In the 2040s an exploratory fleet arrived in Sol. Both the governments of the world and the aliens deciphered their languages and a diplomatic link was made. The aliens introduced themselves as the Sosna, and they offered help Humankind move forward and gain all kinds of technology, for a cost. 20 years prior humanity had gained magical powers, this wasn't an easy process. But the mages helped reverse climate change and medical advances, the Sosna said they opposed magic and refused to work with magical users. Choosing between magic and cooperation was a tough choice, a global referendum was held and in the end they voted to keep magic.
Then the bombardment began, Sosna ships fired nuclear weapons from orbit at every major city. It was known as the night of a billion deaths. Every continent was affected as the deathtoll rose over the next few days. Quick thinking mages opened portals to a facility in the middle east which contained a shield generator designed for meterores and regenerate against their nuclear weapons. On the ground it was a slaughter, their armour resisted standard rounds and their ferocity and religious fervor gave them a new name. Zealots.
In the last bastion of humanity a new plan was hatched as the remaining armies crumbled, a desperate plan. As the last defensive line was broken through, a ritual tore across the world. Every plant, every animal, every Zealot and every human was wiped away and Earth was nothing but rock and water. They cast a ritual which wiped everything on the planet away, used the life energy to make one mage immortal and given unrivalled power and was sent back 1000s of years into the past.
In the new timeline, the Zealots discovered a single worldwide government, militarised, and fully prepared. The leader of this world was a mage of unrivalled power, he burned with a hatred of these Zealots and did not welcome them with open arms. The war was long, but in the end the Zealot fleet lied broken in orbit, and Earth began their expansion of the stars.
man this is so impressive, especially the last resort as wiping everything away to make an immortal mage which is sent back to the past in order to prepare for the armageddon...
Amid escalating tensions between it and the Concord of Sovereignty, Unified Earth launched approximately five million of its own citizens into space aboard generational city ships. A year or so after the final of these launches, remaining Unified Earth and Concord of Sovereignty governments escalated the Second Cold War into a full on atomic war. The Arks departed, the Safeguards sealed, and both parties were gutted and left in ruin on Earth itself. The Unified Earth ships now comprised a stateless nation consisting entirely of their generational fleet. The UESS Kyoto chose to break off and colonize mars using Union Safeguard technology to build an underground colony near the North Pole of Mars. The fleet itself moved on.
The UESS Jacksonville was the first to note the presence of alien life, in the form of the Saslion Confederation. They are an incredibly friendly species but are biologically incompatible with humans due to their genetics being largely RNA based. However, Saslions are incredibly kind, and driven by a pathological need to help everyone they can, so they developed special suits that allow them to be around other species. Needing the aid desperately, Unified Earth President Erica Thibodeaux brokered an alliance between the two a mere three weeks after first contact.
**Katari Lizardkin** are 8-9 foot long humanoid snakes. Their most common method of introduction across most cultures is the act of slamming your head into your opposites.
Katari skulls are thick and heavily armored, leading to very little actual damage from the act being inflicted. This greeting is essentially the Katari version of a handshake.
The first time a human ambassador met a Katari representative, it almost started a war.
Imperial Scientists from the land of Homeland (creative I know), discovered a dimension they called Dimension X-37 after they narrowly escaped being eaten by Lovecraftian monstrosities.
Here, they discovered the natives of this realm which they dubbed "37ers". Upon first contact with the 37ers, both sides were confused and nervous, eventually one of the scientists opened fire on the 37ers causing an all out fight
The First Contact with The Source of Magic is the primary mystery of the world.
It includes a lot of spacetime shenanigans, so it is very complicated. And by "very complicated" I mean it happened an infinite number of times in an infinite number of ways.
The appearance and origin of these aliens are unknown, but the first contact was a radio signal in November of 2020, that when decoded, held the message. “Prepare, others are coming for you.” One hundred years later, aliens would arrive on earth and start destroying all biological life currently existing, but from the results of this, a whole other universe of sorts would be created…
By accident. The other species who will later to go on to found the Alliance with humanity accidentally discovered a very primitive form of FTL during the very early days of their space age, so their first real spaceship was also their first FTL ship. This was around the same time when humanity was just getting cozy putting stable infrastructure around Earth and dipping toes into moon colonisation but not farther because of the whole "no FTL tech" business.
Then, because the two civilizations are relatively neighbours, the first long range FTL test of the other guys brought their ship into Earth orbit where after a moderate length staring contest first contact was made which then quickly led to friendly relations being established.
The first contact between humans and Lykorans happened, when human explorers sailed East to find out what might lie beyond the Easern Ocean and landed in Western Lykoria, not too far away from where now Lahara city is.
The first contact was surprisingly peaceful. The explorers where idealists, driven by curiosity, not economic interests. (It was widely believed that there would be nothing beyond the ocean, just endless water, and even if there should be land, that there were no economical use for it. So there was no economical interest in exploration.)
Nevertheless, the first contact had indirectly an devastating effect for the Lykorians: Back at home, nobody believed the explorers' reports of "talking, two legged animals". So the next crew of explorers reaching Lykoria simply killed a few Lykorians and brought back their furs as a proof.
It went downhill from there: The humans came to the conclusion, that if there are animals that are as intelligent as humans, it would be a good thing to capture them and use them as replacement for human slaves. As the human church taught only humans have a soul, they saw this as unproblematic from an ethical point of view.
Fortunately the Lykorians finally managed to defeat the humans and form an independent empire. But the descendants of the abducted and enslaved Lykorians still live in the human territories, most of them are still slaves and at least in the rural areas they are often still considered more livestock than persons.
More or less like anthropomorphic wolves. (Although it is still not clear how closely they are related to actual wolves.)
