PageNotFound23 t1_isj19rn wrote on October 16, 2022 at 10:47 AM

Reply to comment by steptwoandahalf in [WP] When humanity became a space-faring species, no other intelligent species are discovered. Instead it's all barren and empty, leaving humanity afraid that they're alone in the universe, until one day an unknown spaceship arrived in a fringe system. by Additional_Twist7971

Advanced human or completely third person. Sorry I didn't realise I worded it weirdly.

PageNotFound23 t1_isf1qsz wrote on October 15, 2022 at 2:09 PM

Reply to comment by Additional_Twist7971 in [WP] When humanity became a space-faring species, no other intelligent species are discovered. Instead it's all barren and empty, leaving humanity afraid that they're alone in the universe, until one day an unknown spaceship arrived in a fringe system. by Additional_Twist7971

Thanks! I didn't know if it was too much of an exposition dump.

PageNotFound23 t1_isev17t wrote on October 15, 2022 at 1:12 PM

Reply to [WP] When humanity became a space-faring species, no other intelligent species are discovered. Instead it's all barren and empty, leaving humanity afraid that they're alone in the universe, until one day an unknown spaceship arrived in a fringe system. by Additional_Twist7971

[Quick Write]

The spaceship itself was old- really old, thousands of years outdated even by conservative estimates. It had no FTL capabilities, no onboard oxygen production systems, no way of producing sustenance, and it was still using liquid propellants. It was also extremely small, only having the capacity to store six crew members, a modern ships mess hall was capable of storing the entirety of the ship thirty times over, and still having room.

None of that was truly the peak of interest though. It was its cabin that was interesting- precisely the dimensions needed for a humanoid creature. Did life evolve into humans when it reached intelligence? Were they capable of understanding us? Were they carbon based? Perhaps we truly weren't alone.

All of that was disproven.

We deciphered the faded lettering on the side of the craft: Voyager 6 in a forgotten tongue, pre-intergalactic humanities attempt to reach for the stars and make it to Alpha Centauri, only for navigation to fail, flinging the ship into the proverbial space-boonies. Long since then, humanity had already colonised and terraformed any planets within a 5 light year radius of Hub World- Earth in that same forgotten tongue.

Despair, for humanity truly is alone. Despair, for the universe is barren.