TNN, the Terran News network, is proud to announce, for the first time, that the Galactic Academy of Sciences has launched an ambitious programme to attempt to find signs of life on other galaxies. Called the “Search for Extragalactic Intelligence”, or SEGI for short, it will attempt to passively and actively contact civilisations from other galaxies. An artificial intelligence array composed of supercomputers linked among the 500,000 most advanced planets, will execute a search pattern to examine quantum hologravito-graphic geometries, both dynamic and static, in seven dimensions, for signs of intelligence. In addition, a focused hyperphotonic pulse array will be used to project signals indicating our presence. This operation was the subject of much debate for the past 1000 standard galactic revolutions (SGRs). Ultimately, the benefits were deemed to outweigh the risks. The sense of being the lone galaxy teeming with life, in a sea of similar-looking galaxies, is insupportable. Are we really that alone in the universe? That is the question that SEGI is designed to answer.

Of particular interest to Terrans, Terra has been chosen to be site of one of the probe arrays. Our location at the edge of the galaxy was one factor in that decision. The other factor was a consideration of the fact that Terra is the most recent addition (and perhaps one of the last) to the Galactic Unity. Recognition of Terra was thought to be an appropriate celebratory gesture, honouring the fact that Terra had been searching for extraterranain life, so persistently, for so many SG revolutions. Our SETI programme, once the object of serious discussion, then after thousands of Terran years, ridicule, provides an obvious analogue to SEGI. Ultimately, SETI proved to be useless, because Galactic Protocol actually determined the timing of Contact. But SETI was nevertheless useful in generating discussion, and we now understand, in retrospect, that it was an essential aspect of Terran readiness for Contact.

Here is some background information:

Since our galaxy was deemed to be 90% united 100,000 SGRs ago, the question arose in earnest: “Are we alone?” The process of our galactic unification was made possible by subspace jumping, following the paths of subtle yet powerful plasma and hyperphotonic arcs that link stellar systems. But since no such plasma arcs have been detected between galaxies, we have been unable to travel beyond the confines of our galaxy.

We know that there are trillions of other galaxies, and the question stares us in the face: why have we not been contacted by superior races that must exist on other galaxies? Some have proposed that since we have not been contacted, we must be the most advanced race in the immediate universe. Others have countered that such an attitude is arrogant in the extreme, equivalent to the primitive notions held by pre-jump planetary societies, that their world is the only one with life. But if we are not alone, why, then, have we not made contact?

Scientists have asked whether the technological problem is simply insurmountable, but philosophers of science countered that no limit has ever been reached: what can be imagined eventually comes to pass. Certified telepaths concur that they have not received any messages from beyond the galaxy. The issue would be complex enough if it were not for persistent reports of Unidentified Jumping Objects.

The giggle factor remains strong whenever this subject is brought up, and TNN takes pains to assure listeners that we are not promoting the idea that we are actually being visited by extragalactic visitors. The evidence for such visitors is simply not there, despite at least ten million documented credible reports of UJOs, over the past 10,000 SGRs. Something is jumping around between star systems, playing cat and mouse with our star ships…that much appears to be the case.

To assume that those “somethings” are extragalactic visitors is simply too far-fetched an idea for reasonable entities to accept. Several theories have been put forth to explain the sightings, but most fail to account for the annoying fact that many sightings have been recorded on interstellar graviradar.

Most scientists, at least the ones who have bothered to investigate, agree that the sightings can be explained as dynamic semi-coherent quantum fields that break loose from the gravitational matrix, take on temporary matter-status, and then revert back to their natural quantum state. The problem of how and why this might happen remains to be solved. Such a phenomenon has never been replicated in a laboratory setting. But nobody is willing to tackle the problem, because even to request the required resources to undertake a serious research programme might jeopardize careers, through possible association with those who insist that we are being visited by secretive extragalactians, some perhaps even malevolent, and intent upon exploiting our galaxy.

The issue of so-called “abductions” is another wrinkle that muddies the waters. Persistent reports of extragalactic abductions plague psychologists, who fail to arrive at an explanation that accounts for a significant fraction of those reports. There are a wide variety of entities reporting abduction, both humanoid and other. Their reports are similar, and apart from some easily explainable ones, they defy explanation. The consensus agreement is that the reports cannot actually be real, even if they are unexplainable, because they make no sense whatsoever. If they are related to the UJOs, then resonance with mental quantum holograms might explain them, but, like UJOs themselves, nobody has been able to test that theory, or account for the bizarre nature of the narratives that result from the experience. Scientists from sexual species such as the humanoid have conjectured that repressed orgasmic impulses somehow blend resonantly with the detached quantum fields purported to be behind the UJOs. This might explain the sexualized nature of some abduction reports…but once again there is no solid theory or research to back up these notions.

TNN also makes a special point of stating that we are in no way affiliated with the “Disclosure Effort” which is supposedly being orchestrated without knowledge of organizing bodies and even official telepaths. Persistent speculation has it that TNN, being part of the galactic media conglomerate, has lost its freedom to report accurately, and is being manipulated to help acclimate Terrans to the idea that extragalactic Contact has already taken place, in secret. Certainly, if extragalactic Contact had already taken place, the galaxy would be rocked to the core, and cherished notions would be unceremoniously shattered. Some have even suggested that galaxy-wide panic would set in, should Contact happen prematurely. History tells us that the Galactic Protocol was developed because pre-jump societies did indeed panic when prematurely confronted with Contact. But we are, after all, a galactic civilization, and more evolved than that. We can handle Contact. Take the TNN survey to share your thoughts about Contact. Are we ready?