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500 million years ago…..

Tentacles cautiously crawl through the coral under the cover of darkness, careful at disturbing the stillness and silence of the sleeping sea. Tube feet absorb the resultant vibrations caused by its movement as it approaches its prey. Soon, it reaches the resting place of its large prey, a four foot long fish of dirty green scales. Fangs protruded from its thin, hard lips and a row spines extended from its back. A ravenous apex predator of the reef at day and a vulnerable prey as the night falls.

Spines latch to its sides and sunk into its hard flesh. Toxins are released to kill the beast in its sleep, a myriad of digestive enzymes inserted through the calcium based needles of the predator. The creature made its way to the dying beast's back, preparing to spew digestive enzymes upon it and filter feed its digested chunks dissolved in the cold water. Its pentagonal mouth opened and discharged a pressurized jet of digestive enzymes upon the beast's body.

Thanks to the high density of these enzymes, they flawlessly sink upon the beast's surface and digest it at standard speeds. The predator retracted its stomach and rested, drained after releasing the enzymes. With photosensitive microfilaments dotted on its central body, the creature captures the image of a full moon, shining brightly in a night sky full of malicious spears of flame and heavenly arrows of light.

35 million years ago…..

A bolt of electricity expands from a single neuron, growing and spreading rapidly to the millions connected in this cerebral web. A thousand joules of energy are gathered by this web, the sheer energy straining the million cell structure to its limit. In a mode of attack, the prehistoric brain unleashes its thousand joule strike upon its attacker. Twenty times the strength of a human punch impacted upon the attacker, a fearsome blue shark.

The creature shrieked in pain as 200 volts of bio electricity fried its face. A kilojoule of energy burned its mouth and a cauterized wound was created, bleeding its life into the water. It clenched its jaws in pain, splitting and killing its prey into two. The blue shark fled, leaving a trail of blood in its wake which will no doubt call great predators of the deep to hunt it down. The two halves are forever separated as one meets its doom in the shark's stomach while the other lives to grow.

The outer half drifted away as the shark fled indimidated and fell to the ocean floor, regenerating into a new and more evolved version of its devoured predecessor. With a more conductive and complex nervous system, the new creature could release such jolts during times of grave need. It selectively ate, its new nervous system allowing it to make simple preferences over food. Its first meal is the corpse of an eel, the eel's bio electric organs helped the newborn starfish gain the appropriate nutrients to further its electric shock.

Over the course of thousands of generations, the spiny starship gradually softened its surface and gained translucent skin. Its neural network expanded and complex sense organs evolved, microscopic eyes, sensitive skin receptors and even bio electric detection systems. Six brains formed to control this vast network, one in each arm and the largest one in the center. For if any arm is detached, a new starfish will grow from it and evolve to greater heights.

Bioluminescence took a few million years to evolve. As a mass extinction of large animals occured, the Nu starfish could not feast on the carcasses of large beasts nor kill them in their sleep. So, they used light to lure fish to them during the night and shocked them to death, using their tentacles to rip them apart and take them into their mouth one small chunk at a time. This leads them to develop flexible but powerful muscles. Strong when subjected to sudden force and flexible when moved by the Nu starfish.

3 million years ago….

The Nu encountered one another and touched. A miraculous moment that sparked the birth of a great galactic race occured. As two Nu touched one another over a budding curiosity, electric impulses were shared and the two Nu saw memories of one another, their thoughts shared through this physical connection. The two Nu explored one another with great curiosity, expanding their senses into two bodies, feeling the touch, sights, sounds and scents felt. The two felt one, two understood one, but the two realized the importance of separation.

The two hunted together, sharing their memories to benefit their united cause for survival. Eventually, they used their memory connection abilities to fend of predators. A single touch is all they needed to send an impulse of great fear or rage, driving their predators away with thoughts and visions that drove them to insanity. Eventually they reproduced, they detached an arm each to increase the size of their group. They used sharp rocks and the pain was great as they squirmed in agony, but the drive to spread overcome their several minutes of suffering.

They nurtured their severed tentacles, brought small scraps to be filter fed to them. By the next moon, the tentacles have grown into two new Nu starfish, and so begins the first semblance of sentience in the seas of Tarsus.

300,000 B.C.

