It was an odd day for Mike. He could have been at Gabrielle's house looking for a chillout experience on his new DJ set. He could have been to Aunt Roxanna's house having the "New continent day dinner", which was the deal of the town, as every known face of Tian would have been there.
He could have done a lot of things with the time he had. But it was his curiosity, his search for serendipity that he was out on his rover, a D5243 Inter Galactic Space Machine. It was a standard model of the Xian World and had Luna 7 speed that is 7 times the speed of light. The constellation T34552 was his last location when he went for a nap.
As he woke up, he saw signals coming from his radar. He had never received signals on his radar. Never outside the xiana constellation. He laid awake, suddenly trying to grab the gravity of the matter. His palms became sweaty and he felt sudden uneasiness, a caution that he should just turn around and set sail for a different direction. But eventually after moments of silence and his curiosity got the better of him. He veneered his binoculars towards the sight of the location and saw a capsule in space. That capsule was trying to connect with Mark. Mark knew that this was off territory and no Xianian has ever encamped this far. He nevertheless accepted the incoming message. They were images, images of different foods he assumed in their natural state. He knew only a few of those vegetable and fruits. As Xiana community had access to a uniquely different sets of foods and hundred of thousand of years of evolution and their technological innovation had completely changed the food system of Xiana community. They had bananas, with 1 banana giving the energy and fiber of 12 bananas, bananas that do not decay for weeks. Mike loved his bananas. He was fond of the food, not just vegetables but the meat that his community grew on plants. Coming back, Mike wanted to do something great with the information he was receiving. He was receiving communications even in words now, short sentences. Then he received an audio file, it was a song of some kind.
He only understood the images, not the audio nor the text. He finally gave in and called on bickle. Bickle was no ordinary AI, humans who are only implementing Web 3 now cannot comprehend the power of Bickle the XIanian AI. Bickle knew more about the Universe than the most learned personnages of Xiana.
Bickle asked Mike, do you understand this song cause I don't. And then started analyzing the audio and the text and the images they were receiving from the capsule. Mike thought why not send something of his own. He took a selfie from his watch extension and sent it to the capsule. He received a group selfie of everyone in some kind of uniform. They looked ditto like Xianians. Now Mike's excitement was above the hill. He gathered the periphery of tiana whiskey and made a drink to himself, he just couldn't contain his excitement. He shouted to Gabrielle, Gabrielle was not present anywhere in the millionth of miles around, but Xianians had the ability to Telepathically communicate with anyone anywhere regardless of the distance. A perfect example of Quantum Entanglement, through natural evolution xianians and especially the people of Tian had evolved into one large group of people who can call each other any time that they want to even during sleep. He burted out in excitement all the nitty gritty details of his trip to Gabrielle and transmitted the pictures of the capsule and the information he had received to Xiana. Gabrielle though seemed occupied in some kind of state function and requested he be given time to revert.
In the thick of things. Mike started writing detailed instructions to bickle's AI and he started sending more of audio files to the capsule in the hope that he will be receiving more files from the capsule. He wanted bickle to start demystifying the capsules language and somehow translate it into his own timri language. It was not an easy process, he was not a pro at X language, the code of bickle but he was no amateur either. He started moving his rover towards the capsule, which he saw was fixed and rotating. After 5 hours of deliberation and bickle and xiananet's massive compilation of translation softwares. The first word that was translated was girl. Mike was no stranger to women, it is not like in Xiana they do not have genders and marriages. The pair of production is common between our world and their world I assume, but who the bickle translated into a girl had a picture and the girl looked kind of too bossy and old for Mike's taste. But he was happy they were getting somewhere.
After much deliberation. Mike gathered enough wind to make a physical contact with the aliens. He gathered his space suit and took a quick dip into it. The space suits of XIanian community was always kept inverted. Once a person bends down and dips into it, the suit gets hold of the subject and with a summersault, the person is ready. He pointed out his controller to the capsule and there he was, for humans it would have taken 30 minutes of travel, for xiana it was so close that the travel was instant. He saw red lights flashing all over the capsule and the people he saw from windows, look just like his own people, but their space suits were funny. People started scrambling as if they were ready for impact. He jammed his rover and got out of the threshold.
He confidently strode towards the capsule's door knocked it a few times and it was opened. And here we have the first known interaction of xianian with any other intelligent being in the cosmos. He was elated, he did not know the perspective of the people he was about to encounter. Mike had with him the AI watch and speakers attached and he was hoping he would be able to translate instant communication with his new found friends. He entered the capsule and took off his helmet. He wanted to show the public that he looked just like them. He signaled his watch to translate his greetings. The watch only said "hi". He could see the new subjects jumping like crazy animals. Maybe the word "hi" was their password to excitement. He did not know. He then wished to have a drink of some kind with them, he always socialized better after having a few drinks. He made the drinking sign but no 1 understood. He then looked at them with his glasses on, the glasses could detect alchohol or substance presence in the subjects blood. He found none, but it was for sure that these people were craving for a drink. He wore the helmet again and asked them to wait. Strode towards his rover and grabbed 2 bottles of Champion, his favorite spirit.
This time that he entered the capsule, the atmosphere was kind of more jubilant, but he also gathered that some people on the capsule are transmitting messages from there. May be about my arrival to their superiors he thought. He asked the girl whose picture he had received to give him all the pictures, audio and video files they have or give his AI wifi, access to their server. He wanted to understand their language better and at full proficiency and he knew Xianian AI would serve the purpose wonderfully. The capsule people delightfully accepted his request to offer access to their servers through his watch's wifi signals. And then he opened the Champion spirit, the people seemed shocked and excited and something told Mike that they do not drink alchohol on this capsule for whatever reasons, may be discipline. But the man in the middle took a sip, then everyone did. 2 Bottles were finished in half an hour with nervous laughter and merriment all around. And then he got the beep from the AI, it was able to decipher the language they were speaking, it was called English and the capsule they were in was called ISS, some kind of collaboration between different countries to keep their presence in the space.
The decipherment of such a complex language like English of the Earth beings, was a revelation to Mike. He could talk to his new friends at length now. He told them everything about himself with instant translation. There were 4 people on the ISS at the moment, 1 was outside for repair. Mike was excited beyond bound, he had found an intelligent community of people outside Xiana. He had had so many dreams related to this kind of experience. The excitement was mutual and all the members of ISS were elated. It was Mark, Cynthia and Apollo who were present at the ISS at that moment, Robert was out for repair. The spirit started kicking in and they were laughing frivolously, Mike was not a funny guy, but he understood the manners of the ISS crew and was jubilant at the mutual discovery. This was milestone moment in both their histories and their national histories. Mike forgot about Xian and thought he would transmit bodycam footage at some later point.