344 Enter Valkia

"Commander, we have an incoming vessel, requesting to make contact." One of the communications officers called out to Max nervously.

"What's so strange about that? We get visitors at least every other day for one reason or another." Max replied.

"Not like this. Whatever that thing is, it makes the Moon Base look like a pebble. Seriously, it looks like Terminus, but a thousand times larger." The officer responded in a shaky voice.

Max pulled up the sensor data, and if anything, the communications crew had downplayed the size of their new arrival in the system. It had come to a halt well outside the path of any other planet, or its pure mass would interfere with their orbits. Whoever had designed that thing had not intended for it to remain in a solar system at all.

"What did they introduce themselves as?" Max asked before reaching for the microphone.