Over three million years, the Nu starfish grew tribes and hunting communities. As their nervous systems grew larger and more complex, more variables could be recorded and calculated to their need. Variables for hunting include the hunting party's size, prey size, prey number, entrances to hunting site, chances of encountering predators, prey behavior and prey intelligence. Despite the much more advanced and complex neurons of the Nu and the several dozen billion of them that makes up their nervous system, the Nu have only primitive forms of sentience, basic emotions conveyed through bioluminescent light generated by the conductive neurons near their translucent skin.

With only primitive consciousness, the Nu use more of their nervous system to store and process data from memories, using them to better hunt and survive. Their awareness of the environment around them far surpass the most observant human being. If a man can see ten variables and correlate them accordingly, a Nu can do see and do a hundred with the same effort. Their considerable lack of higher brain functions result in them taking quite a long while to form or join tribes and communities.

In this time, communities can never surpass a hundred members and pair sized communities are a common lifestyle among the Nu. Two are all the general Nu requires. One takes a more active role as a hunter and scout for the pair while one takes a more passive role as a scavenger and a map maker. During the division of food, the hunter eats the heart, liver and muscles while the scavenger eats the rest of the organs and soft tissue.

Larger tribes with dozens of members are usually extended families who develop mutations that that make them less individualistic and filial. These large tribes rarely migrate and dominate most areas as they can slay sharks and greater sized predators. With many map makers, these larger tribes know many hunting grounds and are rarely territorial as they stick to one or two large sized hunting grounds at a time, letting smaller communities thrive in their shadows.

Only 38 of these large tribes exist in the whole planet, the community mutation is a rare thing indeed. At around this time, another mutation occured. A lone starfish was born from the tentacle of a Nu starfish who died from radioactive exposure near the sea floor. A house sized meteorite crash landed a century ago and emitted a small amount of radiation, small enough to be harmless but strong enough to encourage the rapid growth and evolution of plant around it.

A century later, a great earthquake occured and split the rock into two. A large amount of ionizing radiation exploded from the split meteorite. All creatures in a fifty meter radius died instantly, their flesh decomposing at a visible rate. The parent starfish was between the twilight zone, much of its body destroyed by the burst of ionizing radiation. Luckily, one tentacle survived the burst and regrew into a greater creature. The high amounts of radiation mutated it to a great degree, like a million years of evolution happened in a flash.

At full growth, the new starfish measured 2 m wide and its neural network was much more wide. All of its cells possess a neuron organelle, allowing cells to provide bodily input and specific cells be commanded subconsciously to produce certain chemicals according to need. The Starfish's mind can travel throughout its body and feel the action of every cell, its mind was one of many. 14 trillion neurons make up its system and 186 trillion other cells completed its body.

Five megajoules of electricity can be released at once by this nervous system and thought to thought conversations occur at 100 times speed instead of the old 60 times. A wide spectrum of emotions are opened up to this starfish. Blends of primal, chaotic emotions like physical attraction and sense of community and new, refined emotions such as curiosity, truth and trust. With its newly gained longing for acceptance, it gathered a massive community of its own.

It shared its emotions, foreign colors and sensations to the other starfish of this age. In their sleep, the new starfish taught its less evolved kind about the advanced emotions it feels since its birth. It introduced the pull of curiosity, a drive to discover the nature of the world around one for better or for worse. It taught them to trust in their fellow kin and to unite. It made them felt the longing of acceptance and the benefits of civilization. Slowly, the community worshipped it.

The community started with a meager 100 members, each taught how to feel by the mutant's guidance. Then, as the next generation is birthed, the mutant reached out and changed them to its image. It inserted its genes through a complex pattern of electrical pulses, changing the DNA of a hundred newborns and then it stayed immobile for days, recovering its energy.

200,000 B.C.

The Mutant Nu and its tribe grew to the size of 10,000 members, mostly descendants of the original mutant's followers. At such a large size, the tribe settled in an abundant reef, teeming with life. With a surplus of food due to the large population of hunters, many members of the community approached the finer arts of shaping their land, sharing and storing thoughts. So, a rudimentary hierarchy formed.

