First Contact with the Soos'Aer
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2197
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- Elysium Colony established at Tau Ceti.
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2241
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- Tangaroa Ocean survey begins.
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2243
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- First communication with Soos'Aer.
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2254
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- Sol System learns of Soos'Aer.
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2258
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- Science ramrobot departs for Tau Ceti.
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2282
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- Science team arrives at Tau Ceti.
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The colony on Elysium (Tau Ceti) had been established
in 2197, but the first communication with the world's
indigenous sophonts did not occur until 2243. Humans
had been aware of the Soos'Aer for decades before the
first dialogues, but the xenobiologists of Elysium Colony
considered them to be a non-sentient social predator. It
was only in the 2240s, when the colonists carried out a
survey of the ecology of the Tangaroa Ocean, that the
complexity of Soos'Aer society was recognized.
The colony's linguists and exobiologists at once began
an intensive study of the language of the Hal'Aera, the
alliance of families that sometimes visited the tidal
lagoons of southern Cythera. Within a few years word of
contact with humans had spread to most of the families
of Tangaroa and the shallows around Rhadamanthys.
The news of contact with a non-Terran sentient species
caused a sensation when it arrived in Sol System in
2254. Within months, the three great powers had
agreed to send a joint science team to augment the
limited expertise of Elysium Colony's own scientists. A
group of three hundred scientists departed from the Belt
four years later and arrived in the Tau Ceti system in
2282.
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