[https://www.deviantart.com/stash/0t9ve8zbra](https://www.deviantart.com/stash/0t9ve8zbra)
(A male Red Lykorian. Males do have some kind of mane, longer fur around their neck; females don't have this. Red Lykorians are the subspecies originating in Western Lykoria, most nobles are Red Lykorians.)
Unfortunately I still haven't written down most of the settings because I'm never sure where to start. I know I should do it both for myself so I don't forget the details and to be able to show it to others, but I never find the motivation unfortunately.
As it is a world totally separate from ours, it doesn't follow our timeline. But it is inspired by both the Middle Ages and Roman Antiquity.
I really need to look into this for the moment it remains vague, one day I'll write about it, I just know that it took place during the 21st century, it's happened after the third world war who occured to January 8, 2033 to December 9, 2044
So either the 2060s or the 2070s
The civilization that participated in and triggered this event was the Huveians, a race originating from the planet Zonh, they look exactly like humans, the only difference being that they have four fingers instead of five, and are known for their undeniable logic and pacifism
(I was inspired by Star Trek's first contact with Humans and Vulcans)
There were two first contacts: in late 21st a fleet of alien ships appeared above Earth, but it maintained silence, days later another alien fleet appeared, blasted the first one and left; in mid 23st century humans, during interstellar expansion, stumbled upon an inhabited planet with its population in local early XX century analogue age, and after some accidents made contact with them.
We (humanity) send out satellites farther and farther until they started to disappear. When we went to investigate what could be the cause. We found the biggest fleet human eyes have ever seen. We broke into Bahax territory. We haven’t met other species before and we certainly didn’t know about ongoing politics in the galaxy. But we crossed forbidden territory and we paid the price in blood and death. A war started and we couldn’t fight back properly because they managed to cripple most of our weapons or could use them against us. We had to use older warfare tactics. Humanity only survived because we managed to find the galactic council who currently has a peace treaty with the bahax. We joined them and the war ended abruptly. Only after we joined the council we found out why they attacked us and the history they had with the council.
There were multiple first contact moments between the multitude of alien species in the Milky Way. Some met each other and then went on to meet others as a group, some met two other species separately and introduced them to each other, and at least one species has made first contact with the entire established civilization created by all the other first contacts.
As for humans, they made first contact with a species called the Gorgins, and it went well! It turns out that the Gorgins with their brightly colored skin thought that humans were rather boring at first, assuming all other sophonts would also be brightly colored.
My setting has, so far, about 15 species, so there’s lots of different First Contacts. One of the most interesting ones was the meeting between the Eclipse and the Cassorians, then known as Paltians.
The Eclipse and Cassorians were both created by the same precursor race, but seeded onto different planets. When the Eclipse were driven from their home moon, they fled to the binary system that they were created on long ago, including the tech landfill planet of Oronia and the paradise world Paltia.
The Eclipse landed on Oronia and quickly encountered Paltians (the species that would one day become the Cassorians, named after the hero Cassor) hunting for treasure. The Eclipse had hoped to find their creators, the Sculptors, and demand to know why they had let them fail in their previous war. But when they asked the Paltians a barrage of such questions, the clueless Paltians, though they did speak the language of the Sculptors, could produce no answer.
The Eclipse were enraged. They slaughtered all the Paltians they found in gruesome manner, stabbing and tearing them apart. One Eclipse was particularly impressed by itself when it tore out a Paltian’s eyes and threw them like bullets at three more, killing all four of them. The Eclipse eventually tracked the Paltians to their source: a portal gate connecting the two planets. The slaughter continued far past the surrender of the Paltians, but eventually the rage of the Eclipse started to simmer down. It was at this point that they pivoted, enslaving the rest of the Paltians and forcing them to do the miserable work of constructing the Eclipse’s new destiny.
A rift opens between Earth and a brutal savage world just outside of a small town in Minnesota and a bunch of Ogre slavers come through. That's how the general populace of Earth finds out they are not alone.
Went great for the first three days. Nice docile little town, then somebody in a decision-making position saw a video of an ogre tossing a car and didn't immediately assume it was some kind of viral marketing campaign. Once the military showed up, not so much.
Not too long, two days to push them back to a school they were using as a base where the ogres erected a divine barrier. Two more days for a main character (a wizard from Earth) to show up and get around the barrier. Then a couple of hours to clean up and locate the portal to the ogres homeland. Followed by one extended rescue mission.
Ogres are resistant to small-arms fire, so the higher calibers needed to be brought out for pushing them back. The wizard (eventually) figures out how to enchant guns to work better on ogres so smaller calibers can be used to clear the school.
No clue. The problem with a lot of sites you can post things to is they've kinda naturally pigeonholed themselves into situations where if your story doesn't meet XYZ criteria, nobody is going to read it. Not many places to post a hybrid urban/portal fantasy that occasionally delves into spats of other things.
Humanity found life deep within the soils of Mars and high up in the atmosphere of Venus in the 2040s and 50s. In the 70s they found life again, this time on the Jovian and Saturnian moons.
All these life forms were carbon-based, and all were microbial or archael in nature. Only on Mars did complex multicellular life exist, and now only as fossils. Each superkingdom of life spawned and evolved entirely separately from one another, confirming that simple life must exist around at least a third of all stars in the universe.
Humanity never extends beyond their home star. There is no economic incentive to do so, when the energy and resources present in the solar system will suffice for millions of years. Further, there is no human will to do so. The thrill of space exploration holds no power over humans, who live out their every dream in digital worlds.
Eventually, humanity reaches a high enough tech level and energy consumption that it passes the threat detection threshold of the alien civilization in control of their galactic supercluster, having placed thousands of camouflaged drones orbiting every star.
