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===First Contact=== The exact date that the Travelers first met each other is now lost to history; the Orions believe their encounter with the Dubhei was the earliest, but studies of Antaran military records indicate that the Antarans may actually have found and killed at least two Traveler groups many years before. Most records from this early time period have been lost, and so it may never be certain when the Travelers were reunited. Regardless of historical inaccuracies, the relative proximity of seven of the original Travelers led to a broad reunion over the course of a century of exploration somewhere around 1600 GC. The legends of the reunion of the Travelers were many, all epic tales of a glorious first contact and the incredulity and joy of finding each other after so many centuries apart. As is often the case, the truth was nothing like the rosy picture painted by mythology. Fifteen centuries of separate evolutionary, cultural and social development had rendered the Travelers completely unrecognizable to each other. It took over a century for researchers to gather enough data from linguistic similarities and historical records to realize that they all were descended from the original Travelers who had left Center One. With the confirmation of this discovery, the progeny of Center One felt that they were the ones destined to shape the galaxy’s future. As they met and related old tales and exchanged ideas, they began calling themselves “Elder Civilizations,” for none of them had found any evidence of anyone above and beyond them. None save the Antarans, at least... but they held their secrets to themselves, for even with the joy of reunion, the meetings between Elder Civilizations were not always friendly affairs. Centuries of separation had neutralized the once heterogeneous nature of Center One’s civilization. Now, the different Tribes viewed each other with a little more suspicion, a little more unease than before. Questions hung unspoken in their meeting halls: Who was the stronger? Who had more technology? Who had better worlds? Who was a threat? Their differences became food for suspicion, and mutual coexistence became a more and more distant concept with each passing cycle. ====Historical notes==== The seven tribes that occupied a significant portion of the lower spiral arm of the galaxy were the Orions, the Antarans, the Alioth, the Meissans, the Dubhei, the Mintakans, and the Saiph. The Shaulas and the Bellatricians had indeed been killed or assimilated by the Antarans during their expansions many years earlier. Only three other Traveler tribes survived the exodus from Center One: the Polarids, the Denebi, and the Tarazedi. The Polarids developed an empire very quickly on another edge of the galactic core, and would soon encounter the Mizara. The Denebi and the Tarazedi ended up on the opposite side of the galaxy. Their story will be told another day...
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