The mutant and the tribe's elders served as the leaders of this large community, their word is law. Larger members of the tribe become librarians of the tribe, storing and processing information for the tribe's benefit. They create maps, store and invent knowledge, acting as the tribe's analysts, advisors and researchers. As for the smaller and more agile members of the tribe, they act as hunters and scouts, bringing back food and supplying information to the librarians of the tribe.

The first traditions were formed at this time, the start of the Nu'Tarsus culture. Every year, a genetic memory would surface and an urge to watch the stars at night would occur. The whole tribe would connect and watch the star within their settlement, a collection of massive coral circles rich with shells, small bioluminescent anemones and independent kelp trees. The librarians would record this moment and the new librarians would be charged with storing the images of the starry sky until the next year, where they will transfer the memory to the older librarians.

150,000 B.C.

With a permanent settlement, the scouts could not map the reef beyond 111 miles away and were limited in sight and knowledge. To acquire knowledge of what lies beyond, the tribe devised an ingenious plan for its age. By opening trade with smaller, nomadic communities, they can trade food for memories. At first, the trades were awkward as the smaller communities did not understand the concept of benefit.

After years of memory trading, the surrounding Nu communities understood the concepts of benefits and trade, forming alliances and trading options for their betterment. Now, pair communities are in decline while communities with more than a dozen members begin to rise rapidly. The number cap also rose, the unmutated Nu developed thousand sized tribes and semi permanent settlements, migrating after every generation or two.

After thousands of years, travel routes formed and indirectly, the species united as each tribe would trade information with nomads or other tribes. Permanent settlements began to appear far away from each other to prevent competition, as the Nu starfish find competition between tribes as a threat to survival. Soon, five major tribes settled in the reefs, creating five checkpoints for the various routes travelled by the small nomadic tribes.

The mutant's tribe settlement developed into the first city of 20,000 inhabitants. Shells and movable corals were used to make dens and storage areas. The Nu starfish had no need for preservatives, for their filter feeding skin could absorb the leftovers with no risk of infection. A proto religion formed as the Nu people began to dispose of the dead by feeding them to predators that exist beyond the cliff that separates the reef and the open ocean. The dead are checked by neural possession to see if there is any life so that they don't accidentally send one of their kind to their doom.

120,000 B.C.

A Nu librarian accidentally developed the art of agriculture after shifting through memories and analyzing them. Some hunters and scouts convert to a new working class of tenders, their duty is too raise and farm breeds of fish for the tribe. After a few thousand years, the hunter caste has faded into history, mostly supplanted by the tenders and outnumbered by the scouts. The remaining hunters become tenders who specialize in herding and capturing the larger and more dangerous beasts of the reef.

100,000 B.C.

The soldier caste was invented when scouts detect a migration of massive predatory squids. Expecting them to arrive in a month, the soldier caste was quickly constructed to protect the community. A military alliance was briskly forged between tribes to combat predators and a large army of Nu was assembled. Even with all the preparations in the world, the Nu are bound to take losses. The smaller tribes lost many of their members, forcing them to merge into larger tribes or merge with an existing tribe to survive.

This first united battle against predators were remembered in the festival of Shekulah, celebrated by honoring the dead, eating calamari and taking a day of rest. This festival also marks the start of the priest caste, a sub caste of the librarians who manage festivities and rituals.

90,000 B.C.

The city of Kundhar, which means beginning, is established. A city of 100,000 that make up 20% of the mutant tribe's population. Surrounding and supplementary cities were constructed around the city upon the massive coral reef. After 200 years, the people of Kundhar invented a rudimentary written language to store information in case the librarian passes. All librarians begin using their electroactive nervous system to carve writings into the coral and caverns, while elders taught the language to the city.

80,000 B.C.

The Kundhar Grand Archive was completed, a titanic complex of writings upon an empty expanse beneath the reef, lit by selectively grown bioluminescent life. All librarians are to write down information into the archive immediately following a system and composition. This is done to prevent new knowledge from blending with old knowledge and corrupting the Nu history. Hundreds of tribe cities began to form throughout the neptune sized planet of Tarsus.

70,000 B.C.

The Preserver sub caste was born to oversee the Grand Archive and memorize it. Five Grand Preservers manage the sub caste in sorting out and providing information on the archive. With the preserver caste managing the Grand Archive, a calendar system was invented to help improve information classification. The Cetarine calendar started on the Day of Stars, marking day 1 of the first month of Asora, which means stars.