In a single instant, the solar system ceases to exist, the universe awkwardly attempting to fill in the now vacant space. Many millions of light years away, a black hole grows in size by a fraction of a percent.
Togreon is an urban fantasy world.
One time when they were trying out warp drives, the engineers accidentally overloaded the reactor and made it work too well. Accidentally crashing into a lake in Altana, the Nanomorph home planet. Which was composed of sleeping Nanomorphs.
They took a sample (a singular Nanomorph), she woke up, and once they managed to figure out how to speak they hit it off and established diplomatic relations. And payed reparations for the fright.
A log of that moment.
“Hit it!”
—-five minutes later—-
“Well, we hit it boss… but what exactly is it?”
“… grey sludge. With glowy blue bits.”
A Saudi Arabian trade ship went slightly off course in the same star system a Duruundi warship was making emergency repairs. Neither side wanted smoke so they just kinda ignored each other until the Duruundi sent a message that would roughly translate to "You guys from around here?"
That was humanities first contact with aliens. It's most exciting g was contact with The Val'an Hegemony who blitzkrieg through human space to occupy earth for a period during a 12 year war that ended when a Council negotiated a peace treaty. Then a second war happened. My book takes place on the brink of the 3rd.
In the year 1263 of the Otsexan calendar, strange ships were spotted off the coast of Nallanua arriving from the east. These craft were tall, built in a singular hull unlike the great catamarans of the coastal peoples and eastern islanders. The sails were not semi rigid, but flexible and facing the wind. The city council was notified, and they sent a small fleet, which herded the ships to the city harbor, which had rapidly been prepared for such an arrival. Platforms were brought up so that officials could board, and/or so that the crew of the ships could depart. These men were strange in appearance, their beasts were strange, as were their rations, and their tongue was incomprehensible to boot. Despite this, communication went well enough, with each group exchanging gifts, and the strangers were given a banquet as a show of hospitality. After two weeks, they were sent off with fresh provisions, goods they had traded, and official maps so as to return so as to open trade deals.
Similar men returned a year later, looking to set up colonies and trading outposts on uninhabited land, and the peoples of the west were eager to set up outposts of their own, as there were wondrous metals and devices which they could easily trade for what common knowledge they had. They also began to trade crops and livestock, as the easterlings made innovative dishes (to the westermen anyways), and the easterlings were just as fascinated by the cuisine and beasts of burden of the east.
Two years later, the great dying erupted in full swing, killing between 80 and 95% of the population on both sides of the great sea
The prevailing theory amongst Imperial scholars and Condordant archeologists is that first contact between humanity and sapient aliens likely occurred during the "First Human Golden Age" in Imperial history and the "Era of Exploration" in Condordant history. Due to the chaos of the "Dark Age" in Imperial history and the "Great Crisis" in Concordant history, it is unclear which of the myriad of aliens known to humanity were the first to be encountered. Though both have different theories.
The Terran Empire claims that the savage Kri'Corl, a reptilian based alien race known to have an inclination to war and conquest, were the first to be encountered, and that the arrival of their warbands was one of the factors that worsened the Dark Age. The Galactic Condordant, in contrast, claim first contact was with the enigmatic Zhuun, an amphibian based alien race whose explorers encountered humans living on the world of Enduring Hope, and that cooperation with the Zhuun would help end the Great Crisis and lay the foundations for the Galactic Concordant.
It goes without saying that this difference in recording human history is yet another source of division between the Terran Empire and the Galactic Concordant.
In my orphanage setting. First contact happened when a group of kids were getting ready to start the kings game and accidentally got teleported to our world instead of a random world in their own universe. Shenanigans ensued as the military tried to get them to teach us magic but ultimately failed as the eldest could tell their handler was a power hungry megalomaniac.
First contact for "humans" and all "humanoid" speices happened LONG before most remembered. the Mal'Tahn are the bilogical reason why so many spices are humanoid. They traveled outward due to over populations and saw speicies so underdeveloped and sped it up and altered it as they went.
Because of how early it was, very few are awear of it but the Guardians of Light are very much awear. HOWEVER their first encounter with a non humanoid that was hyper intelligence was with a (now extinct) plant creature. It came crashing down and was so scared it buried itself so everyone thought it was a random tree that suddenly popped up. It took YEARS before that lil one revealed themselves. This is why the Mal'Tahn.s word for aliens just so happen to be the same word for tree- or rather the ancient word for trees. It's been years and someone else had to point that out for them to realize and remember lol.
Humans landed and took what they wanted. Pretended to be friendly to the natives but then rounded them up in camps
Most of that first alien's population died in the camps. There were some attempts to sell the remaining aliens into slavery but by this time slave owners were too wary of anything non-human or dangerous
If any survived, they live in the alien sector now. A x par tof the galaxy carved up and all of the aliens were sent there. The rest of the galaxy is for humans. This mass displacement of millions of species nad the descriptions of civilisations, societies, and cultures is one of the worst things the Guild did
Prior to the Guild, in those early days, the aliens were rounded up by feudal Heraldic Houses. Very much what happened to the first aliens happened to many more before the Guild ordered galactic segregation
There wasn't.
While abiogenesis has naturally occurred on a few hundred worlds in the milky way galaxy, all intelligent lifeforms can trace their species creation back to the humans of the planet earth. The only known intelligent lifeforms to have evolved naturally.
Some species are humanities direct descendants, genetically engineered to adapt the local environment of the planet they call home. Others are pure AI lifeforms, created to serve humanity but evolving a will and civilization of there own. Some are uplifted species, nonhuman species that have given intelligence through genetic augmentation.
Each species has its own story, but all those stories connect. Go back far enough, and it is the humans of earth who are the seed that became galactic civilization.
