As such they'd need to avoid massive environmental damage or they'd render the planet useless. The first is that they need a habitable planet to expand their population to and for whatever reason have little more in the way of terraforming tech than we have. So I hope you enjoyed it too.There are two other possibilities you skipped over (although one was mentioned earlier). How was it? I really liked how this turned out. TL'DR: Aliens don't have the concept of terraforming and are baffled when they see, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Ceres, Ganymede, Callisto, and a couple of hundred asteroids made habitable with the usage of planet engineering techlonogy and genetic modification. We had much to learn, and many worlds to give life to. We also modified life to put on them on other worlds, so they wouldn't die."Īfter the scientists went back home, Federation immidiately sent an invitation to the humans to join The Federation. We encased them with glass, then put things inside. "So you are saying that all the other habitable planets, moons and that dwarf planet were modified to this state?" Earth (their homeworld, the third planet) is the one only natural." We care for them, so they can stay like this. Their insides, air layer, to make them good. "What is that? It isn't translating properly." How do you have so many habitable worlds in your system? More than half of them are impossible to exist, one is too close to its star, and the other three are too distant." A race this advanced should have developed it by now." You have, positive? Your vessels, are peculiar and stranger." But tell us first, do you have any means of going faster than light?" To investigate the utter anomaly that is your native system. "Okay, first of all, what do you call yourselves?" Language conversion was still not complete, so the translation of "English" to Interstellar Common was not very solid. The famous linguistic Ghtoi, the daughter of Feduiy, was the one to initiate the first conprehensive conversation with a group of native scientists, accompanied by other scientists from her crew. They were taken care of, but were also ruthlessly inspected.Īfter about a quarter of a cycle of settling communications and the native scientists examining the their ships ravenously, both could finally engage in primitive discussions. As soon as they exited their ships, they were immidiately swarmed by these bipedal, furless, four-limbed mammals. Then they were docked onto a space station that was on the moons close orbit. It had bustling, shining cities and bright greenery on it, coupled by the blueness of the countless, big and small crater lakes on its surface. The outermost big moon of the innermost gas giant. Then they were transported to the nearest of the impossible worlds. Their ships were stopped by an unknown force and it wouldn't budge. When they arrived, they immidiately encountered other ships. It was a long, uneventful, but extremely exited and hyped journey. Even top-lead scientists all around The Federation hopped in to see it for themselves. Like expected, a very well-equipped expedition funded and ready almost instantly.
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But no matter what they tried, the sensors always showed what they always did. 8, freaking 8 habitable worlds in one, single star, with half of them simply being impossible to exist. It was simply impossible, especially the ones that were way out of their stars habitable zone. Two rocky moons of the innermost gas giant and the only moon of the third planet was also completely habitable, there was even a dwarf planet inside the inner asteroid belt that was also habitable. The detailed scans made everthing even more confusing and impossible, since it was also able to observe moons. The offical result were shocking.Īll rocky planets in the system were perfectly habitable to carbon-based life, with clear markings of an advanced civilisation present in all four of them. But the more detailed and focused scans just proved their claims. Their supposed impossible system was met with intense spectism at first. According to the young astronomer, the system housed not one, not two, but a statistically impossible four habitable planets. Until an young and amateur astronomer discovered an very strange anomaly that instanty took the attention the entirety of The Federation. With a planet count a bit higher than usual, we had simply named it 4996-0987 and were done with it. With the mandatory asteroid belt found on all. The star in question was a standard, small yellow star with 8 planets, four gas giants on outer orbits and four rocky planets in the inner. Couple of dozen cycles ago, we had discovered an star system along with many others in a nearby but newly-charted corner of the galaxy that was previously covered by immense dust clouds.