![]() Sure, it's a random question, but I feel it's a rather interesting one that now bugs me, not knowing the answer. Or, perhaps, the alien ship sent our ship a signal, which immediately got forwarded to our homeworld? Or, maybe, coincidentally at the same time, they received a signal from the alien's homeworld that has been on loop for thousands of years? So, what now? Do we close the channel and end it back to Homeworld Communications for translating, or did they already receive a long-ranged signal? The channel is opened, but the language is unrecognizable. They are sending us a signal, trying to open a communications channel. As I approach and see the system's star "raising" from the eastern horizon, a small ship of unknown origin and design can be seen, in a very low orbit. While out exploring the galaxy, I drop out of FTL on the edge of an uncharted system and approach the nearest planet a large, dense, gas giant. ![]() Here is how I imagine it, as if I were the captain of the science ship: They enter a system and encounter an alien science ship. One of your science ships is out exploring the stars. This brings up the question: what exactly is going on during this project? The normal encounter is as so: In Stellaris, it takes all of a few months to translate alien languages, compared to Star Trek's few seconds and reality's few centuries. If it is taking us this long to translate languages from our species, imagine the time to translate one from a whole different species! Not to mention, we have been spending centuries, if not longer, translating ancient human languages. This form of translation takes years, decades, or even centuries. Any signals we have received from space have been the target of translation for years, hoping that it may be some alien language. In reality, we have some probes flying about in space, constantly broadcasting looped messages in multiple Earth languages, in the hopes that some alien species will eventually find, and translate it. This works almost instantly, from hearing just a few words or sentences. Once translated, the device seems to alter sound waves so that when someone speaks in their own language, the other hears the translation. Now, I don't know much about this series, or it's lore, but from what little I have seen (the Enterprise series), this device seems to be able to listen to an alien language, usually a few, angry, words at first Contact, and can translate it. To go from an example, in the Star Trek franchise, they have a tool called a "translator", which everyone caries around with them. When you first run into a new species, and you gain a Special Project to "Translate their language", how exactly does this work? I have come up with a rather strange question, but now it bugs me.
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