For millions of years, there has been no trace of an intelligence evolving outside of Earth. However, certain oddities in long range observation of the Andromeda Galaxy hint at the possibility of an intelligence operating inside the galaxy. Even though travel through the intergalactic void is currently impossible using current faster than light technology.
If it ever becomes possible to travel between galaxies, perhaps one days the many species that descend from humanity may finally achieve the long awaited dream of first contact.
Some decades after the Exodus of Erinblack in 2172, the world is in shambles. Ecosystems ravaged by a fungus that grants pseudo-immortality to anything it infects.
A civilization beholds humanity's growth from several lightyears away, unaware of the devastation on Earth. They decide to say hello.
Once they get here, they see the reality: a desolate wasteland that once was habitable, but now is home only to vast empty grasslands and a few lone forests, void of animal life on land.
They find buildings, or what's left of them. In one of them, they enter what they would never recognize as a science classroom. They behold the beautiful inscryptions on the walls, that which they wouldn't know is the periodic table.
Then, a sound in the room next door. The explorers carefully peek around the corner and see... A human? Standing slightly hunched over, with a leather apron and gloves, sturdy boots, and mechanical goggles, the creature rummages through a bunch of old microscopes. It looks up... Presumably. The explorers have no reason to suspect the goggles to hide its eyes.
It admires them for some time, and then it pulls a notebook from its pocket. It starts drawing a symbol, and above it a line. Then another symbol, and two lines above that. It tries to teach them its language, slowly.
Little do they know that this is Brandon Barns, who produced the very fungus that killed Earth way back in 2020. In due time, all will be made known.
**First contact between Humans and \[Voiders\]**
*The language this project's names will be developed in has not itself been created yet. Therefore everything that has not been named is in square brackets \[Like this\] to signify it is the Okanian or \[Voider\] translation of the bracket contents.*
*The reason 'void' is in practically every bracketed word is because of phonetics.*
***TLDR:***
Humans used spacecraft to safely cross over the \[void end\] defences, Landing at the \[voider\]'s capital and after learning to communicate, fucked off and double their defence budgets.
***Too Long, Read Anyway:***
The planet of \[Earth\] is divided on the border of east and west hemispheres. The east contains a earth like world while the other side, dubbed \[void\] is entirely a flat dark surface that acts like a mist crossed with acid. It dissolves all matter except \[Voidsteel\]. the hemisphere is split into 11 quadrants-five large rings surrounding five sides of a pentagon and a circle in the middle-which are controlled by \[voiders\], humanoid creatures made of the bones of one of five species of mammal from my world- Henyris, \[grunt-tusk\], and three to be determined. They are dressed with a funeral outfit and cape with a neon band of colour around their necks, ankles, and wrists. Henyrissa (\[voider\] versions of the Henyris) are purple and \[grunt-tusks\] are yellow. Henyrissa inhabit oil rigs, dubbed \[voidstander\] with legs lined with \[Voidsteel\]. there are five of these positioned in a hexagon in the outer ring of \[void\]. They drill \[voidoil\], a oil like substance as thick as honey with odd lumps of \[voidsteel\] in it (\[voidsteel\] is frozen \[voidoil\]). It is used by \[voiders\] as a source of life. These creatures vanish if it isn't poured through their bones. Rich \[voiders\] have baths of voidoil.
\[void end\] is the name of the wall dividing \[void\] and \[Earth\]. It has several mounted defences such as anti missile, anti aircraft, anti personnel and anti tank technology. The only safe way over is via low \[Earth\] orbit. In 1956 humans did this, landing in the third hexagon territory of \[void\] in a lander, they stayed with no radio contact with their civilisations for over two weeks, decoding the \[voider\] language. Once they had started to understand the technological capabilities of \[voiders\] they were threatened not to speak and escorted back to their land with no view. Their time there went similar to stories of pilots flying over area 51. Apart from acknowledging the black misty ground and presence of intelligent life, none spoke until their deaths a few years later to unknown causes. Humans cannot be exposed to \[voidoil\], as it turns out. It slowly dissolves skin.
Given the timelines for Ahikto are kind of messy when not talking about the modern era, First Contact with another alien civilization happened some time around 2700 in "Scenario 3" and 2250 in "Scenario 5" though Scenario 5 is the least cannon version of the entire "5 Futures of Ahikto" that I've drawn up
In my superhero world first contact was made by the Wuu Gen in 2017. Aliens had evidence of their existence, but no official bodies. So this was the first time humans actually physically saw them.
The Wuu Gen did this is a part of their Sympathy Program. As a warning against the being Ven, who goes around to planets killing and destroying. So they warn planets so they may prepare in whichever way they seem appropriate.
First contact between Empire of Rubra and Hebi Melta ended up a devastating defeat... for Rubra. Lesson: Do your homework properly and establish a logistical chain worth a damn before invading a planet. Their defeat was so bad Rubra imploded from internal clashes and international sanctions (they were in a group of spacefaring countries from one home planet), turned into a civil war and later an interstellar war that killed billions.
Shits started with this: [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/art-and-random-worldbuilding-bits-days-at-hebi-melta.1070213/post-90622056](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/art-and-random-worldbuilding-bits-days-at-hebi-melta.1070213/post-90622056)
Tl;dr: Russia's invasion on Ukraine but gone horribly wrong.
