Athame:
A call from huerta memorial hospital sent Athame rushing from her ships medibay to greet what appeared to be a species from a parallel universe. In her 680 years she had never heard of anything such as this. Sure new species were being discovered all the time, recently with humans, and the Yahg, but never from a completely new dimension.
The myriad of small objects orbiting her in a biotic field almost dropped when she heard the news. The media wasn't very forthcoming with any specifics about the nature of the ship or its occupants, and she had missed the council chambers live feed. When her old assistant tasked with dealing with the medical study of this alien creature from the UNSC called, she just had to find out what kind of creature it was.
"So pleased to see you Athame" said Daniel as they met. He looked like he had just seen the goddess herself walk through the door. And indeed whenever he had felt out of his depth and Athame stepped in to help he did refer to her as "The Goddess". Daniel had the makings of a good doctor; determined and intelligent, but just a little bit naive, believing he could save everyone all the time, and taking any losses hard.
"You too. What exactly is it that we're dealing with here?" Athame said cautiously. She was of course open to the idea of new species, variety is the spice of life, and Daniel was one of her closest friends and he was a human, but she was worried because the last time a completely new species appeared from beyond the furthest reaches of the galaxy it decimated entire civilisations taking billions of lives along with it.
Her datapad quivered in the field as she remembered the horrors of the reaper indoctrination. Harvesting live people of all races and turning them into, vicious abominations for which there was no hope of healing.
"An entirely new race!" Daniel exclaimed, breaking Athame out of her memories. "And not just one that's been discovered on an undiscovered planet, she is a fully evolved life form. I just knew you had to see this" He petered out at the end. It was clear he was honoured as well as terrified about the whole situation.
"It's ok Daniel, We'll do this by the book, record the data we need, no need to go making the patient feel uncomfortable. Has she submitted herself to be examined yet?" asked Athame
"We sent the message, and she seems to be happy with it." replied Daniel.
"Good. I really want to get a chance to talk to her. Imagine. An entirely different universe. It must be a bit disorientating for her... Make her feel at home, did you even get her name?" Athume scolded.
"She said to call her Mee, Apparently humans have difficulty pronouncing her name."
"Any idea on when she'll get here?" Athume asked
"She should be here any moment now."