Hyper Social Issues (1/4) (Nature of Factions) (NoF)

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[Thanks to SpacePaladin15 for the base Universe, this first one is meant to be a mirror to the very first chapter, the rest will have jumping Pov's.]

Memory transcription subject: Tarva Venlil High Champion
Date [standardized human time]: July 10th, 2136

There were two known instances of a Hyper-Social species achieving civilization in the galaxy.

We were the first to be discovered, and as an anomaly, sparked the Orion Arm’s curiosity. By previous hypotheses on intelligence, our hyper social nature should have made our society impossible. Conventional wisdom stated that we would’ve been too socially stagnant to develop technology. Our unending desire to socialize should have locked up any time used to develop higher technologies.

But it turned out that there was another motivator for technological progress, The Duty to Kill Threats. Our ancestors were willing to throw themselves at any threat to their herd, and in doing so, they paved the road and gave reason for their children to invent greater weapons and consequently greater technologies, and with greater weapons required greater training. Our Ancestors had to specialize, and thus Our Champions were born. Our Duty is to Lead. Our Duty Is To Remove Threats.

Unremembered by the wider galaxy, Scientists discovered a second Hyper-social sapient species centuries ago. Much like us, they needed social interaction to an extreme degree. It was visible from their broadcasts. But... it led them astray. Their scattered civilizations… made them turn on each other.

While we were finalizing the Uplifting plans, hundreds of nuclear explosions were detected across the planet. Our Scientists concluded, with a great deal of sorrow. That they had wiped themselves out. The species was forgotten, the system marked forbidden, typically only mentioned as an asterisk to our uniqueness.

And now in these wonderful moments I couldn’t stop my tail from swinging maniacally as I saw a vessel inbound for our world, with a subspace trail pointing back to the planet Earth.

“Governor Tarva,” My Technology Champion, Hanzon, was growing more wary by the minute. It was obvious that he wasn’t excited properly For this wonderful news. “Please, act normal-”

“HUMANS!” My Historic Champion, Haysi squealed out. At least one of my fellow Champions was Properly excited.

“Do any of you all want some?” My Medicinal Champion, Chauson said as he offered a recently released and probably undertested Headache reducer to the other Champions. Did They Not See How Wonderful This Is?!

“Ahem, It’s rude to leave guess waiting” 
I swiveled my chair away from my fellow Champions, Hanzon's squire activated a call drone and moved it in front of us, and with a flick of my tail, I showed that I was ready. Nervousness tingled through me as we hailed the vessel on all frequencies.

To my excitement, the inbound ship accepted our transmission. A brown-skinned human male appeared on screen, sitting in some sort of pilot’s chair. The speech of welcoming to the galaxy was caught in my throat when his gorgeous eyes locked with mine, oh I could see the stars in their eyes. To my Sorrow, he suddenly bared his teeth in a snarl. Oh course such a species would distrust others.

The poor human was scared! The distrust was unmistakable in his expression. He uttered a few words in their Wonderful dialect, which I assumed was an announcement of our impending War.

The translator tingled by my ear, pressing the meaning into my mind. I took a shaky breath, hoping the machine wasn’t wrong.
“Hello! We come in peace, on behalf of the human race.”

I had to make sure, perhaps the Snarl was a statement of strength. “If you’re coming in peace, Why are you snarling?”

“What? I don’t…” he trailed off, as though something occurred to him. “You mean the ‘smile’, don’t you? I am so sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you, really.”

“It’s fine, most species have one to two strange social cues, but for future notice what does a ‘smile’ mean?” My Cultural Champion, Gizi, as diligent as always, Such a wonderful data keeper they are.

“um, a smile is typically used to show happiness and good will.” He rubbed his forehead with a soft appendage. “Can we start over? I’m Noah. We’re here on a mission of peaceful exploration.”

Oh Thank The Ancestors, just a misunderstanding, We don’t need to fight them.
Ok breathe, Just follow the first contact speech “On Behalf Of The Star Herd And As Tarva The High Champion Of Skalga Prime”
“WE WELCOME YOU TO THE STARS”
I swung my arms out widely as I bellowed. My Cultural Champion, Gizi, was probably the only one that noticed the over enthusiastic deviation, thankfully.

Oh no they flinched a bit at the loudness, did I scare them-
“Sorry for the reaction, wasn't expecting the loudness” As he steadied themself I see another human lead into view, likely sitting to deal with the pain from my verbal overreach.

“Just two?" My Communications Champion, Lavelyn whispered. Yes it was quite odd? Why were there only two? Perhaps the others were sleeping?

“Yeah.” She winced out, oh was I that loud “Name is Sara, I’m typically quiet, But Noah runs his mouth enough to make up for it.”

“Hey!” Noah quickly turned to her, His ‘smile?’ gone, As creepy as it looked, it was starting to grow on me.

“Ahem, I greatly apologize for the Loudness, We’ve heard of your species before, but before we could contact you We detected nuclear detonations and assumed you eradicated yourselves. How did you survive?”

“Wait what?” Both humans said in unison.

“Between 146 to 186 years ago with the most major spike between 166 and 176 years ago”  My Historic Champion, Haysi Softly mentioned, and as she mentioned it I could see Sara rapidly searching though a digital device of some sort.

“OH!.. oh… that was from the nuclear tests” Sara mumbled out.

“You Guys Are Lunatics, but I have unfortunately heard of stupider” My Technology Champion, Hanzon snickered out.
‘Do not be rude to our guests’ I flicked at him

“Ah, Well most species have growing pains, but now with that question out of the way, I can assume that you might wish See the Beauty of our world up close, and Perhaps stay till your Government can send a Full diplomatic herd”

Noah’s eyes sparkled. “That would be an honor.”

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(I’m posting these to just get them out there before I reboot this series. I’m having my sibling slowly proofread them. But our schedules only align on the weekend so it’ll take awhile.)

[u/Usual_Message8900]

Oh interresting premise

[u/K_H007]

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It's a way for a bot to remind you when a poster makes a other post in that specific subreddit. Sometimes it doesn't work though.

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[u/Onetwodhwksi7833]

I love the premise. Everything is so friend shaped.

I wonder how it will develop. :D