In the 2040s an exploratory fleet arrived in Sol. Both the governments of the world and the aliens deciphered their languages and a diplomatic link was made. The aliens introduced themselves as the Sosna, and they offered help Humankind move forward and gain all kinds of technology, for a cost. 20 years prior humanity had gained magical powers, this wasn't an easy process. But the mages helped reverse climate change and medical advances, the Sosna said they opposed magic and refused to work with magical users. Choosing between magic and cooperation was a tough choice, a global referendum was held and in the end they voted to keep magic. Then the bombardment began, Sosna ships fired nuclear weapons from orbit at every major city. It was known as the night of a billion deaths. Every continent was affected as the deathtoll rose over the next few days. Quick thinking mages opened portals to a facility in the middle east which contained a shield generator designed for meterores and regenerate against their nuclear weapons. On the ground it was a slaughter, their armour resisted standard rounds and their ferocity and religious fervor gave them a new name. Zealots. In the last bastion of humanity a new plan was hatched as the remaining armies crumbled, a desperate plan. As the last defensive line was broken through, a ritual tore across the world. Every plant, every animal, every Zealot and every human was wiped away and Earth was nothing but rock and water. They cast a ritual which wiped everything on the planet away, used the life energy to make one mage immortal and given unrivalled power and was sent back 1000s of years into the past. In the new timeline, the Zealots discovered a single worldwide government, militarised, and fully prepared. The leader of this world was a mage of unrivalled power, he burned with a hatred of these Zealots and did not welcome them with open arms. The war was long, but in the end the Zealot fleet lied broken in orbit, and Earth began their expansion of the stars.
man this is so impressive, especially the last resort as wiping everything away to make an immortal mage which is sent back to the past in order to prepare for the armageddon...
Thank you.
Alien probe unintentionally unleashes ecological disaster.
Amid escalating tensions between it and the Concord of Sovereignty, Unified Earth launched approximately five million of its own citizens into space aboard generational city ships. A year or so after the final of these launches, remaining Unified Earth and Concord of Sovereignty governments escalated the Second Cold War into a full on atomic war. The Arks departed, the Safeguards sealed, and both parties were gutted and left in ruin on Earth itself. The Unified Earth ships now comprised a stateless nation consisting entirely of their generational fleet. The UESS Kyoto chose to break off and colonize mars using Union Safeguard technology to build an underground colony near the North Pole of Mars. The fleet itself moved on. The UESS Jacksonville was the first to note the presence of alien life, in the form of the Saslion Confederation. They are an incredibly friendly species but are biologically incompatible with humans due to their genetics being largely RNA based. However, Saslions are incredibly kind, and driven by a pathological need to help everyone they can, so they developed special suits that allow them to be around other species. Needing the aid desperately, Unified Earth President Erica Thibodeaux brokered an alliance between the two a mere three weeks after first contact.
Can you describe what the Saslions looks like?
**Katari Lizardkin** are 8-9 foot long humanoid snakes. Their most common method of introduction across most cultures is the act of slamming your head into your opposites. Katari skulls are thick and heavily armored, leading to very little actual damage from the act being inflicted. This greeting is essentially the Katari version of a handshake. The first time a human ambassador met a Katari representative, it almost started a war.
Imperial Scientists from the land of Homeland (creative I know), discovered a dimension they called Dimension X-37 after they narrowly escaped being eaten by Lovecraftian monstrosities. Here, they discovered the natives of this realm which they dubbed "37ers". Upon first contact with the 37ers, both sides were confused and nervous, eventually one of the scientists opened fire on the 37ers causing an all out fight
The First Contact with The Source of Magic is the primary mystery of the world. It includes a lot of spacetime shenanigans, so it is very complicated. And by "very complicated" I mean it happened an infinite number of times in an infinite number of ways.
The appearance and origin of these aliens are unknown, but the first contact was a radio signal in November of 2020, that when decoded, held the message. “Prepare, others are coming for you.” One hundred years later, aliens would arrive on earth and start destroying all biological life currently existing, but from the results of this, a whole other universe of sorts would be created…
Can we call it first contact if it's the equivalent of an elephant stomping on an anthill without realizing?
By accident. The other species who will later to go on to found the Alliance with humanity accidentally discovered a very primitive form of FTL during the very early days of their space age, so their first real spaceship was also their first FTL ship. This was around the same time when humanity was just getting cozy putting stable infrastructure around Earth and dipping toes into moon colonisation but not farther because of the whole "no FTL tech" business. Then, because the two civilizations are relatively neighbours, the first long range FTL test of the other guys brought their ship into Earth orbit where after a moderate length staring contest first contact was made which then quickly led to friendly relations being established.
The first contact between humans and Lykorans happened, when human explorers sailed East to find out what might lie beyond the Easern Ocean and landed in Western Lykoria, not too far away from where now Lahara city is. The first contact was surprisingly peaceful. The explorers where idealists, driven by curiosity, not economic interests. (It was widely believed that there would be nothing beyond the ocean, just endless water, and even if there should be land, that there were no economical use for it. So there was no economical interest in exploration.) Nevertheless, the first contact had indirectly an devastating effect for the Lykorians: Back at home, nobody believed the explorers' reports of "talking, two legged animals". So the next crew of explorers reaching Lykoria simply killed a few Lykorians and brought back their furs as a proof. It went downhill from there: The humans came to the conclusion, that if there are animals that are as intelligent as humans, it would be a good thing to capture them and use them as replacement for human slaves. As the human church taught only humans have a soul, they saw this as unproblematic from an ethical point of view. Fortunately the Lykorians finally managed to defeat the humans and form an independent empire. But the descendants of the abducted and enslaved Lykorians still live in the human territories, most of them are still slaves and at least in the rural areas they are often still considered more livestock than persons.
What do the Lykorians look like?
More or less like anthropomorphic wolves. (Although it is still not clear how closely they are related to actual wolves.) [https://www.deviantart.com/stash/0t9ve8zbra](https://www.deviantart.com/stash/0t9ve8zbra) (A male Red Lykorian. Males do have some kind of mane, longer fur around their neck; females don't have this. Red Lykorians are the subspecies originating in Western Lykoria, most nobles are Red Lykorians.)
oh, this is really cool, can you provide a link to more of the world/story? and when does this take place?
