Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-4242472-20150504003042/@comment-47205-20150521100922

Universal translators. The only canonical explanation I know of that we've ever given for them is that they work by telepathy, which can somehow be applied to hyperspace transmissions (although they don't work for some "truly alien" species). Whatever their explanation, they were part of Spore and they're an established part of the SporeWikiverse canon.