[i]January 27th, 6521[/i]

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A student studying astronomy in the city of Moriga, Midoria 1, scanned the sky through his telescope, observing the flight paths of various celestial objects in this new, strange galaxy. The movements of objects in the Milky Way had long ago been plotted, and the gravitational wells associated with most large objects' flight patterns had been identified. Andromeda, however, was still a new place, and the Midorians were encountering totally new phenomena here that seemed totally... [i]alien[/i].

The student scribbled on a notepad as he observed, drawing patterns of theorized flight trajectories for objects in a certain portion of space, as a homework assignment from his professor.

An hour into his observations, he noticed a strange object in his telescope - too perfect to be natural - and, as soon as he noticed it, a series of dark blobs in the sky flew together and blocked the view. These blobs had been appearing for some time - usually when a person died. But they never spent more than a few seconds. These, however, were not moving, as if they were intentionally obstructing the view of the strange object. He felt the urge to forget whatever it was that he had seen.
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The Midorian post-humans in orbit considered themselves to be the shepherds of humanity. Protecting it, allowing it to live out its existence on the mockup of old Earth they had created. Sometimes this meant they had to protect the humans on the surface from themselves - erasing ideas, replacing them with others. Anything to keep them from venturing into space, which had ruined their previous galaxy, in their eyes. It was a long, thankless job, but the lives of those on the surface had to be maintained. Humanity was not to enter space during its natural lifetime.

Something strange recently came up, though. An object observed by hundreds on the surface, much to the post-humans' annoyance. A large mechanical device, suggesting that travel through the stars is a possibility. Of course, the sight of such a thing must not be permitted, as it risks the humans having an explosion of uncontrollable will to explore space. Their blinder drones had been extremely busy maintaining the view of space being an empty place, full of danger, recently. A small increase in production of blinders had been warranted, with the sighting of this new object, with standing orders to obstruct the view of the object.

Of the billions of minds together in the stars, there was not one dissenting voice, suggesting that this object may be a threat to their lifestyle. But none wished it gone - the thought didn't even cross their minds that it could be removed. So they continued simply hiding the larger world from their flock as they had always done.

In preparation for first contact with outside forces, though, they significantly stepped up production of mining devices and communications devices (operating via radio). They felt that they should have an offer of a trade deal, or a gift for the object, should it come towards them. Keeping their flock in the dark about such an encounter would require hundreds of thousands of blinders, though, so such contact would be a great annoyance until they could convince it to stay far away.
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