60,000 B.C.

The Overseer council was invented, a group of 5 elders who represent the five aspects of Nu society. History, Military, Architecture, Religious and Social Overseers. Overseers are elected by the elder caste every Cetarine decade, which are 14.98 earth years.

Astrology has started.

Organized Religion starts to form.

40,000 B.C.

The Nu discovered the use of the shiny rocks, naming it metal. Using their electric touch, they separated the metal using heat, causing each mine to naturally produce a nearly pure metal substance. With pure metals in abundance, the Nu quickly developed a more complex version of the four elements theory which hints to the existence of fundamental forces.

30,000 B.C.

A United Nu civilization developed in the reef. The Tarsus Hierarchy spread across a territory the size of California. It is lead by the Nutarch, any individual who is chosen by the Overseer Council or the previous Nutarchs. Their reign is relative in timespan, lasting until a better suited candidate is chosen and trained. The ascension of a Nutarch will always take place on the new year, letting the stars decide its fate.

20,000 B.C.

The Tarsus Hierarchy expands to the open oceans, using animal migration patterns as transportation. More diverse tribes of Nu were discovered beyond the reef. As a common sense reaction, alliances and trades were done to comprehend the territory of the open ocean.

Physics was invented after composite observations by the elder caste, biological application of electromagnetism leads to javelin turrets and primitive gauss rifles.

19,000 B.C.

Golden Age begins after the discovery of an empty and abundant expanse. The Tarsus Hierarchy forms a twin civilization to manage both lands. Feudalism is proposed but avoided due to the elder caste's advice of having two kings and councils instead of a vast multitude of lords which will birth a new caste.

Reef whales are tamed as transportation. Organized transportation systems lead to more efficient society.

16,000 B.C.

The Tarsus Hierarchy encounters the similarly sized Vellir Combine in the northern sea. Exchange of information leads to several leaps of advancement for the Nu race.

10,000 B.C.

The Tarsus Hierarchy reaches modern technology with the advent of quantum physics and the mass energy equivalence.

The first vacuum space is invented.

7,000 B.C.

The Henotheistic Ban'Kifrai faith becomes the dominant religion. Ascetics become an official caste as they study the arts of the mind and the metaphysical. Psychology develops rapidly.

6,500 B.C.

The first efficient nuclear fusion reactor is built on Khundar, the Nu people rejoice at the dawn of a limitless future.

Exploration is funded to move towards the future.

6,200 B.C.

300 years of exploration has successfully mapped the planet and brought the existence of 9 other Nu civilizations into light. Peaceful contact is established and ideas for a united Nu civilization are born.

5,500 B.C

The discovery of anti-gravitons have allowed the Nu civilizations to explore land with massive floating ships. Massive machines are released to roam and colonize the land. Only deserts are targeted for colonization as they are the most likely location for rare materials.

Bio engineering reaches kaiju cloning level, titanic beasts are created to protect the Nu civilizations.

4,000 B.C.

The Nu decide to colonize space after a recent peaceful revolution united the species under the Tarsus Commune, a meritocratic socialist caste society. Several colony ships were released to colonize the system.

3,000 B.C.

The Nu have fully colonized the system, terraforming habitable worlds and mining inhospitable worlds.

AI is developed to help the Nu process more data.

1,000 B.C.

AI have developed full sentience and are recognized as full Nu. AIs become prevalent in all walks of life, generally taking castes related to a complex degree of analytics.

The Tarsus system begins total colonization as space stations and colonies are built in the hundreds.

800 B.C.

The Nu discover a special form of material named Nal'tarin. The material reacts with complex electrical signals, forming extremely hard, diverse and dynamic material that can be shaped to the Nu's use. Due to the initial expenses in forming the "seed" for the material, Nal'tarin and its instances are stored for later use.

3 AD

Nal'tarin becomes standard material after 800 years of R D. Ships and stations that look like titanic versions of Tarsus aquatic wildlife become commonplace.

FTL starts development.

Nu generation ship is sent to the nearest star system for colonization and reproduction limiting laws are set in motion for the Nu number 21 billion at this time.

