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An unusual planetary system
Jan. 22nd, 2020 06:20 amThis is a setiup I've been playing with for the Swarm shared universe.
In that universe humans were contacted by a confederation of aliens (who are scared silly of us) because There's an even *more* scary species moving down the galactic arm.
The Sa'arm are some sort of hive-mind, and nobody has been able to communicate with them. They discover a suitable planet ("Earthlike") land, and start harvesting all the resources in sight. This includes the inhabitants, if any.
They dig in *literally) and start producing more Sa'arm, and more ships. Eventually they've used up all the resources they can get at and abandon the planet. the ships they've produced go hunting more worlds to exploit.
The aliens (and humans) are often ignored, until they get in the way, or encounter a food harvesting party. If they attack, they get swarmed and killed.
Being pacifists, the member races of the Confederacy get slaughtered. so they contact us. We weren't their first choice, but that species suicided upon contact because they were *extremely* xenophobic.
Contact with us has a lot of problems. But a deal of sort is worked out. We get access to some technology, and ion return we go fight the Sa'arm (and try to build defenses on Earth).
Anyway, the Confederacy names systems for the jmajor inhabited planet by adding the suffix "-at" to the name of the world. So we live in the Earthat system. this is important...
So there are ships surveying space to look for planets we might colonize, planets the Sa'arm have colonized, and anything else that may be useful. The prelim stuff is done by ships popping out of hyperspace every so often and taking scan of the surrounding sky. These get combined to make 3D maps and decide which stars bear a closer look.
( Discovery of the system )
( system stats )
( A bit of local color )
In that universe humans were contacted by a confederation of aliens (who are scared silly of us) because There's an even *more* scary species moving down the galactic arm.
The Sa'arm are some sort of hive-mind, and nobody has been able to communicate with them. They discover a suitable planet ("Earthlike") land, and start harvesting all the resources in sight. This includes the inhabitants, if any.
They dig in *literally) and start producing more Sa'arm, and more ships. Eventually they've used up all the resources they can get at and abandon the planet. the ships they've produced go hunting more worlds to exploit.
The aliens (and humans) are often ignored, until they get in the way, or encounter a food harvesting party. If they attack, they get swarmed and killed.
Being pacifists, the member races of the Confederacy get slaughtered. so they contact us. We weren't their first choice, but that species suicided upon contact because they were *extremely* xenophobic.
Contact with us has a lot of problems. But a deal of sort is worked out. We get access to some technology, and ion return we go fight the Sa'arm (and try to build defenses on Earth).
Anyway, the Confederacy names systems for the jmajor inhabited planet by adding the suffix "-at" to the name of the world. So we live in the Earthat system. this is important...
So there are ships surveying space to look for planets we might colonize, planets the Sa'arm have colonized, and anything else that may be useful. The prelim stuff is done by ships popping out of hyperspace every so often and taking scan of the surrounding sky. These get combined to make 3D maps and decide which stars bear a closer look.
( Discovery of the system )
( system stats )
( A bit of local color )