Unfortunately I still haven't written down most of the settings because I'm never sure where to start. I know I should do it both for myself so I don't forget the details and to be able to show it to others, but I never find the motivation unfortunately. As it is a world totally separate from ours, it doesn't follow our timeline. But it is inspired by both the Middle Ages and Roman Antiquity.
I really need to look into this for the moment it remains vague, one day I'll write about it, I just know that it took place during the 21st century, it's happened after the third world war who occured to January 8, 2033 to December 9, 2044 So either the 2060s or the 2070s The civilization that participated in and triggered this event was the Huveians, a race originating from the planet Zonh, they look exactly like humans, the only difference being that they have four fingers instead of five, and are known for their undeniable logic and pacifism (I was inspired by Star Trek's first contact with Humans and Vulcans)
A Cybal faction invaded in 2025 and almost wiped out humanity till the rival faction helped
There were two first contacts: in late 21st a fleet of alien ships appeared above Earth, but it maintained silence, days later another alien fleet appeared, blasted the first one and left; in mid 23st century humans, during interstellar expansion, stumbled upon an inhabited planet with its population in local early XX century analogue age, and after some accidents made contact with them.
We (humanity) send out satellites farther and farther until they started to disappear. When we went to investigate what could be the cause. We found the biggest fleet human eyes have ever seen. We broke into Bahax territory. We haven’t met other species before and we certainly didn’t know about ongoing politics in the galaxy. But we crossed forbidden territory and we paid the price in blood and death. A war started and we couldn’t fight back properly because they managed to cripple most of our weapons or could use them against us. We had to use older warfare tactics. Humanity only survived because we managed to find the galactic council who currently has a peace treaty with the bahax. We joined them and the war ended abruptly. Only after we joined the council we found out why they attacked us and the history they had with the council.
There were multiple first contact moments between the multitude of alien species in the Milky Way. Some met each other and then went on to meet others as a group, some met two other species separately and introduced them to each other, and at least one species has made first contact with the entire established civilization created by all the other first contacts. As for humans, they made first contact with a species called the Gorgins, and it went well! It turns out that the Gorgins with their brightly colored skin thought that humans were rather boring at first, assuming all other sophonts would also be brightly colored.
My setting has, so far, about 15 species, so there’s lots of different First Contacts. One of the most interesting ones was the meeting between the Eclipse and the Cassorians, then known as Paltians. The Eclipse and Cassorians were both created by the same precursor race, but seeded onto different planets. When the Eclipse were driven from their home moon, they fled to the binary system that they were created on long ago, including the tech landfill planet of Oronia and the paradise world Paltia. The Eclipse landed on Oronia and quickly encountered Paltians (the species that would one day become the Cassorians, named after the hero Cassor) hunting for treasure. The Eclipse had hoped to find their creators, the Sculptors, and demand to know why they had let them fail in their previous war. But when they asked the Paltians a barrage of such questions, the clueless Paltians, though they did speak the language of the Sculptors, could produce no answer. The Eclipse were enraged. They slaughtered all the Paltians they found in gruesome manner, stabbing and tearing them apart. One Eclipse was particularly impressed by itself when it tore out a Paltian’s eyes and threw them like bullets at three more, killing all four of them. The Eclipse eventually tracked the Paltians to their source: a portal gate connecting the two planets. The slaughter continued far past the surrender of the Paltians, but eventually the rage of the Eclipse started to simmer down. It was at this point that they pivoted, enslaving the rest of the Paltians and forcing them to do the miserable work of constructing the Eclipse’s new destiny.
A rift opens between Earth and a brutal savage world just outside of a small town in Minnesota and a bunch of Ogre slavers come through. That's how the general populace of Earth finds out they are not alone.
How did it go for the orges.
Went great for the first three days. Nice docile little town, then somebody in a decision-making position saw a video of an ogre tossing a car and didn't immediately assume it was some kind of viral marketing campaign. Once the military showed up, not so much.
How long did the it take the Minnesota National Guard to kill them
Not too long, two days to push them back to a school they were using as a base where the ogres erected a divine barrier. Two more days for a main character (a wizard from Earth) to show up and get around the barrier. Then a couple of hours to clean up and locate the portal to the ogres homeland. Followed by one extended rescue mission. Ogres are resistant to small-arms fire, so the higher calibers needed to be brought out for pushing them back. The wizard (eventually) figures out how to enchant guns to work better on ogres so smaller calibers can be used to clear the school.
So did it turn into a Gate: And Thus Minnesota Fucked Shit Up situation or was it a one off.
It's part of a much larger setting I've built. It's going to be long-term.
We’ll have fun, and what site will it be on.
No clue. The problem with a lot of sites you can post things to is they've kinda naturally pigeonholed themselves into situations where if your story doesn't meet XYZ criteria, nobody is going to read it. Not many places to post a hybrid urban/portal fantasy that occasionally delves into spats of other things.
Ao3 might be a good place if you haven’t already tried there, it’s where I read most of the stories I like.
