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A Sable (with her two headmates) appears in orbit of a superhero world, wearing a Violet Power Ring.
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She lets herself slip back out of the perspective of that particular asteroid being a threat to people she cares about, blinking for a moment.

Well. That certainly works. How's her ring charge?

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[64%]

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She nods, hums thoughtfully. <Shall we?>

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An eager mental nod.

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Well then~

She preps another FTL burst and zooms back to Earth.

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Zoom!

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Earth! Fascinating, cape-tastic Earth, and their new home! Maybe, after a lot of research, she can even give Maya and Neo bodies of their own!

She looks and scans around curiously, to see if anyone's investigating all the glowing she's been doing, both now and earlier.

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[Love required.]

There's nothing obviously different with unaided vision, at least.
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Silly girl. She'll try that again.

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She would honestly love to have a welcoming committee, whether friendly or hostile, and scans for anyone investigating her flashy arrival.

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There's some sort of gravitic wake the ring can spot - though oddly enough not an accompanying source. 

There's also a supersuited woman flying swiftly through space to meet you. 

Beyond that, there's a handful of satellites that look to be working to scan in your direction, and adjusting course to take a look at you. Some of them are scan shielded too, and large enough that you could plausibly fit someone to meet up with in there.

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People! Someone came by to investigate, and there are satellites pointed at her, and there's a cape flying toward her! Eeee! <Maya, Neo, we're about to meet a local cape! No idea if she's a hero or villain, but it'll be fun finding out!>

 

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<Exciting, love!>

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She twirls excitedly in place, then turns to face the incoming flyer, zipping just a bit closer to meet her and waving excitedly.

<I wonder what she's like.>

Actually, that's a good point. She'd love to know what this incoming cape is like. Does facial recognition turn up a Wikipedia article on her?

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She's reasonably well known - Her hero name is "Centuria" - She's one of the higher ranking members of the Freedom League. She's apparently from some sort of alternate timeline and came to this universe in a way that granted her a suite of flight, durability and super strength. The scans bear out with the little information that you have - there's some sort of complicated subspace warping effect around her body that seems consistent with the descriptions.

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Centuria sounds like an excellent welcoming committee, personally experienced with a variant on the whole "not from this world" thing. She loves meeting and talking with new people.

Is that subspace effect giving her enough atmosphere to talk, or does she have a communicator of some kind?

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She has a radio setup - It's more or less a conventional smartphone and satellite phone's cellular systems mashed together with a powerful radio that looks like it'd be usable within a solar system.

The ring has a little bit of difficulty analyzing the effect in any detail, but it seems like she could probably talk normally, though it wouldn't transmit more then a few inches from her skin? It's not that clear, though she is clearly going through the motions of breathing normally.

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Communicator and enough air to breathe will do just fine for saying hello to her new friend. When Centuria gets close enough for facial expressions to be easily visible, Sable dials her communicator with the ring.

"Hello! Are you the welcoming committee?"

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"Hello. I'm Centuria, of the Freedom League. Is this the purple spaceflyer we detected in the system earlier?"

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"Mmmhm! I am!" She waves cheerfully. "You can call me Violet Lantern. I unexpectedly arrived in your universe, and treated myself to a bit of sightseeing before coming back to Earth orbit to figure out who to say hi to first on the way to finding a place for myself locally, and then you saved me the trouble by flying up here yourself."

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"I understand. The Freedom League is happy to accept alien guests, so long as they behave in accordance with local laws and customs. Do you have an adequate method of ascertaining those with you?"

She pauses, her mic muting for a few seconds. 

"Our scanners weren't familiar with the method of faster then light travel you were using, and had some difficulty tracking it. Would you mind telling us about the technology you are using?"

She's still flying up towards you at about 10 km/s. She'll be there in a couple of minutes, at this rate.

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"If they're accessible on the internet, or you point me at a hardcopy somewhere, I can track down your laws easily enough. I've seen a very brief overview already. Customs might be a bit more complicated, because I doubt most worlds have a convenient 'our customs as seen from the perspective of a mundane Earth' summary posted."

She grins, about to continue, but pauses for a fraction of a moment.

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A sudden and brief image of the ring sitting atop a math test, with a rose hanging above.

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Aha. <Good idea, sweetness. Thank you.>

She hums thoughtfully. "As for my FTL, I'd be glad to tell you about what I can do under the same sorts of confidentiality as power testing — and ideally not up here where satellites could be eavesdropping."

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"Legal codes are generally available online, yes. Custom guides are generally designed for people from a different region visiting another with different practices - though those can have their own implications. If you'd prefer, an escort can be arranged to ensure reasonable compliance and a minimum of headaches." 

She quirks her head a little. 

"'Mundane Earth'? I'm not sure what you mean by that."

She nods slightly. 

"I'm willing to accomodate that. In that case, I'd also recommend that you make sure that you talk in a warded location. The Freedom League HQ in Freedom City, United States is the most secure location we could offer, but many other regions provide some degree of confidentiality. Do you have any special requirements I should keep in mind for selecting a site?"

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