Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-1370845-20140828233804/@comment-32788838-20140829182454

An idea for the potential "threat" that could gather people who want to get involved up;

Hyperspace travel for high-tier cultures is threatened when vessels that have undergone hyperspace-oriented FTL begin disappearing and not reaching their destinations. The big Gigaquadrantic groups (that want to get involved) begin to converge and discuss a means to stop this phenomena from happening as its becoming more and more common and eventually discover that the hyperspace that a majority of the Gigaquadrant cultures use is inhabited by an extradimensional/extrauniversal xenoculture consisting of maybe many forms of life (possibly built up of antimatter). These "hyperspace natives" fear the hyperspace-using cultures of the Gigaquadrant and have done for untold eons and have thus began to launch their own alien campaign against the Gigaquadrant natives that attempt to use their space.

The high-tier empires could invite the lower-tier ones, via providing hyperspace hardware, a chance to both explore the universe within this hyperspace and communicate with/fight against the natives, with this campaign opening up the chance for Gigaquadrant-sized antimatter mining as well as an opportunity to maybe understand the "hyperspace natives" much better and cool down the hostilities between the two sides. Depending on how people would want the storyline to go and how their civilisations would see the Gigaquadrant invaders fighting against the "hyperspace natives" to secure safe FTL once again or perhaps attempting diplomatic reasoning to otherwise alien entities, which would result in maybe the hyperspace xenoculture fragmenting into its own factions to determine what to do with the Gigaquadrant aliens, ie. allowing them safe passage or attempting to forbid FTL on the Gigaquadrant's part entirely.