A Personal Account of Recent Confederacy History

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The Galactic Confederacy was in complete chaos.

Everything had been moving along quite nicely, and then the Humans appeared to ruin it all.

First, they stopped in the Blagdorf system and introduced them to agriculture. The Blagdorfs had been mass producing their food for millennia! It was a thriving hub for export and then they started “growing” their resources. Now it is almost impossible to find authentic Blagdorf Schnitzel in any corner of the universe.

Then! Then they decided to hop on over to the Kankor System and end their thousand year old blood fued with the Arelians. An incredible feat, to be sure- except now they had two of the most terrifying races in the Confederacy as staunch allies. And the Aurelians have refused to share their weapons technology, the blighters.

Their third stop was Andar-12B, a relatively small and unknown planet resting on the outer rims of the Confederacy Hub system. Rather primitive, to be sure. And so what did the Humans do? Why, gifted them FTL travel of course! The race from Andar-12B, who called themselves Terrans, had begun tentative exploration into their region, but this! It was sacrosanct amongst the Confederacy not to interfere with developing worlds. And the Humans had done so without a care at all.

Finally, their flagship touched down on the home planet of the Confederacy, Andromaeda. All members of the High Council, as well as privileged scribes, were present for the first meeting with the Humans.

It did not go as expected.

It began when the leader of their party (4 women, 3 men) flourished a clearly ironic bow at the Head Councilman, Jarak from the Kaiser region. As she straightened, an expression I can only describe as pure madness crossed her rather dull features. There were no special physicality’s about this race at all. They were quite boring, to look at anyway.

As the Council welcomed the Humans to the Confederacy, they glanced between one another before looking to their leader to respond. I will never forget the words she spoke, as long as I live.

“We aren’t here to join your Confederacy.”

Everything was silence. Head Councilman Jarak was still, as if he had been carved from diamond. No one had ever refused to join. You couldn’t really refuse. It wasn’t an option.

And yet, these were Humans. They ruin things, after all.

One of the younger Councilman, a native man, stepped forward and asked the question on everyone’s lips. Or, perhaps questions.

“Then why are you here? And where did you come from?”

The Human party smiled, as if they had been waiting for this very opportunity. You could almost see everyone present lean forward in anticipation.

“We came from the stars.”

The Leader of the party looked towards the darkened sky, and almost whispered her final words.

“And we are trying to find our way home.”

(part 1/? maybe if you like it)