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# Background | # Background | ||
## The story is one of first contact and a central element is that the evolutionary line on Earth is a deviation from the "normal Saurian line" for the development of life on planets like it. | ## The story is one of first contact and a central element is that the evolutionary line on Earth is a deviation from the "normal Saurian line" for the development of life on planets like it. | ||
## The density and history of planets with life and intelligent life in the universe generally are elements. The former is given a value on the conservative end of the orders of magnitude between 1 per "galaxy like ours" and 4 10<sup>4</sup> which was Drake's original figure, e.g. say 5 for the per galaxy count and 10<sup>6</sup> for the galaxy count which is 50 million worlds where life has independently reached the stage of scientific civilization. | ## The density and history of planets with life and intelligent life in the universe generally are elements. The former is given a value on the conservative end of the orders of magnitude between 1 per "galaxy like ours" and 4 10<sup>4</sup> which was Drake's original figure, e.g. say 5 for the per galaxy count and 10<sup>6</sup> for the galaxy count which is 50 million worlds where life has independently reached the stage of scientific civilization. | ||
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## After reaching the Omega point worlds do not necessarily end their ethical development in a condition which we expect for advanced being. In particular some races reach that point and seek to expand their physical range in a manner similar to that in which civilization has developed on the Earth. | ## After reaching the Omega point worlds do not necessarily end their ethical development in a condition which we expect for advanced being. In particular some races reach that point and seek to expand their physical range in a manner similar to that in which civilization has developed on the Earth. | ||
## So physics that we know is taken seriously but assumed to be primitive. It is assumed that there are means to communicate over cosmic distances more or less instantaneously but physical travel requires that the travelers essentially commit to being settlers of the target of any journey which would separate them by cosmological or even intersectorial distances. Thus any expansion done after reaching the level at which it could be accomplished must be done within a relatively small radius of one's homeworld. ''Communications'' however are not limited and thus a larger, higher level universal culture exists which perforce does have the ethical level we assume for the endpoint of development. | ## So physics that we know is taken seriously but assumed to be primitive. It is assumed that there are means to communicate over cosmic distances more or less instantaneously but physical travel requires that the travelers essentially commit to being settlers of the target of any journey which would separate them by cosmological or even intersectorial distances. Thus any expansion done after reaching the level at which it could be accomplished must be done within a relatively small radius of one's homeworld. ''Communications'' however are not limited and thus a larger, higher level universal culture exists which perforce does have the ethical level we assume for the endpoint of development. | ||
# Plot | # Plot | ||