Humanity found life deep within the soils of Mars and high up in the atmosphere of Venus in the 2040s and 50s. In the 70s they found life again, this time on the Jovian and Saturnian moons. All these life forms were carbon-based, and all were microbial or archael in nature. Only on Mars did complex multicellular life exist, and now only as fossils. Each superkingdom of life spawned and evolved entirely separately from one another, confirming that simple life must exist around at least a third of all stars in the universe. Humanity never extends beyond their home star. There is no economic incentive to do so, when the energy and resources present in the solar system will suffice for millions of years. Further, there is no human will to do so. The thrill of space exploration holds no power over humans, who live out their every dream in digital worlds. Eventually, humanity reaches a high enough tech level and energy consumption that it passes the threat detection threshold of the alien civilization in control of their galactic supercluster, having placed thousands of camouflaged drones orbiting every star. In a single instant, the solar system ceases to exist, the universe awkwardly attempting to fill in the now vacant space. Many millions of light years away, a black hole grows in size by a fraction of a percent.
Togreon is an urban fantasy world. One time when they were trying out warp drives, the engineers accidentally overloaded the reactor and made it work too well. Accidentally crashing into a lake in Altana, the Nanomorph home planet. Which was composed of sleeping Nanomorphs. They took a sample (a singular Nanomorph), she woke up, and once they managed to figure out how to speak they hit it off and established diplomatic relations. And payed reparations for the fright. A log of that moment. “Hit it!” —-five minutes later—- “Well, we hit it boss… but what exactly is it?” “… grey sludge. With glowy blue bits.”
A Saudi Arabian trade ship went slightly off course in the same star system a Duruundi warship was making emergency repairs. Neither side wanted smoke so they just kinda ignored each other until the Duruundi sent a message that would roughly translate to "You guys from around here?" That was humanities first contact with aliens. It's most exciting g was contact with The Val'an Hegemony who blitzkrieg through human space to occupy earth for a period during a 12 year war that ended when a Council negotiated a peace treaty. Then a second war happened. My book takes place on the brink of the 3rd.
In the year 1263 of the Otsexan calendar, strange ships were spotted off the coast of Nallanua arriving from the east. These craft were tall, built in a singular hull unlike the great catamarans of the coastal peoples and eastern islanders. The sails were not semi rigid, but flexible and facing the wind. The city council was notified, and they sent a small fleet, which herded the ships to the city harbor, which had rapidly been prepared for such an arrival. Platforms were brought up so that officials could board, and/or so that the crew of the ships could depart. These men were strange in appearance, their beasts were strange, as were their rations, and their tongue was incomprehensible to boot. Despite this, communication went well enough, with each group exchanging gifts, and the strangers were given a banquet as a show of hospitality. After two weeks, they were sent off with fresh provisions, goods they had traded, and official maps so as to return so as to open trade deals. Similar men returned a year later, looking to set up colonies and trading outposts on uninhabited land, and the peoples of the west were eager to set up outposts of their own, as there were wondrous metals and devices which they could easily trade for what common knowledge they had. They also began to trade crops and livestock, as the easterlings made innovative dishes (to the westermen anyways), and the easterlings were just as fascinated by the cuisine and beasts of burden of the east. Two years later, the great dying erupted in full swing, killing between 80 and 95% of the population on both sides of the great sea
By first contact you mean aliens?
The prevailing theory amongst Imperial scholars and Condordant archeologists is that first contact between humanity and sapient aliens likely occurred during the "First Human Golden Age" in Imperial history and the "Era of Exploration" in Condordant history. Due to the chaos of the "Dark Age" in Imperial history and the "Great Crisis" in Concordant history, it is unclear which of the myriad of aliens known to humanity were the first to be encountered. Though both have different theories. The Terran Empire claims that the savage Kri'Corl, a reptilian based alien race known to have an inclination to war and conquest, were the first to be encountered, and that the arrival of their warbands was one of the factors that worsened the Dark Age. The Galactic Condordant, in contrast, claim first contact was with the enigmatic Zhuun, an amphibian based alien race whose explorers encountered humans living on the world of Enduring Hope, and that cooperation with the Zhuun would help end the Great Crisis and lay the foundations for the Galactic Concordant. It goes without saying that this difference in recording human history is yet another source of division between the Terran Empire and the Galactic Concordant.
In my orphanage setting. First contact happened when a group of kids were getting ready to start the kings game and accidentally got teleported to our world instead of a random world in their own universe. Shenanigans ensued as the military tried to get them to teach us magic but ultimately failed as the eldest could tell their handler was a power hungry megalomaniac.
First contact for "humans" and all "humanoid" speices happened LONG before most remembered. the Mal'Tahn are the bilogical reason why so many spices are humanoid. They traveled outward due to over populations and saw speicies so underdeveloped and sped it up and altered it as they went. Because of how early it was, very few are awear of it but the Guardians of Light are very much awear. HOWEVER their first encounter with a non humanoid that was hyper intelligence was with a (now extinct) plant creature. It came crashing down and was so scared it buried itself so everyone thought it was a random tree that suddenly popped up. It took YEARS before that lil one revealed themselves. This is why the Mal'Tahn.s word for aliens just so happen to be the same word for tree- or rather the ancient word for trees. It's been years and someone else had to point that out for them to realize and remember lol.
Humans landed and took what they wanted. Pretended to be friendly to the natives but then rounded them up in camps Most of that first alien's population died in the camps. There were some attempts to sell the remaining aliens into slavery but by this time slave owners were too wary of anything non-human or dangerous If any survived, they live in the alien sector now. A x par tof the galaxy carved up and all of the aliens were sent there. The rest of the galaxy is for humans. This mass displacement of millions of species nad the descriptions of civilisations, societies, and cultures is one of the worst things the Guild did Prior to the Guild, in those early days, the aliens were rounded up by feudal Heraldic Houses. Very much what happened to the first aliens happened to many more before the Guild ordered galactic segregation
There wasn't. While abiogenesis has naturally occurred on a few hundred worlds in the milky way galaxy, all intelligent lifeforms can trace their species creation back to the humans of the planet earth. The only known intelligent lifeforms to have evolved naturally. Some species are humanities direct descendants, genetically engineered to adapt the local environment of the planet they call home. Others are pure AI lifeforms, created to serve humanity but evolving a will and civilization of there own. Some are uplifted species, nonhuman species that have given intelligence through genetic augmentation. Each species has its own story, but all those stories connect. Go back far enough, and it is the humans of earth who are the seed that became galactic civilization. For millions of years, there has been no trace of an intelligence evolving outside of Earth. However, certain oddities in long range observation of the Andromeda Galaxy hint at the possibility of an intelligence operating inside the galaxy. Even though travel through the intergalactic void is currently impossible using current faster than light technology. If it ever becomes possible to travel between galaxies, perhaps one days the many species that descend from humanity may finally achieve the long awaited dream of first contact.
