Introduction
Sentients of the Stars, both known and unknown, this one welcomes you. Greetings and salutations.
This one is named Elysia and, for those sentients unfamiliar, belongs to the Xylokthian race. A full description of this one's race would drift this post and delay the purpose of this editorial, so will be held off for the moment.
On Xyloptha, this one's home planet, this one is a scholar, researcher and diplomat. For the talents this one holds in these areas, this one's Queen chose to send this one, of all xyloke possible, on an expedition to discover and catalogue a race that was recently discovered at the edge of known space!
This one could not have been more excited! That was what thought tore through this one's mind. A new species! New cultures and sciences! And so many questions!
What is their life based on? Is it carbon-based like this one's own? Silicon-based like the noble Luminari? Perhaps rarer still, boron-based like the stalwart Xalorian?
Upon receiving the geologic survey data, this one's questions grew more numerous...
The planet, at the first and barest of glances, appeared to be a garden world, but some of the information discredited this.
Rather than a solid outer layer, the planet almost appeared to have a segmented exoskeleton! The separate plates moved and shifted, albeit slowly, and had the potential to not only change the landscape, but trigger chain-reactions that could (and often do) vibrate the outer layer and even spill the planet's molten life-blood across its own surface!
This one's conclusion is that this planet, dubbed Sol-3 or Terra based on intercepted transmissions being radiated from the planet, can be categorized as a Deathworld.
A more specific classification will have to wait until this one can observe conditions on the planet's surface.
The current date is XD (Xylokthian Date): 4682 Cycle, 3rd Azuran, 12th Luminalis
When this one has learned the dating system of these... Terrans, this one will display the converted date.
Elysia of Xyloptha, signing off.