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What, you thought it would be another "enlightened aliens make judgments on barbaric hoomans for their sins against humanism based on superficial familiarity with their culture"? Ha!



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We're being called out oh no

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I was going to post a question for Quantum in the Q&A, but then I realized I need this first: What is the Alliance's word for biological citizens, as opposed to AIs? I've been mentally using "bionts" since that's what Orion's Arm uses.

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I don't think they have one? They just use "members", or "humans" for that.

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I love how she outright points out that her kind were also telling these kinds of stories in science fiction as well. I really like when alien species acknowledge their similarities to humanity.

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Should say "why didn't he transmit yet". Words got switched.

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If I may offer you some counterexamples, Quantum: Atomic Robo, Freefall, Schlock Mercenary, Starwalker.

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Well...I mean....I guess you showed us, didn't you. :-)






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The Alliance space stretches for an impressive 16 thousand light years along the longest axis and contains approximately 12 billion star systems. Despite that, 99.99% of those star systems haven't been explored even by an automatic mapping drone yet, and the borders of the Alliance space are defined mostly by the reach of spaceships from the nearest colony or space station, and in general are purely informative.