Fiction:Eriaroon-Yorchi Conflict

Within the expanse of the Milky Way Galaxy, two very different civilizations began their journey to take their place amongst the stars.

The Yorchi Union, a militaristic society of beings who inhabited a sulfuric volcano world, dispatched probes across space, seeking out new worlds, new locations to colonize, new resources to exploit. They were newcomers to the interstellar community, yet to encounter another intelligent species. For them, merely touching most other species would result in death, for their biology was adapted to a highly acidic and water-lacking environment.

The Eriaroon Eugenic Republic, a star state of aquatic cephalopods who lived within an ocean beneath frozen ice, sent crewed vessels- they lacked mechanical computers, and their curiosity led them to consider venturing into space as great accomplishment, if a risky one- to gain new information on the systems that surrounded them. Space- or the Great Beyond, as they knew it- was a recent a revelatory discovery. The moment they had first broken the ice to witness the void of space, seeing the dim yet detectable light from the distant furious blaze above that most would call a star, their world had changed from limited to infinite.

To one civilization, water was a deadly acid. To the other, it was the air they breathed, the world they moved in. One saw any other beings as a possible threat to their security, the other saw other such beings as demons from beyond.

Their first encounter with one another would not be a pleasant one.