Alien

It's lonely out there.

For nearly two hundred and fifty years, mankind has searched for sentience elsewhere. Massive arrays of sensors cover nearly a thousand cubic light-years of space, stretching from Sirius, to Tau Ceti, to Procyon... Others are on their way to more distant stars, such as Chara, Vega, and Arcturus.

Life existed elsewhere, that much was certain - organic compounds and microbes hide in their little niches on countless rocks. Alpha Centauri hosts no less than three worlds with clear signs of life.

But the radios were silent. Only the occasional pulse of a neutron star or similar cosmic event generates any notice. If sentience exists elsewhere in the Galaxy, it is very, very far away.

Except, some will tell you, it's been right here all along.

Few doubt the existence of the mobius patterns. Strange waveforms released into our Universe due to various experiments into faster-than-light travel, somehow able to exist within, or upon, our Universe, they are living music.

They are Power.

Controlled and bred, they can reverse entropy. Focused, they can create something out of 'nothing', their songs working magic in the mythical sense.

Rumor has it, every living being has their own song.

Rumor has it, a few have found them.

Revelations

Until the arrival of the dyrajt during the Contact War, there was no sign of sapient life elsewhere. Discoveries such as the Centaurus Relic suggest that intelligent life is not too uncommon, if a tad on the rare side.

At least within the context of the Milky Way, humanity's competition could be considered to be found wanting. Since another decade is more than enough time, given the technology the dyrajt possessed, for a race to cross the entire galaxy seeking the source of the signal produced by the destruction of Kennedy Station, it is generally assumed that no other such civilization exists.

The others, and cognita primus are considered to be the most immediate threats humanity is currently facing. Most assume that other civilizations in the Universe must have seen the tachyon pulse, however, the distances involved are so great it is often considered a long-term concern.