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Species

The Hostile

First in The Long Watch (First Contact)

The one contacted species with which no communication has ever been established.

In full

Every mathematical bootstrap has failed; PMK confidence is zero; it is classified an active threat. It drives the multi-front crisis of 2220 — the crisis the Nhál fleet ends without a word of explanation. Most fields on its file end in UNDETERMINED.

Key facts

  • Every mathematical bootstrap has failed; translator confidence is zero.
  • Emerges from a containment failure at Junction 44-F; classified an active threat.
  • Drives the multi-front crisis of 2220.
  • Ends only when the Nhál fleet intervenes — then returns to abeyance.

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