November 1, 1405 ADAndalar systemOlympus-class Mothership 'Reflection of Ra'2:17 P.m. S.E.T

A blue burst of light emerged in the cold edges of the system, heralding the arrival of a flagship. The light's intensity immediately dimmed as an Olympus-Class vessel emerged from an infinitesimal point in space. The human warship drifted slowly, its crew performing the standard scans upon arriving in any uncharted system.

The Reflection of Ra was a sphere shaped measuring 10 km in diameter. Its surface was smooth and gold, with small slits of orange lights, making it almost identical to Earth's star in texture. Pulses of radiation were rapidly deployed within microseconds of delay, fully mapping and scanning the systems for data to fill the necessary requirements.

Ever since the Rachni Integration 30 years ago, all systems are to be scanned for sentient life or spacefaring civilizations. Based on this scan, decisions will be made on the system, whether to abandon it but leave a listening tool or settle it. This protocol is to ensure that humanity doesn't accidentally interrupt or disrespect an alien civilization whether primitive or advanced, then the next arrival would be to perform a decided action.

Thermal and spectrometer scans reveal dozens of rocky worlds and a few gas giants surpassing jupiter in size. Five of these rocky worlds are assessed to be habitable as geographical, meteorological and geothermal scans reveal a stable environment, biomass readings reveal complex multicellular life akin to earth lifeforms. This is the 253th system within the 1000 systems of Covenant space possessing animal life.

The maximum expansion limit was increased to 150 light years two decades before. Out of this many colonies, only 400 of them are properly developed and possess more than a million colonists. A recent colony fever sparked by the extended limit resulted in a rapid expansion of Covenant territory, both from human and rachni factions. Five companies are battling for the largest economic advantage in colony building and mining. The battle consists of three human companies, Aramco, Regina Enterprise, Kenshin, a synthetic company, Starlink, and an expansionist Rachni Queen, Inanna.

On the bridge of the Reflection of Ra, Ptolemy I viewed the system through the holographic monitors. He smiled at the sight of the green worlds, a ripe opportunity for colonization and research. He envisioned the great pyramids of gold that would stretch across the planet and of floating cities in orbit. A glorious colony will be built on the world, it will be a testament of mankind's greatness.

"Another triumph for man and its allies." He muttered. Quickly, he took pictures of the world and the preliminary scans. Terabytes of data on all the known characteristics of the planet were uploaded to the Covenant command on Earth along with city designs and suggestions on the usage of this colony.

Since the Rachni's integration into the covenant, shipmasters and captains must not only learn the arts of war but also a good amount of understanding on technology and management. Shipmasters and captains must learn to judge worlds by their potential value and be able to make diplomatic first contact. These extra conditions increase training for a ship license by 2 years. Without a ship license, one cannot pilot anything than larger than a standard Battlecruiser, 800 m to 1,400 m, and could not enter frontier or uncharted space.

Punishment for this involves a form of house arrest where the transgressor cannot leave a certain group of systems. To help enforce this law is a system of incentives. To encourage captains and shipmasters to protect colonies with more initiative, those who discover a colony planet will receive resource and government shares depending on how much of their reccomendation is used by the blueprints. The blueprints are created by AI and senior members of the covenant's architecture department.

Then, he commanded, "Helmsman, take us to the fifth planet." A short nod came from one of the personnel clad in traditional egyptian armor, modified to be far less revealing and much more effective, a nearly skin tight golden power armor. His orange tattoos shone like mystical runes and the ship received the command to propel itself towards the garden world.

As the Reflection of Ra approached the fifth world, designated as Tawaret V by mankind, the pilots of the ship suddenly received readings. The pilots quickly confirmed the readings and activated tertiary weapons for possible hostility. Point defense laser turrets cleverly disguised by the ship's extravagant designs lit up, preparing a round of fire in their storage chambers.

To prevent capital ships from being vulnerable to enemy fighter craft, point defense lasers were grafted all around the vulnerable areas of the ship. These lasers contain a chamber to store a bullet. If things go wrong, the first blast fired after charging will be amplified by the stored bullet, increasing its strength and speed significantly. This first bullet burst is extremely effective in surprise attacks and first strike conditions, allowing covenant ships to gain more advantage since the battle's start. Even Rachni ships and their bio plasma turrets have similar mechanisms.

