How Do We Communicate: ET Speculations

This thought has been with me ever since the UP were first discovered. More recently I have found myself thinking, "What constitutes communication?"

This is all purely conjecture ahead~

Let's say there are seven species or syntheticraces in our immediate future:
Soontill
Merope
Thargoids
Heart and Soul
Lysoom
Pueleia
Jacques

I list these by either name or a speculation of where they might be located.

Taking account our failure to encounter some of these I'll presume three of them are dead, hiding, or have left this galaxy:
Thargoids
Soontil
Heart and Soul

At least one of these races possessed superlative technologies:
Thargoids

It is possible at least one of these is synthetic:
Lysoom or Pueleia

With all of this taken together a fairly simple description comes to mind how to think of how we might encounter one of these races:
- Abandoned ruins: irradiated, chemical weapons attacked, or other malidy
- Deserted ruins: nothing wrong with the site, abandoned for reasons of inability to defend
- store houses (abandoned)
- store houses (occupied)
- store houses (unoccupied, but in use)
- Rogue AI relics: Drones basically like our sentinels might be if we were wiped out... perpetually guarding nothing any longer... but still there... still active... still hostile.
- Indirect Contact: Sitings
- Indirect Contact: Deliberate show of presence
- Direct contact with ship-to-ship comms
- Direct contact via SRV
- Direct contact via forced entry to ship
- Other-unknowns

The only question I really want to ask is, "If you had a chance to communicate where would you begin?"

I'd try to establish a True-False code.
a. - Flash lights 1 second, pause 1 second; repeat 3 times.
b. - Wait one second after sequence a is finished then Flash lights three times rapidly.
c. - repeat a.
d. - Flash lights 4 times. Honk.

Having watched Babylon 5 I realize all this leads to is the Earth-Minbari War. Therefore, I have absolutely no idea how I'd go about signally non-hostilities. Has anyone imagined anything about this? Is it even possible?
We have a fairly limited amount of ability to communicate from our ships to someone else. And that's within our own species. I have absolutely no idea where to begin with another.
 
I plan on likely ignoring them or treating them the same as any other potentially hostile threat in the game, though it would be interesting to see if we could work out some sort of mutually beneficial relationship, such as trading technologies, etc.
 
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