Uncontacted Colonies

Uncontacted Colonies is the term used by IDS, to classify inhabited worlds, outside of the Known Worlds, and are - or were - inhabited by humans previously.

## History

Before the Second Apocalypse, and the subsequent Dimensional Anchoring, the humans went back to square one on faster-than-light travel. FTL travel was no longer possible, due to the ships' reliance on "gliding" outside of the universe, to allow the usage of higher-dimensions calculations and exploitation of a seemingly "fault" in the fundamental rules of physics, thus allowing humans to travel faster-than-light, without causing damage to the human bodies, or necessary artificial gravity aboard them, making the ships incredibly more lightweight than previously.

Many of the colonies were lost, due to either them being destroyed, lost, or simply due to changes in their orbit in the Milky Way, the main reason behind this being the latter - due to the subsequently discovered "jump" technology, allowing the ships to "jump" from Point A to Point B, as long as the Galactical Coordinates are known. However, if the colony's position is not known anymore, it is extremely dangerous to jump, even around the suspected zone, as one ship may jump into a star, literally, although space is extremely large and mostly empty.

## Known Worlds vs. Unknown Worlds

The Articles of Colonization were edited after the Second Apocalypse, and reedited after the expansion of the Milky Way Federation and its successors. The Known Worlds would be the limitation for colonization and human expansion.

### Reasoning

The Uncontacted Colonies' hypothetical cultures, after more than 4,000 years, has most definitely changed, and the current form of their culture and history, may put their Briserian ascendance either to a distant founding reason, up to a creation myth, that may be the core part of a religion. Another reasoning behind the strict limitation of exploring the Unknown Worlds, and illegality of colonizing outside worlds, especially if those are revealed to have been terraformed by IDS' past life seeding project on inhabitable planet, and are therefore capable of hosting life, if not destroyed.

At least one Uncontacted Colony has been revealed to be destroyed by nuclear conflict, however it was the result of a Lazarus Plan rogue chapter leaving the Known Worlds, way after the Articles of Colonization's re-edition after the MWF rapid expansion. And at least one colony managed to remain relatively unscathed by time, and managed to reach the stars again, after approximately 4,000 years without contact with Earth. Implying multiple devastating conflicts, including the usage of thermonuclear weapons, however, their civilizations might have fallen multiple times, and their scientific knowledge, lost over the course of more than four millennia: the Solaris Bi-Republic managed to send a colony ship to a potentially inhabitable nearby system, 4 light-years away, or about 40 years at roughly 40,000 kilometers per hour (11111.111 meters per second). The colony ship was discovered by the Briserians after roughly 20 years of travel, as a Briserian monitoring system detected radio signals from the interstellar medium. This has been the single case of a Uncontacted Colony integrated into the Known Worlds, as of 8025.

Multiple colonies, are known to have been inhabited, and are regularly checked by IDS, and the EHPS, to monitor their progression. All of these colonies are not capable of FTL travel.

## Known uncontacted colonies and hypothesis

According to IDS, an estimation of roughly 3,000 worlds were colonized by humans before the Second Apocalypse. An estimation of about 80 - 90% of these worlds have experienced at least one event of quasi-human extinction - or have been/are at the brink of extinction, as of 8025. An estimation of approximately 10.5% (or ~315 worlds) of all uncontacted colonies have reached a technological level similar to the Solaris Bi-Republic - the *conventional interstellar age* or beyond, and a final estimation of approximately 2% to 1.5% (or roughly 50 worlds), have attained a technological level similar to the Briserian FTL "jump" technology, proven possible, by the Human Confederation, which after multiple quasi-extinctions or self-destruction, have managed to recover, on a planet barely capable of supporting life. After 5,000 years without contact, they managed to colonize about 30 inhabitable planets, and is a fierce threat to the Briserians.