"Warning, ten unidentified craft detected. An Olympus-Class and nine Sol-Class vessels.", alerted Heqet III, the ship's AI. Heqet III appeared in hologram form as a young egyptian woman with golden accesories and an ornate green dress. The AI had been assigned to this ship for five years. To begin her analysis, she summoned real time images of these craft. "Craft are not Citadel or Reaper craft, energy fluctuations indicate energy armaments. Tread carefully captain." Reported the egyptian AI.

The ships in question were of diverse and organic design. They appeared like massive versions of what appears to be fish, crustaceans and a massive black eel. The ships only responded once they reached a light second away, turning themselves towards the Reflection of Ra. The eel's eyes gleamed blue and a signal was sent.

Morag Eel

Inside the heart of the great black eel is a chamber whose walls were orange and had hundreds of thousands of shining blue gems upon it. Hundreds of Nu basked beneath the light of the blue gems, becoming one with the ship. Their thoughts raced beyond the speed of light, billions of commands being sent around the ship.

The Commune had sent them and millions of their brethren to colonize this system, 20 light years from the heart of their species. They had arrived half a year ago and the Nal'tarin synthesizers are still halfway from completion. The colony's exoskeleton had been constructed though, the reefs have been completed and are being shaped to the colonists' liking.

While they are meditating, improving their patience with training, their acute senses detected an approaching vessel. The vessel was quickly discovered to rival the Morag Eel in size, intriguing the pilot collective. They sent a psychic pulse to gauge more information on these vessels. At a speed two thousand times faster than light, the pulse travelled past the human vessel in an instant and the pilots now knew plenty.

A plethora of three dimensional images entered the pilot's minds, detailing the ship's mass from its gravity fields, thermal scans, energy distribution scans and even composition scans. Due to the Nu's natural processing abilities that even rivalled fully sentient AI, the pilot collective gained much data and quickly concluded three things. Capital ship, energy weaponry and psychopassive material.

As is the Nu's instinct, they extended a hand of peace. A psychic hail was sent towards the golden orb.

Reflection of Ra

After a few seconds of facing the eel, chills went down the spine of the crew. The captain shivered as he felt a wave of sorts pass through him.

"What was that?" Demanded the captain. The ship's pilots furiously typed on the holographic interface. One of them answered, "Keter radiation, three million times the average human level." The same officer typed again, comparing the data from its sensors and interpreting it. "Captain, it seems that the vessel's occupants are psychics. Mercury-Class."

The captain's orange eyes widened in surprise, he thought, 'A psychic race? Could it be that we are not the only psychics in the galaxy?' Psychic abilities are common knowledge in the Covenant and integral to the military and R D departments of human society. People are either born psychics or engineered to be one. Even with a century of public experience and a four hundred years of classified history on them, genetically engineering psychics are still hard and expensive.

The only people in the covenant capable of creating psychics are Herald himself and fifteen people who are one of the original members of the Order of the Lamb. They were given the method to create up to Luna-Class psychics.

Ever since the public announcement of psychics, an official classification is posted on the network. The classification is divided into two categories, abstract and magnitude. Magnitude is self expanatory while abstract covers the comprehension and imagination of the psychic, representing the nature of the psychic's power based on three known categories.

First are Surface types, focusing on rigid or field based phenomenon such as barriers, projectiles and enchantments. Second are Fluid types, those capable of making evolving and dynamic phenomenon. Examples of these are quantum instability phenomenon and sentient summons. Third and presumably unknown are Elohim types, psychics whose imagination are so complex that reality is inferior to their minds and the universe is at the tip of their fingers. Powerful debates have lasted decades on the subject of Herald being an Elohim.

On the subject of magnitude, the covenant recognizes 10 levels, named from celestial bodies in the human system. The lowest level is Micrometeor-Class, ten times the human keter emissions and close range empathic.

Satellite-Class, a hundred times the human keter level, short range telepathy and microscopic psychokinesis.

Charon-Class, a thousand times the human keter level, mid range telepathy and millimeter psychokinesis.

Pluto-Class, ten thousand times the human keter level, long range telepathy and centimeter psychokinesis.

Luna-Class, a hundred thousand times the human keter level, interplanetary telepathy and easily observable psychokinesis. Psychokinesis can allow low altitude flight and lift cars.

