Captain Berrocal smiled a bit though he shouldn't have. He turned towards Carl.

"Ah, I see our Cole Protocol has left its mark. Yes, those images are quite the standard procedure when one of our ships has been the victim of an act of war."

He let it sink in for a moment looking at the diplomats. They were the ones that fired first and unprovoked at that!

"Well, Chief Diplomat Charlotte-Imperial, I appreciate your honesty and thus I will give you mine. What you have seen in those images are what have shaped our society. In our part of the galaxy we have met barbarian races wishing to extinguish the life out of Mankind. Our populace was at times eaten by these beasts. Just the last war against the Velutarians costed the lives of 8.7 trillion Terrans, over half our population at the time. What you describe as atrocities, we call a days work."

He smiled when he said that, though he quickly changed to a more serious and pragmatic stance.

"Any place you have available, preferably the closest to your capital, will do. We aren't that picky when meeting our new Terran brothers, though would a fly-by of the capital still be possible? If all the three officials would come during our visit there, that would be most satisfactory."