[ me sweating in not knowing the answer to this question. im gonna make some shit up char, wherever you are, dont judge me.
anyway. lu bixing makes a little noise, moving his hand to his personal device and tapping something on the screen. a 3D map pops up, projected - the eighth galaxy, a conglomeration of many planets, and then zooming out further, the entire interplanetary union system. the eighth sits at the very edge, and there are long lines that connect each galaxy, except for the eighth, which is marked by what is clearly labeled "the heart of the rose" at the very edge, a simple black swirl where it should be connected to the seventh galaxy before it.
this is something he's terribly nerdy about so this is teacher voice time. ]
A little bit of both. The first intergalactic travel occurred millennia ago - what most of the people here seem to know as their current Earth is ancient, to us. We know it as the capital planet of the First Galaxy now, Wolto. [ the helpful map zooms in on wolto and then back out again, projecting a series of golden lines one by one that move through the traditional nine planets of the ancient earth solar system, and then outwards, to the next galaxy, and spreading out from there. ]
From that planet, the Ancient Earth scientists that discovered the concept of warp technology were able to spread outwards, where they encountered all kinds of life forms - we called that the Second Age of Discovery. Ancient Earth was overcrowded, and people took the opportunity to blaze new trails and find new places to sustain life. Humanity and lifeforms like it have since occupied the majority of the livable planets. The lifeforms that were there in the first place assimilated and combined, so the majority of the Eight Galaxies are those who are human, or something close to it.
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anyway. lu bixing makes a little noise, moving his hand to his personal device and tapping something on the screen. a 3D map pops up, projected - the eighth galaxy, a conglomeration of many planets, and then zooming out further, the entire interplanetary union system. the eighth sits at the very edge, and there are long lines that connect each galaxy, except for the eighth, which is marked by what is clearly labeled "the heart of the rose" at the very edge, a simple black swirl where it should be connected to the seventh galaxy before it.
this is something he's terribly nerdy about so this is teacher voice time. ]
A little bit of both. The first intergalactic travel occurred millennia ago - what most of the people here seem to know as their current Earth is ancient, to us. We know it as the capital planet of the First Galaxy now, Wolto. [ the helpful map zooms in on wolto and then back out again, projecting a series of golden lines one by one that move through the traditional nine planets of the ancient earth solar system, and then outwards, to the next galaxy, and spreading out from there. ]
From that planet, the Ancient Earth scientists that discovered the concept of warp technology were able to spread outwards, where they encountered all kinds of life forms - we called that the Second Age of Discovery. Ancient Earth was overcrowded, and people took the opportunity to blaze new trails and find new places to sustain life. Humanity and lifeforms like it have since occupied the majority of the livable planets. The lifeforms that were there in the first place assimilated and combined, so the majority of the Eight Galaxies are those who are human, or something close to it.