Interlude
Author's Notes: Whaaaaaaaaaa! What is this? Am I posting something new? Am I back? I don't know. I think I may be back, so long as life gets to normal. I've been super crazy with school and looking for work and getting my own place (ALL MINE) and getting a job and everyone screaming at me to do this and that and hunting for furniture and running into stupid guys with no common sense, okay, enough with that line of thought. But the real reason why I haven't been writing is the story is about to do a major shift and I haven't been able to figure out how to tackle it. But then I started writing and I came up with something. I'm just going to start from the beginning.
Now I know this portion is short, but now that I got a predictable schedule I may be able to write more from now on. I got a table I can type on. I got free mornings and evenings while having a stable income. I think it may work. And what's coming up in the story? New characters! New aliens! New twist and turns! And the drama llama will be making an appearance and will be very dramatic with a sweet little ending to it, I think. That's what I plan anyways. Anyways, I hope my readers have stuck with me while I've been depriving you of updates. I hope you can forgive me!
In the Milky Way Galaxy there are 400 billion stars orbiting a massive black hole. Orbiting these stars are planets and asteroids beyond count with life. This life is microbial life that can only be seen by a microscope. Of these worlds encircling stars over 100,000 fell into ideal conditions for complex life. Of these planets 5,000 are at various stages of civilization, whether the civilization is advancing in technology and enlightenment or retreating into a Dark Age or oblivion. And of these 5,000 there are hundreds that have reached interplanetary range. As time passes, and as eras come and go, as planets and their species develop or decline there are always around 5,000 civilization and several hundred interplanetary worlds.
The Local Galactic Community has had its share of wars. A dominate species has colonized other worlds and claimed it as their own. They have taken developing worlds under their wing and they have learned from their mistakes. Cooperation is far better than competition, they have learned. Claiming a world for your own is forbidden even if there is no intelligent life. Time passes and civilizations can suddenly emerge out of nowhere. New civilizations always wish to be taught by a more advance species, they wish to be saved from their own disasters, and thus they must not be helped. As the ancients learned over the vast reaches of time if you help a species they become dependent. They cannot fend for themselves and must always be given help.
The Local Galactic Community established itself over 200 million years ago. Civilizations have come and gone, some destroy themselves and some slip from one millennia to another as water slides over rocks. With the accumulated wisdom powerful civilizations have arose where individuals are nearly immortal and can harvest the full power of stars. They learned the laws of the universe millions of years ago and broke the speed of light while dinosaurs still walked the Earth. They have become so timeless and so powerful that they have become content.
While humans so desperately hunt for signs of life on other worlds some of their wisest leaders insist that the hunt is useless because they think if interplanetary civilizations did exist they would have taken over long before humans arrived. But it is quite the opposite. There are so many worlds, so many ancient civilizations that they do not feel compelled to reveal themselves to humans or to claim Earth for themselves. Why Earth when there are so many worlds? They have known about Earth and the myriad of living things on its surface. They are aware of the awakening civilization. They are watching, but will not reveal themselves. They are waiting for us to see for ourselves the worlds spread out before us and for us to reach past the speed of light ourselves. Only then would they be interested in contact.
The Poleepkwa landing upon Earth was a failure of oversight.
The Poleepkwa are a new, successful species from the Andromeda galaxy. They were not from the Local Galactic Community but occasionally interacted with them. Their species civilization was 85,000 years old, enough to be well established, yet young enough to still advance and invent. They, like most civilizations, advanced slowly, innovating and expanding only as necessary. Growing from Agriculture to the atom did not take them 10,000 years, but 50,000. But advancement and growth was stable for them, so much so that as their civilization progressed so too did their evolution. Advanced civilization naturally splits its members into hierarchies and since the Poleepkwa development was so stable the classes became biological inheritance. Nobles always came from nobles, engineers and scientists always inherited their father's gifts and the laborers were always docile and strong. No class was superior to another, since they were all needed for the good of the home world, the species, and future generations.
There is no doubt that comparing the two species, Humans and Poleepkwa the Poleepkwa are indeed technologically superior. As Alexander the Great was marching onwards to India the Poleepkwa were launching their first satellites into orbit. The Poleepkwa home world is massive in size, and rich in resources that can sustain the native species almost indefinitely. It has in its orbit seven satellites and its mass is so great it increases the weight of any object by three times. However the Poleepkwa only started exploring neighboring systems a few hundred years ago. For almost two thousand years their scientists concluded that the speed of light was impossible to break and all progress in space exploration was stagnant. Once they discovered the secret to interstellar travel they have been creating a network of colonies and started spreading their sphere of influence. One thing they learned is that going past the speed of light is quite doable, however it takes a lot of energy. Since the Poleepkwa became so enchanted with traveling the stars once they learned how to reach them they suddenly ran into a problem… how to power their faster than light engines. Suddenly the home world did not have enough resources to sustain the new travel hungry economy. Huge refinery ships were created to search out for the energy source their world needed. This was the catalyst for the crash landing on Earth.