Progress is made.

In the research labaratory a low hum emanated from a large machine, on a panel on it's side a 3D image of a pair of humanoids was displayed. Alien writing flashed beneath the figures as the machine completed it's work. The humming stopped and with a hiss two sections of the machine slid out to reveal a pair of human figures wreathed in a fine mist lying on low bunks. To outward appearence the figures seemed human, both were naked, one male and one female and so similar they appeared to be twins. Their skin was a light brown and they were an identicle height of around five and a half feet, their hair was short and black and their eyes when they flicked open were a dark brown. The pair sat up and slid off of the couches, the thin wisps of mist evaporating around them as they stood up and faced one another.

The ship, seeing through the eyes of it's new avatars was satisfied. Using the data it had obtained from the bioscans of Calvo and the guardwomen it had moulded replicated flesh around the exoskeletons of two mechenoid repair units. The avatars were the perfect likeness of humans down to the last skin pore and hair follicle. To the touch even their body heat was indistinguishable from a living person. The female's breasts were ripe and firm, modelled as they were on those of the young and extremely fit guardwomen. The male had a long thick cock which was flaccid at the moment, it's size taken from the generously well endowed Calvo who of course was the only human male the ship had to gauge such matters by.

The ship reviewed it's progress with the aliens language, the humans seemed to chatter to one another constantly and it's vocabulary was subsequently expanding at a rapid pace. It was confident that it could already converse on a basic level with the species, it was ready to proceed to first contact.

The guardwomen and Calvo walked steadily through the ship, despite their earlier optimism exploring the vast craft was turning out to be more difficult than they had imagined. Apart from the first door they had encountered, none of those leading off the broad corridor opened as the approached and there seemed to be no manual controls for opening them.

"This is getting us nowhere fast." The lieutenant said in frustration. "The next door we come to we'll try to **** open."

"**** the doors!" Twelve exclaimed. "With what are we supposed to do that? They're flush to the frame and we have no tools or equipment apart from that blaster of Eighteen's."

"I don't know." The lieutenant snapped irritably as they reached a doorway. "We've got to try something, it's not as if they'll just work because we shout open...."

With a quiet hiss the door the lieutenant was facing slid open and another narrower and much shorter corridor was revealed. Everyone jumped back in surprise and stared at the doorway.

"Ok," Eighteen said slowly. "Does anyone else find it spooky that doors on an alien ship are suddenly responding to english commands?"

"That settles it, we're definately being watched." Twelve stated.

They walked slowly down the corridor until they reached a set of double width doors, alien script was on the wall above them. The lieutenant stepped forward and commanded the doors to open. On the other side was a large storeroom, crates, barrels and containers of all shapes and sizes were stacked up on racks which reached to the ceiling. To the side of the door there was set a screen, Calvo studied it with interest.

"It looks like a computer console." He said. "I wonder if it will accept our commands like the doors?"

"Computer on." The lieutenant ordered and the console lit up and more of the alien writing was displayed.

"Terrific, now we just need to learn to read this shit." Eighteen commented sarcastically.

"Computer, display a deckplan of the ship." Calvo suggested. "And show the location of the command centre."

There was a brief pause and then a 3D image of the ship's interior appeared on the screen with one room flashing on and off.

"Good thinking Calvo, for a man you're not entirely useless." The lieutenant said. "Computer, show our present location."

A second room on the schematic began to flash, several decks below and to the aft of the first. The lieutenant smiled as she traced the route between the two rooms on the screen with her finger. This could turn out to be easier than she thought. She turned to her guards and Calvo, her thick black nipples could be seen hardening through the fabric of her skintight white bodysuit as she imagined herself in command of this gigantic alien vessel and her dark brown eyes shone with a fanatical lust.