The Verdants
Depending on the nature of the overlap between galaxies, there could
easily be catalogues of trillions of species, or more. In more
advanced circles, there could be a shared kind of Universal Report,
a complex news briefing that spans incredible distances and puts our
national broadcasts to shame. Rather than dwell upon the affairs of
one’s own small planet, such aliens could check on the science and
doings of other systems, ranging freely and diversely.
The fastest published
report on the subject was logged by Los Angeles Times journalist
Phillip Krapf, who says that the Verdants, a group of
aliens with
whom he has interacted, can travel at a rate that is one million
times the speed of light, using what they call “flicker drive” (a
kind of electrogravity, apparently). Readers may be encouraged to
note that the aliens Krapf describes say that they’re only 229
million years more advanced, technologically, than are humans.
Older, more advanced alien populations may be much more capable.
On larger planets with heavy gravity,
stocky bodies may endure, i.e. Stefan Denaerde’s remarkable report
about
Iarga—just 10 light years from Earth.
By now, aliens are able to store the sum total
of human electronic data, then file and correlate it compactly.
However, in each case of the sort,
finer-minded independent civilizations grow up in surrounding
systems and offer a critique of such offenders. Clearly, humans can
choose to emulate a better strategy.
Sadly to say, some such bureaucracies have reportedly lingered, long after the perceived external threat abated. According to various aliens’ reports, the end result can be a subtly disguised bias against other species, a presumption of superiority; an epic kind of wastefulness.
What begins as a defensive mobilization ends
up as a self-serving apparatus intended to boost the given
population’s lifestyle above and beyond that of all local
competitors.
Ultimately, inter-galactic agreements must arise in order to do so, i.e. on a galaxy supercluster level (thousands of galaxies). Even then, there can be obstacles: hyper-advanced regimes on a larger scale that can tend toward repression of individual sensitivities and seek to control populations of lesser duration. Among the more aged aliens in such regimes’ security services (some of whom can be thousands of years old, if not more, hence extremely de-sensitized) the need to control others can be destructive and rigidly compulsive in character.
We need to be careful with regimes that tend to run on
autopilot due to advanced, albeit subtly-mechanized idealizations of
thought. Sometimes, due to age and mind-numbing experiences, they
seem to run out of creative impulses and lapse into defensiveness,
coupled with reflexive observation.
Virgo contains about 2000 galaxies, compared to the 3 spiral galaxies (plus 14 smaller irregulars and 17 yet smaller ellipticals) in the Milky Way’s local group of galaxies.
Smack in the middle of the Virgo supercluster (not a large supercluster—as superclusters go) is the galaxy M-87 (click below image), a giant elliptical galaxy containing about 1.3 trillion suns’ worth of mass. The Milky Way is less than one-fifth as big, in comparison.
Over time, M-87 has apparently gobbled up smaller galaxies, causing a bizarrely destructive “hyper-nova” explosion whenever M-87’s massive central black hole swallowed a smaller galaxy’s central black hole.
So, in the center of Virgo is a giant galaxy (M-87) that is both too hot, and too dangerous to support all of the populations of the galaxies that M-87 ate, so to speak.
Surrounding galaxies would be expected to accommodate a number of refugees, to share the burden more widely.
Also within Virgo, i.e. running along what is called the Markarian Chain of galaxies (click below image) are numerous other large ellipticals that would, by now, have required a similar cooperation.
As a result, we can reasonably predict that galaxy superclusters are:
Alien sources say that large-scale cooperation is the norm and that superclusters are carefully monitored as to ecological outcomes.
Given the prohibitive energy and environmental costs of war
involving advanced alien technologies, full-scale conflict is
reportedly rare. However, disputes can arise, which presumably
deepens the movement toward larger, collective alternatives and
legal arrangements.
When a relatively backward human structure of the sort gets its hands on technology that alien neighbors cannot trust will be used safely, a basic judgment is in order:
In later pages,
the topic will be discussed in specific detail, including direct
quotes by various aliens.
The fact will be denied by those who insist that every interaction with off-world visitors is a spiritual awakening, a cosmic kind of homecoming. I’ve argued with otherwise intelligent adults who insist that those seemingly good “gray” aliens don’t do harmful abductions, they don’t collude with black budget elements in the USA, they aren’t part of an attempt to play both sides of the human fence off of each other for their federation’s political and resource purposes.
I’ve debated one well-educated researcher (R.B. - Richard Boylan?) who, despite noting missing time after which he found nasal implants and newly formed scoop marks in his flesh (the result of an abduction), insists that gray-related “federation” aliens have nothing to do with “harmful” abductions and cattle mutilations.
* He also said that because such aliens
manipulated our genes, they “own” us, in part, and have a right to
manipulate us.
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