[Cyrien]

The Unification. -2400.3

Finally the first of the space craft were completed. Each of the worlds that had been settled produced their own and the Alteri were joined once again, not just in mind but in truth as well. The strange gravitational anomalies had been investigated. They were the key to the future.
Through them ships could pass vast distances in an instant. The Alteri had been ready to consruct vast ships that could sustain many many Alteri and to send these out into the vastness of space each to settle upon a new distant star and spread the seed of the Alteri. These anomalies however removed all need for that.
Now the Alteri would spread far more rapidly. Before it had been estimated that expansion would take hundreds of years to reach even the nearest stars but it was now possible that they could reach the nearest in just a few months. Already the first ships were being built to go and colonize the unknown distant worlds that surely lay beyond what the weaker worker thought levels were now calling "Star Tunnels". These thought levels were all abuzz about the potential for new offspring and the many many resources that might be found on new worlds.

The higher thought levels had other concerns. Hidden from the lower levels was the fact that two ships had already moved through these Star Tunnels and beyond them found nothing but clouds of gas that might eventually form new stars and planets and a region of space with no star at all but many many asteroids. Taken with the data on their new home systems, which had little enough in common with each other, the Alteri elders now felt that the universe held many more mysteries than had first been thought. They didn't wish to worry the young workers but there might be more out in the universe to worry about than many had first believed.
Yet the elders felt certain that they would still move forward despite the deadly atmosphere that filled so many of the planets they had seen and the deadly asteroids and other unknowns that hurtled through space.
The elders decided to continue with their plans to move forward. Nothing must ever be allowed to stop the Alteri.
As the eldest Zyx removed himself from the immersion of the elders thoughts for a moment he felt a brief stab in the deepest reaches of his mind. The stab was strange and foreign but Lasted only the briefest of moments before it was gone. It was quickly forgotten.