The souls of the stars.

-Xatui-

Wind Flame: "I am at the ready, however this will work. Orange lights still showed, now tinged with the white of curiousity.

Vangarel: "I am glad you like it, for I made it myself, with naught but my claws to chisel and the flame of my breath to burn off and shape." He waited patiently for whatever gift Preathus had for him.

- Xatui -
The ship squeked.
"Okay... I'm going to try to connect, now."

Preathus returned with a curved case, golden in colour, metal.
"Hmm, it is an AI. He contains much information that our leader had deemed you trustworthy of having about us. He refuses to agree to a name, however."

-Xatui-

Wind Flame readied his circuitry for an incoming data transmission.

Vangarel took the AI gently, thoughtful at this open display of trust. "This is quite an... honor, Preathus. To give this openly to the leader of my people... I already have a suggestion for a name. Honor."

- Thyala -
Ssisithus phoned another Thylani, the Hyterian Matrix controller.
"Put the Manufacturing of the Matrix to seventy-five percent for seven hours." Ssisithus told him.
"Of course." The Thylani replied.

- Xatui -
The stream loaded the image of a large, blank room. Xatui appeared as a largely shapeless thing, like a shadow.

Preathus laughed.
"Perhaps. I guess you will se when you have the chance to speak with him."
The Bythis sat down again and studied the gift he had been given.

-Xatui-

Wind Flame appeared as a shapeless light made up of trillions of 1's and 0's indistinguishable to the eye, and looked around him and then at Xatui. "I see that our differences show in virtual reality: the difference between a living being and pure hardware."

Vangarel sat and looked at the AI thoughtfully, but grew startled and distracted by a lout grumbling noise in the room. His face grew red as he realized it was his own belly.

- Thyala -
Confident that the Matrix would produce items, Ssisithus turned to another channel.
"You can now upgrade all our present factories." He hissed.
"Thank you Lord Ssisithus." The other replied.

- Xatui -
The shadowy avatar came close to the other and looked at it curiously.
"Yes, I suppose."

"Ah. Food, yes." Preathus said, before tapping a small light on the table's surface.
The table opened up and the two halves slid to the side. A large tray of food rose from the new gap.

- Thyala -
Ssisithus took a computer-thing and began writing reports.
The reports were on numerous things, from settling down to factory output.

-Xatui-

Wand Flame: "So what now?" His light was the white of curiosity tinged with a bit of yellow at the fear of something new.

Vangarel: "This looks really good..." He waited for the other to take the first bite."

- Xatui -
"I do not know. At least it works." Xatui said.

Preathus took a fish-like thing from the table and devoured it swiftly.

-Xatui-

Wind Flame: "So it would seem. I have never seen myself in an actual form like this..." He examined the differences between himself and Xatui again, intrigued.

Vangaral blinked and ate more slowly, mind deep in thought. "What next, my friend?"

- Xatui -
Xatui gave Wind Flame a gentle poke.

"Politics. Other such boring things." Preathus sighed.

- Thyala -
Ssisithus finished writing his reports. He then rose and exited the room.

- General's Hive -
The first Thylani general looked at a holomap of the surronding star systems. The second said something unintelligible. Another few Thylani entered the structure.
"Well, this is the Porpucan system, we could possibly construct a colony there." The first said.
The others muttered to eachother.
"Possibly, how would we support a colony though?" One asked, and then another began.
"Lets stuff hundreds of thousands of colonists into a ship and send it to a planet and it'll be alright!" It said.
The Thylani then finished, "Not likely."