Mercury-Class, a million times the human keter level, short range interstellar telepathy and significant psychokinesis. Their transmissions travel instantly between up to 10 light years. Psychokinesis is strong enough to demolish tanks and damage first generation TCMs.

Venus-Class, ten million times the human keter level, significant superluminal telepathy and formidable psychokinesis. Could survive vacuum conditions and combat a frigate singlehandedly.

Terra-Class, a billion times the human keter level, extremely powerful superluminal telepathy and godlike psychokinesis. Can punch a dreadnought with twice its own firing strength and lay waste to a citadel fleet.

Jupiter-Class, a trillion times the human keter level, presumably intergalactic telepathy and transcendent abilities. Hypothesized to be able to move star systems and bend reality with a simple thought.

Uriel-Class, at least a quadrillion times the human keter level, unknown abilities and presumably impossible stage.

A Mercury-Class psychic is quite rare in the covenant, only several hundred of them are present, most of them in the special forces. A whole race of powerful psychics would be a great ally to humanity, especially with the threat of reapers and the citadel council. After the first reborn Rachni queen established her colony in the tyrant stars region, memories on her aggressors resurfaced. It was a conglomerate government of 7 races whose ships she could identify.

Based on her genetic memory, an accurate image of these ships were made alongside their firepower. New simulations on ship combat were made and all captains must defeat a patrol fleet with superficial losses to graduate. The graduate will use a frontier colony defense fleet consisting of a covenant battlecruiser and three frigates. Enemies will consist of five citadel heavy cruisers and 25 frigates. The faster the victory, the higher the grades. AI will survey to make sure cheating isn't done.

The captain sent another hail, hoping for a response. He received another wave of keter radiation, and came to a conclusion, "Alert Terra of a first contact, aleph priority. Traits, likely biotech, psychic and peaceful so far." A short report was written and sent to Terra.

A parallel scene occured within the eel.

Two days later, a diplomatic team is deployed to the Andalar system. The Reflection of Ra is told to recede to the nearby colony of Naqadah. As compensation for waiting patiently and reacting well to a first contact scenario, the Reflection of Ra's captain is given 3 frigates and complementary crews.

The diplomatic team are mostly Luna-Class psychics, with an exception of two Mercury-Class psychics. They took a few hours to translate the Nu's transmissions and after six hours, they sent the Nu a special first contact package. The first contact package reveals the humans and Rachni, from technological marvels to musical masterpieces. It explained the human and Rachni nature in a figurative nutshell, showing the general but incomplete (due to possible hostile contact) view of humanity.

After exchanging the package, the diplomats proceeded for the next part of a peaceful contact. Based on the emotion displayed within the Nu's equivalent of first contact response, the psychic diplomats deduced that an alliance like with the reborn Rachni are possible. They opened a telepathic channel with the eel ship and began their invitation.

"Humanity and by extension, the Rachni, would like to propose an alliance with the Tarsus Commune. Political, economic and military alliance." Said the diplomatic team's leader. Ever since the Rachni's reincarnation under humanity, Herald has set in motion a plan to form a galactic government with any nearby species. Especially after being aware of the citadel council and the confirmation of the reaper threat, the formation of a second galactic government would aid mankind and its allies in many ways.

The Nu side of the channel paused, thinking of this proposal. They sent powerful psychic signals to connect with every member of the race throughout their territories. Each colony combined their minds into a massive psychic nexus and beacon, allowing instantaneous communication with all beings in the commune. AI mobilized to protect their organic masters while they enter the psychic consensus.

Within the Nu's psychic consensus, billions of powerful minds coalesced, shining like a galaxy of stars in the emptiness. The current Nutarch and its predecessors begin the consensus, "The We have finally encountered alien life, psychic alien life." The consensus is flooded with visual and audible thoughts, scenarios and possibilities filled the consensus with colors and sensations. The crowd's thoughts multiplied exponentially until the preserver caste silenced them using their powerful wills.

The Nutarch continued, "After a peaceful first contact with them, the aliens, known to The We as humans, proposed an alliance with The We. We would like to hear the thoughts of all members of The We in order to decide whether or not The We accepts or decline." The Nutarch made a short pause before it ends the introductions with a single word. "Begin!"

