Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

History
Near the center of a great spiral galaxy, where stars
are much closer together than Earth's sun and its
neighbors, a Human race developed. They were not
identical to the Humans of Earth, but they were not
very different, either. When these Humans
discovered that waves of sub-space pi-tachyon
particles could cross interstellar space faster than
light, they realized they had found a link to the
stars. A radio message that would have taken years
to travel between stars could be sent with subspace
communicators in months or even weeks. The
Humans started broadcasting news of themselves to
the neighboring stars, and soon found they weren't
alone.
The Humans made contact with an inventive race of
insect-like creatures called Vrusk, who had
developed limited space travel decades earlier. One
of the Vrusks' mining colonies had already contacted
another race, the shape-changing Dralasites. The
two races had been exchanging information for
several years. The Vrusk and Dralasites were
pleased to learn of another race. They sent a wealth
of scientific information to the Humans. Using this
new knowledge, the industrious Humans quickly
developed interstellar spaceships.
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The three races met in a large area of space known
as the Frontier. There they also discovered the
Yazirians, a race of tall, maned humanoids. Soon
settled, worlds in the Frontier became melting pots
for the four races, with dazzling mixtures of
architecture and alien cultures.
To supply the needs of these worlds, the first
interstellar company, the Pan-Galactic Corporation,
was formed. It developed interests everywhere,
from scientific research to farming to spaceship
building. PGC even created its own language, Pan-
Galactic, which soon became the most common
language of all races on Frontier worlds. Many large
companies which started later were modeled on
PGC, but none approach the size or power of the
Pan-Galactic Corporation.
Then the Sathar appeared. No one knows where
they came from or why. They attacked and
destroyed lonely systems on the edges of explored
space, moving slowly inward. Survivors described
Sathars as wormlike creatures 3 to 4 meters long.
That was all that was known about them, because
they would rather kill themselves than be captured.
As the danger increased, the Humans, Dralasites,
Vrusk and Yazirians formed the United Planetary
Federation (UPF) to defend their worlds. The
mysterious Sathar were forced back, but before long
they returned in a more sinister form.
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