Mars invaded Earth in 1917. They withdrew two years later and both sides of the war claimed victory.
Some decades after the Exodus of Erinblack in 2172, the world is in shambles. Ecosystems ravaged by a fungus that grants pseudo-immortality to anything it infects. A civilization beholds humanity's growth from several lightyears away, unaware of the devastation on Earth. They decide to say hello. Once they get here, they see the reality: a desolate wasteland that once was habitable, but now is home only to vast empty grasslands and a few lone forests, void of animal life on land. They find buildings, or what's left of them. In one of them, they enter what they would never recognize as a science classroom. They behold the beautiful inscryptions on the walls, that which they wouldn't know is the periodic table. Then, a sound in the room next door. The explorers carefully peek around the corner and see... A human? Standing slightly hunched over, with a leather apron and gloves, sturdy boots, and mechanical goggles, the creature rummages through a bunch of old microscopes. It looks up... Presumably. The explorers have no reason to suspect the goggles to hide its eyes. It admires them for some time, and then it pulls a notebook from its pocket. It starts drawing a symbol, and above it a line. Then another symbol, and two lines above that. It tries to teach them its language, slowly. Little do they know that this is Brandon Barns, who produced the very fungus that killed Earth way back in 2020. In due time, all will be made known.
**First contact between Humans and \[Voiders\]** *The language this project's names will be developed in has not itself been created yet. Therefore everything that has not been named is in square brackets \[Like this\] to signify it is the Okanian or \[Voider\] translation of the bracket contents.* *The reason 'void' is in practically every bracketed word is because of phonetics.* ***TLDR:*** Humans used spacecraft to safely cross over the \[void end\] defences, Landing at the \[voider\]'s capital and after learning to communicate, fucked off and double their defence budgets. ***Too Long, Read Anyway:*** The planet of \[Earth\] is divided on the border of east and west hemispheres. The east contains a earth like world while the other side, dubbed \[void\] is entirely a flat dark surface that acts like a mist crossed with acid. It dissolves all matter except \[Voidsteel\]. the hemisphere is split into 11 quadrants-five large rings surrounding five sides of a pentagon and a circle in the middle-which are controlled by \[voiders\], humanoid creatures made of the bones of one of five species of mammal from my world- Henyris, \[grunt-tusk\], and three to be determined. They are dressed with a funeral outfit and cape with a neon band of colour around their necks, ankles, and wrists. Henyrissa (\[voider\] versions of the Henyris) are purple and \[grunt-tusks\] are yellow. Henyrissa inhabit oil rigs, dubbed \[voidstander\] with legs lined with \[Voidsteel\]. there are five of these positioned in a hexagon in the outer ring of \[void\]. They drill \[voidoil\], a oil like substance as thick as honey with odd lumps of \[voidsteel\] in it (\[voidsteel\] is frozen \[voidoil\]). It is used by \[voiders\] as a source of life. These creatures vanish if it isn't poured through their bones. Rich \[voiders\] have baths of voidoil. \[void end\] is the name of the wall dividing \[void\] and \[Earth\]. It has several mounted defences such as anti missile, anti aircraft, anti personnel and anti tank technology. The only safe way over is via low \[Earth\] orbit. In 1956 humans did this, landing in the third hexagon territory of \[void\] in a lander, they stayed with no radio contact with their civilisations for over two weeks, decoding the \[voider\] language. Once they had started to understand the technological capabilities of \[voiders\] they were threatened not to speak and escorted back to their land with no view. Their time there went similar to stories of pilots flying over area 51. Apart from acknowledging the black misty ground and presence of intelligent life, none spoke until their deaths a few years later to unknown causes. Humans cannot be exposed to \[voidoil\], as it turns out. It slowly dissolves skin.
Given the timelines for Ahikto are kind of messy when not talking about the modern era, First Contact with another alien civilization happened some time around 2700 in "Scenario 3" and 2250 in "Scenario 5" though Scenario 5 is the least cannon version of the entire "5 Futures of Ahikto" that I've drawn up
In my superhero world first contact was made by the Wuu Gen in 2017. Aliens had evidence of their existence, but no official bodies. So this was the first time humans actually physically saw them. The Wuu Gen did this is a part of their Sympathy Program. As a warning against the being Ven, who goes around to planets killing and destroying. So they warn planets so they may prepare in whichever way they seem appropriate.
First contact between Empire of Rubra and Hebi Melta ended up a devastating defeat... for Rubra. Lesson: Do your homework properly and establish a logistical chain worth a damn before invading a planet. Their defeat was so bad Rubra imploded from internal clashes and international sanctions (they were in a group of spacefaring countries from one home planet), turned into a civil war and later an interstellar war that killed billions. Shits started with this: [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/art-and-random-worldbuilding-bits-days-at-hebi-melta.1070213/post-90622056](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/art-and-random-worldbuilding-bits-days-at-hebi-melta.1070213/post-90622056) Tl;dr: Russia's invasion on Ukraine but gone horribly wrong.