Draft #43 - The Creation of the Alliance
A long, long time ago - quite a bit before the Vokkrus were even thinking of space travel - the Founders created the Alliance.
It had started as a dare.
The V'srk just started to explore space. The Anlam, along with the help of the Torra, had long since started traveling the star-speckled reaches above their planet, and with their assistance, the V'srk could get their own rockets and ships up to par. The three species had found the Wessuro stranded on a meteor and decided to help them, too.
The Anlam and Torra had boasted they could find more species than the other two, and the V'srk had claimed they would find even more than the Anlam and Torra combined. The Wessuro had found their bickering amusing and had decided to host the competition. They had set up an outpost on one of their rocky meteors and told the three species to return with new people in five years' time.
The two competing species returned with other people - those who have been living on their planets with nary a thought of space travel and those who were just starting to launch themselves into it - and they decided that they would be allies.
"What is the point of knowing that each other exists if we do not communicate?" the Anlam had said. The others had agreed. The four Founders were known, then, as they had brought the first species of the Alliance together and have since expanded their reaches into other systems and galaxies, looking for those who wish to join.
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The Anlam was a deft-handed species known for its advances in technology. The Vokkrus were advanced in their own right, but after meeting with the Anlam and consolidating their knowledge, they had really expanded to the levels they were at today.
The Torra was an artificial intelligence hivemind created by the Anlam. There were many debates about the validity of its sapience, none of which were spoken near it. Personally, Rulshkka believed that they were sentient. After all, it had feelings and thoughts.
His eyes slid over to his companion. Besides, he thought, he wasn't one to determine sentience.
The Anlam had boasted they could create Spirits from nothing but cogs and bolts. They hadn't succeeded, as was obvious, but they had created something. The Torra was a robotic race that cohabited with the Anlam. They were independent of their creators but tended to stay close to one another. Rarely could someone find an Anlam without a Torra nearby.
The leader of the Anlam was an individual named Heth. Tall in his own right, Rulshkka was dwarfed by the long-limbed being. They were arrogant and boastful but incredibly intelligent. He supposed that one had to be in order to be the best of an already insanely intelligent species. The Anlam had short, stubby wings that were once used for flight but had since shrunk in their quest for knowledge. There had been little use for flight when they dedicated their time to learning.
They were usually gray in color. Rulshkka had heard the others joke that they had once been brightly colored, but since their studies had taken them indoors and away from their sun, all their color had washed away. He was unsure about the plausibility of that one. Their limbs were stick-thin, but they moved with the fluidity and grace of the most talented of dancers.
As Heth stepped forward, the Orb shimmered to life. It projected an image of Heth far above it, into the emptiness of the domed ceiling. It was easily seen throughout the room, and Rulshkka heard Kohgrash make a noise of surprise.
"His mouth," Kohgrash bemoaned quietly. Rulshkka gave him a look. He was suddenly glad that he hadn't added English to the translators, yet. That was rude to say!
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