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Treecuu Star Empire, Interstellar Space
0.12 Light Years from the Thoov System
The Yadmiel travelling through space, encased within its void bubble. Around it stands a swarm of much smaller bubbles, part of its fractalized void concert shield.
The Treecuu Star Empire had always piqued Tree of Life’s interest. The Treecuu were a young, but promising civilization, that had already expanded to a occupy considerable volume of space despite their age. Having learned about the existence of alien sapient life very early in their history, they had always had a deep-rooted desire to secure their territory and be recognized on the galactic stage between other civilizations. E had always found it rather curious how they would establish border “buoys” at the edges of their empire to signal their domain to other empires: an intriguing but rather risky move, that could attract unwanted attentions.
When the Terragen Empire’s interferometer arrays had first detected the energy emission signs from the region three centuries ago, it was a thriving area of space, with multiple early interstellar empires peacefully establishing themselves in harmony with one another and many still-planetary species developing on their homeworlds. Very, very promising indeed However, that sadly would not last.
Some 260 years prior, large swarms of unknown xenosophont ships entered the outernmost territories of the Terragen Empire, and began attacking many of the colonies in the Corewards Frontier. Despite still being able to cause notable amounts of damage to the newly settled systems, the HyperAIs within the region were able to quickly respond in the affected systems, and push back these swarmers outside of imperial territory without much issue. News of the attacks quickly spread through the empire, and many began to call these unknown aggressive xenosophonts the Rhyzeia Swarmers, a name derived from the first system that was affected by the short-lived “invasion”.
A fleet of hidden Eyes, followed the migrating Rhyzeia Swarmers outside of the Terragen Empire, and through the rest of Sector A1-0. After hundreds of lightyears of concealed pursuit within unclaimed interstellar space, the aggressive migrators eventually entered what would later become the TSE’s region of space. In there, the Eyes assisted to what the would soon become known as the Loo-Yee Calamities by the region’s natives: the Rhyzeia Swarmers plundered and attack the four interstellar empires that had been expanding through the region, causing levels of destruction far worse than those caused in the Corewards Frontier of the empire.
Although suffering devastating levels of destruction and death, the Treecuu were able to repel the Swarmers on their own, causing enough of a setback to convince them that continuing their invasion of the region was no longer worth it. After their defeat, they set course for the galactic core, and were never spotted again within all of the observed Sector. And while their absence became a relief, the situation within the region did not. The Treecuu’s newly militaristic and highly aggressive attitude towards the other local civilizations quickly became subject of worry, and their subsequent annexations and military expansions saddened many observing Terragens: what was once a promising volume of space teeming with sapience and peace, had now become the cradle of an aggressive, isolationist and militaristic empire. The final nail in this coffin of disappointment was observing how the Treecuu began to segregate all of the planetary and interplanetary civilizations within their own worlds and systems, preventing them from developing and reaching for the stars.
Now that the empire had entered a new age of interaction, the Treecuu Star Empire was naturally picked as one of the first few civilizations to be contacted. After all, the Eyes could only gather so much information by watching from the edges of the civilization, and many wanted to know more about what the situation was like now. Therefore Tree of Life sent out one of eir ships, the Yadmiel, rimwards and corewards to make contact with the isolationist xenosophonts. After some 18 hours in HyperBrane Insertion, the mighty ship re-entered realspace just 0.12 light years from the edge of the Thoov system. The Void Bubble instantly accelerated to almost 2200 times the speed of light, and began travelling towards Thoov. Within just 30 minutes, it would reach its destination.
