Andrew is in trouble and I think the time has come to act decisively. Here is the message I propose.
Parker and Hardon:
We have made contact with your probes. Your communications equipment was destroyed on impact. Direct communication with you is and will be impossible. The only way you can communicate with them is through us. If you want us to make contact with them for you, you must send access and command codes right away. If they damage or threaten any of us here, there may be no choice but to destroy them.
I know it sounds like a ransom demand, but really it's just mutual back-scratching. If we can get the EU-probes to where they are not- aggressive with those weapons, we can certainly begin to send P&H some of the data and info they're craving. Perhaps we can even use their weapons systems to our advantage at some point (like an amphibian encunter.)
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