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Originally Posted by Harshax
That's all I'm doing, is asking a lot of what if questions.
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Well, in this case ...
As for the first shock, there is an excellent description of such a situation in
the Uplift novels by David Brin, where humans are just a recently discovered
and very unimportant species in a universe inhabited by many extremely po-
werful alien species. It would be a bit difficult to describe the Uplift universe
here, but perhaps this could give an impression:
Uplift Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second shock reminds me of the Perry Rhodan series mentioned some-
where else. There the Terrans have to come to terms with the fact that
they are the descendants of settlers of a lost colony of a very old and now
decadent, but still incredibly powerful empire.
In this story the humans at first attempt to hide their existence from the
Empire, not wanting to become a remote colony of it, and secretly study,
then infiltrate and finally take over the Empire.
We are already into the third shock, I think. I could imagine that the alien
species controlling the frontier empire would prefer to look the other way
as long as the humans do not risk to cause an interstellar war.
Well, just some thoughts ...