Origins
In the beginning, were the Divine. Well, that would be their take on the story. In the thirty odd systems the Divine spontaneously and dramatically manifested in exactly 66 years ago, then populated and influenced - in other terms, invaded - there existed flourishing, advanced and interlinked civilisations of bipedal creatures calling themselves humans . Native to a planet of this galactic sector they had, some eight centuries ago and after roughly a million years of evolution, begun to explore their own solar system. Roughly four centuries after that, they accidentally figured out how to jump spaceships between the stars, and had spread out among them. Amongst their many reasons for doing so was an existential quest for other sentient life in the Universe. Bet they regret that particular impulse now... No-one knows where the Divine came from, and definitely not why, but they brought four things with them to every solar system they colonised. To...