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The Returners

"The returners" is based on the premise that two waves of alien exploration have scattered human ancestor species throughout this neighbourhood of the galaxy in prehistoric times. The history is not focussed on one particular time period with many sections presenting historical information covering centuries.

The first wave of exploration and transfer occurred approximately 1MYA when {race} travelled outward from {star} using ramjets and cross-contaminated many ecologically immature worlds with l-amino and d-sugar based biologies. This Race's existance is mainly known from legends passed on by the second wave races as their archaeological sites were mostly worked over and thus damaged either by the second wave races or human ancestor species "squatting in the ruins"

The second wave occurred between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago when {race}, {race} and {race} primarily and to a lesser extent {race} and {race} picked up these now adapted human species and carried them along to continue service as unfriendly environment workers. These second wave races have mostly disappeared although technologically devolved remnants exist on a few worlds.

During the timeframe covered by this history, the race "Man" from Sol/Terra are the only sapients to have developed faster-than-light interstellar capability on their own. Several of the Man species on other worlds have developed interplanetary capability as has at least one of the other modern non-human Races

Why did they all use "humans" ?
Man as a Race have shown themselves to be surprisingly adaptable, tolerating a far wider range of temperatures, capable of subsisting on a very broad diet and even adapting within a few generations to a broad range of atmospheric conditions provided the oxygen/pressure quotient is not too extreme. This is in marked contrast to most other Races who require full environmental support when one basic element of life falls outside a narrow range:

For a {race}, being exposed to subzero temperatures for even a few seconds will trigger frostbite equivalent harm to the exposed area. Humidity below 45% will quickly cause irreparable harm to the oxygen absorbsion organ (lung equivalent) of {race}.

Only Homo Sapien Terranus seems to have created the concept of anthropomorphic robots or high level AI intelligences

Main sections of the wiki
Astrography - index link to important solar systems and planetary classification definitions

Human ancestor species - summary of source stock effects

Second wave races - prehistoric alien civilisations

Starships - common designs, components etc

Timeline - summary of major regional events (local events are linked to systems)

Politics of Man - summary of nations as distinct from (colonial) governments