[Cyrien]

Somewhere in the depths of space a being has taken its first tentative steps into the great unknown. Undisputed masters of all they survey, they move outward. Outward and onward. Who knows what mysteries await them?

Alteri Homeworld -

The messenger rushed into the room with news he was sure the Grand Speaker would be overjoyed to hear.
"Grand Speaker! Grand Speaker! The council has decided! They have accepted your proposal! We shall extend further into space! These strange worm holes will be investigated!"
The messenger stopped and seemed surprised when the Grand Speaker did not react to his words.

The Grand Speaker was filled with thoughts of the Last time they had ventured into space. They had built massive ships to travel to a nearby star that had been detected with several planets that were suitable for colonization. That had been over 150 years ago. Traveling at sub light speeds it had taken the ships just over 70 years to reach their destination. He reached out and touched their minds with his own and surveyed what was. In such a short time those two planets had become as developed and crowded as the home planet. Now it was time to expand once again. They would expand. They would survive.

It never occurred to him to wonder if other life might be out there. After all, the Alteri had evolved alone and solitary on a desolate ice planet with no atmosphere worth mention. There had never been anyone or anything else alive for them. There was nothing in their experience to suggest there ever would be.

So they moved into space freely without concern never suspecting they might not be alone. Never suspecting the future that awaited them.