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The first thing I learned about humans was that they were difficult to satisfy. The second was that they were considerably more difficult to stop. Our station had operated for 186 years without a...

First Thacea Emma had been… sparing with the details of humanity’s darker legacies prior to this point. Though she had, through a tangent of an allusion, made mention of precisely one conflict...

My job is to study dead civilizations. More precisely, I investigate why they died out, or why some civilizations managed to survive. Their reasons for survival, their wars, victories, defeats......

\[First Contact\] \[Dark Ages\] \[First\] \[Prev\] \[Next\] \[wiki\] \[Black Screen - Fade in words\] Fifty years together \[Fade out words - sound effect: hammer on steel, 2.6 seconds\] \[Fade in...

Ever piss off a human? I don’t mean make a human mad. They get mad over the stupidest shit. I mean really, truly piss off a human. I’ve only ever seen it once, and to be honest, I really wish I...

I was walking to the lounge to meet the human for the first time. “Good afternoon, Mr. Johnson. My name is Fgorm Poght, Head Researcher on the ship Know Everything,” I introduced myself politely....

First For Newest England “Sir Philip Speaking.” He answers his communicator by turning it into broadcast mode. “Oh dear, you do bear quite the resemblance to my former student.” “Do I?” Danburi...

First For Newest England “Alright students. We have yet to get a full cooperation from the La’ahbaron forces. The differences in technology and culture are the major impediments. Therefore we’re...

The Council needed only one thing before deciding to go to war: a reliable military assessment confirming that humanity was an easy target. Preparing that assessment was my responsibility. I must...

First For Newest England “... I know for a fact there was no way you could have predicted this.” Dis. T. Ortion notes. “Of course not. This is preparation. I knew there would need to be a place of...