Part One


    <strong>Part One</strong>


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    <strong>Shout Into The Void</strong>


    Think of a future Earth, where the long-dreaded nuclear war hade and gone, and the global poption was knocked down to the level of the early neen hundreds, but had fully recovered and was prosperous again, with the Human Race taking their first steps to explore the gxy.


    But when the humans get the inevitable proof that there was indeed other intelligent life, what would happen? And what if these aliens weren''t terribly different from the humans, and what if these aliens were on the brink of war...


    - with a nod to the masters of space opera: J. Michael Straczynski, Larry Niven, David Brin, E.E. (Doc) Smith, Iain M. Banks, and, of course, George Lucas.


    My thanks. And my apologies.


    <em>The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka!, but thats funny</em>


    - Isaac Asimov, Earth scientist and writer, 20th Century Earth


    <em>Of course we wanted to find out about Earther technology - were Arachnians, after all.</em>


    - The First Ambassador, Arachnian scientist,


    politician and philosopher, Arachnia Millennium 2