base the best solution, and unrelated factors suggested Japan as the optimal site, so the decision was made to open negotiations towards that goal.
"After several months of work with the highest levels of the governments of Japan and her allies, an agreement was reached - and strictly classified - allowing Bureau personel to work in the territory of the signatory nations unmolested, in return for our agreement to provide whatever resources proved neccessary to defend the Earth against external threats." She paused after that line, and took a deep breath before continuing. "The party or parties responsible for this morning's attacks in Uminari and other cities across the world were quite definitely non-Terran, but their identity and origin cannot be identified out of information available in this sector. A message has been sent to Headquarters requesting more information, as well as advising them of the neccessity of additional resources to meet our responsibilities, but no response will be forthcoming before tomorrow at the earliest.
"In the meantime, our analyses of the intruders' actions and abilities lead us to conclude that their attacks were not directed at causing either panic or loss of life, but rather as preparation for some more decisive move. Until more information becomes available, all that we can really tell the people of Earth is to remain calm, go about your normal lives, and help your own governments carry out those preparations they find needful."
She smiled, and braced herself. "Questions?"
I am very annoyed at Doremi. How the fuck am I supposed to see your fansubs if your trackers won't let me download the motherfucking torrent?!
...*sigh*
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."