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Part 6: Extrauniversal Diplomacy

Forester was internally jumping for joy, knowing he'd be able to make sure another country would both know the power of the New World Union and also make friendly contact. Forester then proceeded to speak. "Is there anything that your tradition requests from the other country?" Vallerie responded. "Aside from basic diplomatic protections such as a security detail, the tradition specifies nothing else, though often a guided tour is put in place."

Forester nodded, pulling out an MPARC/T. He started transmitting commands into it, and Vallerie deduced that the device that Forester was interacting with had to have been a communications device. Forester shortly after finished using the MPARC/T, and turned to Vallerie. "When can I visit your capital?" Forester smiled. "How about now?"

Her eyes briefly opened in surprise, before they returned to their calm form present not that long ago. "Really?" She asked. "You do not require any preparation time?" Forester was nodding. "To tell the truth here, we're always prepared for situations like this." Vallerie then posed her own question to Forester. "May I have some time to prepare myself?" Forester nodded at this, speaking. "Of course." He got up, turning towards the exit. "I'll see you at the ground floor?"

"Yes, of course." She nodded, then also heading to the exit and taking an elevator down to a different floor, with Forester in the adjacent elevator headed downstairs with his armed escort, then heading out to wait near the front desk. Forester knew that Vallerie would take at least fifteen minutes to get everything sorted, so he decided to hang around for a little while.

Remembering that painting he saw with what looked like a sci-fi Type 99 MBT, he rotated 90 degrees to his left and asked the clerk lady. "Ma'am, do you know what that painting is about?" He was pointing at the Behemoth of Rosti painting. The clerk responded to his question very soon after. "The painting depicts a scene from very long ago, maybe a thousand years ago.--"

The lady took a second to recall, then speaking again. "The Kingdom of Morostia was once a state all split apart, and there were many wars to unify it, many of which failed. Then came visitors from the stars, who partially settled their roots in what would be Lecelnan land, though many spread across all of the land.--"

"A faction of these visitors joined the most recent war for unity, joining a side and winning the war, forming the present kingdom. It is said that many of them left artifacts here, though they were stowed away in some underground cave. As for those who joined the war, many of them were not humanoid like we are, but rather looked like beasts. They still treated them all the same, and so the painting became a symbol of peace." She finished relaying the story then. Forester nodded, clearly appreciating the story.

"Thank you, miss." The clerk nodded, rotating to a typewriter and then continuing her work. Shortly after, Vallerie exited the elevator with an armed escort. She headed over to Forester. "Shall we go?" He nodded, speaking as he got up. "You will take your own form of transport?" She nodded to him, walking out with her own escort.

They both went into the airport, passing through designated diplomatic terminals. Vallerie spared a glance at Forester heading up the escalator into his jet, with an internally amazed face at its advanced appearance and its general strangeness, before passing into her own. Forester's aircraft proceeded to take off vertically, then followed by Vallerie's aircraft, which resembled a C-47. 

A transmission from Forester's aircraft told the C-47 crew not to worry, which confused them, until Forester's aircraft activated a gravity-lock acceleration and protection system, which would lock the C-47 gravitationally with Forester's IC-41 style aircraft allowing it to match speed, as well as a protection system preventing the pure speed from incinerating the aircraft due to friction.