Ela was desperate to reach the outpost. She accelerated her ship to 3 times the speed of light. The outpost was near an emission nebula. It used to glow dark purple and pinkish colour because there was many calcium outgassing from the nebula. From the outpost, the nebula looked like an enormous mountain. Sometimes there was lightning and thunders. Sometimes there were nebulous winds and storms, that touched the edge of the solar system, where the outpost was orbiting the 2nd star. Ela sat down on her chair and tried to understand why, after everything, she felt nervous. She tried to think the entire event through. There, she was, trying to haul a lot of cargo to a very faraway station, and she got interdicted by an alien federation who claimed to be from the other galaxy. Ela calmed down a bit. After several hours, the outpost came into view. It was majestic, rotating rings were sleeping and the habitat area and the centre was the science laboratory and a stellar observatory. She f

The reason why the UEC avoided contact with the Pre-FTL species of the milky way galaxy was that most of the time, contact could change their society to a path that could be very difficult to correct, but not outright impossible, but when they made contact with a spacefaring society, it became a huge issue. The political instability, combined with advanced technology could create an unimaginable amount of damage. In the Milky Way galaxy, these types of civil wars and political turmoils were contained and most of the time, UEC's intervention stopped these, but in the Andromeda galaxy? It was nearly impossible to stop. On top of that, the UEC didn't establish any bases yet, so they can't exactly call themselves a superpower, yet.When a pre-FTL society sees an advanced spacefaring civilization, the first things it loses are the religious and national identity, and then they become unified under a banner. This stage keeps them most vulnerable because many demigauges, populist leaders and

Selop started the video in a dark environment. The entire planet was full of volcanic ashes, and very little sunlight was coming. The entire area was full of dead plants and animals. There were Hronta ancestors and other animals within the pile of the dead. Ela had a question, "How did we overcome this?" Ela asked. "See, this is when the environment changed and forced us to walk on 2 legs," Selop started playing the video. What happened was the planet cooled down to an ice age, which trapped lots of carbon dioxide. Less carbon dioxide meant fewer plants to perform photosynthesis. Ice age also triggered a catastrophic insecticide event where almost all the pollinator insects went extinct. However, things kept dying because death was an inevitable part of life. The age of giant mushrooms started. Those mushrooms started to decompose corpses. However, the Hronta ancestors started to eat the mushrooms to stay alive. After several hundreds of thousands of years, the volcanic ashes settl

Captain Alina was looking at the sensors of the Butterfly. The sensors were very different from the standard sensors of the UEC ships. It also didn't help her the fact that the sensors didn't have discernable buttons on them. She stood up and desperately tried to find something to stop the Butterfly's twin beams. She knew that the butterfly is extremely fast, in fact, it thinks at the speed of light, so a human's decision could not be fast enough to stop it."STOP!" Captain shouted. She was worried about a diplomatic incident. After all, they seemed to be species that could have some ties with the UEC.The butterfly stopped its beams and started its cooldown session. Captain sighed a breath of relief.Ela finally said, "Captain, I want to come with you," she wasn't even hesitating, she just said it in a plain voice. Captain looked at her face, she was sad and somewhat lost. Some burning wreckages were floating behind her.Captain said, "Why did you do it? Faking a distress call?" she

Those 5 pilots had difficulty processing how an artificial life could have higher cognitive functions. Ela was standing in the corner with her gravity suit. She came in front and said, "I know how difficult it's to accept, but these people are not after us. These people are from a different galaxy, and they are here, just to explore and..." she stopped.One of those pilots said, "Explore and what? Add to their encyclopedia? How would that help?""For us, it matters, because we are so advanced that we have nothing else in our lives to struggle for. We have got almost everything sorted, now we just want to see the rest of the universe. So, yes, adding one more species to our catalogue would be great," the way the captain said seemed like she was angry. She then said, "We are actually a group of species working together. Working for a better future. We don't want any wars..." she stopped. Her mind went into the 1st battle with a slaver empire near the centre of the galaxy when she lost h