Trillions of thoughts, arguments and perspectives were raised in the consensus, forming two planets of collective opinions. The main, primal answer takes the form of the planets themselves while details act as elevations, depressions, atmosphere, liquid and solid objects on these planets. The behavior of these details depend on the nature of these details themselves, whether they are malleable and flexible by nature or rigid and non-negotiable.

Arguments are refined and concentrated on the collective mass of opinions. As minutes tick by in the psychic consensus, the mass of opinions gradually increased, reflected in the expansion of size. The end of the consensus is marked with the collision of these two planets of thoughts, the larger mass being the victor. After days of lightspeed debates, the opinions stopped flowing and the two masses are completed.

With a push of thought from both sides of the debate, the two collective mass of opinions collided with one another. A supernova of light burst from the collision, filling the minds of each Nu with the victor decision and the arguments backing it. As the light fades away, consensus has been reached, no additional arguments are formulated. "The consensus is reached. Meeting adjourned." Said the Nutarch. The galaxy of stars dimmed almost immediately, with only several hundred minds still connected.

The Nutarch and the high officials of the Tarsus Commune spoke with the pilots of the Morag Eel. They discussed the terms of the alliance to be presented. As the debate is over, the non-negotiable terms are treated as such.

As the consensus is done at sub-relativistic speed, only 403 microseconds passed in real time. The captains of the Morag Eel relayed their response through the channel, "The Nu accept your proposal, but with terms." The diplomat team went through a short discussion and then responded, "We accept these terms, as long as they are not outrageous."

On cue, the Nu pilots replied with the list of terms. "The Nu wish to designate 1,000 star systems for strictly Nu colonization only. Human military vessels are not allowed to enter unless proper identification is given. Human commercial or civilian vessels must undergo strict regulations to enter these systems. This is non-negotiable.

Two, discovered Nu vessels or technology must be handed back to the Tarsus Commune as fast as possible unless technological exchanges are made. Also non-negotiable.Three, Nu laws apply in Nu territory, foreign laws do not apply. This can be negotiated to monitor illegal activity."

The diplomats accept these terms on behalf of the United Terran Covenant. The news is formalized in the internet the next day. Communication with the Tarsus Commune are strictly done within the Andalar system.

1410 A.D.

Five years after contact and alliance with the Nu, a major trade exchange was conducted. Teaching the Spooky/Blink Drives to the Tarsus Commune, mankind will gain access to a large seed of Nal'tarin for research and open trading options with the commune.

1420 A.D.

After ten years of aid to Nu expansion and technology, mankind and the Rachni receives enough trust for the Nu to allow high ranking officers to visit their homeworld of Tarsus.

Mankind is inspired by the beautiful and diverse sea life of Tarsus, requests are made to allow Tarsus Sea life to be marketed for private properties. It is accepted and sold at ten times the standard price, humanity doesn't complain because of gene tech.

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Covenant Ship Sizes for the concerned:

• Sub-Cruiser Vessels

- Corvettes (100 m ~ 200 m)

- Frigates (200 m ~ 450 m)

- Destroyer (450 m ~ 800 m)

• Battlecruisers

- Light Cruiser (800 m ~ 1100 m)

- Heavy Cruiser (1100 m ~ 1400 m)

• Dreadnought (1400 m ~ 2000 m)

• Sovereign-Class Capital Ships

- Prince-Class (2000 m ~ 3000 m)

- Monarch-Class (3000 m ~ 4000 m)

• Sol-Class Capital Ships

- Luna-Class (4000 m ~ 5000m)

- Sol-Class (5000 m ~ 6000 m)

• Nephilim-Class Capital Ships

- Kunitsu-Class (7000 m ~ 8000 m)

- Amatsu-Class (8000 m ~ 9000 m)

- Kotoamatsu-Class (9000 m ~ 10 km)

• Olympus-Class Capital Ships

- Zeus-Class (10 km ~ 12 km)

- Odin-Class (12 km ~ 14 km)

- Ra-Class (14 km ~ 16 km)

- Amaterasu-Class (16 km ~ 18 km)

- Omeotl-Class (18 km ~ 20 km)

• Svarga-Class Capital Ships

- Buddha-Class (20 km ~ 25 km)

- Brahma-Class (25 km ~ 30 km)

- Meggido-Class (30 km ~ 40 km)

- Seraphim-Class (40 km ~ 70 km)

- Elohim-Class ( 70 km)