Humans

Typical individuals

Humans are warm blooded mammals from planet Earth in the Sol star system.

Average height - 160-190 cm.
Average lifespan - 70±20 years.
Average weight - 65-95 kg

History

Main Article: History of the Mankind

Humans are on the verge of entering the Space Age. They have advanced science and technology and are not that far from discovering principles of interstellar travel on their own. However, for some reason, their society and culture remain very fragmented and uneven - while some parts of the planet have a reasonably high culture level, other parts remain hopelessly barbaric.

Xenopsychologist Gharr have speculated that this might be due to humans having relatively high aggression (though, still within the average boundaries), which encourages group splintering and competition.

First Contact Incident

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Around 285 A.C. (Year 201█ in native timeframe), one of the Alliance Explorer fleets entered the Sol system. Underestimating the human technological level, the explorers decided to briefly land in a sparsely populated area to sample the ecosystem of the planet and to possibly observe the natives from a distance. During atmospheric entry, the shuttle was detected by the missile defense systems of one of the nations, which launched a rocket at the shuttle. The rocket hit the shuttle and forced the pilot to crash land far from the designated landing coordinates. Nearly all of the crew were killed and the remaining survivors became trapped on the planet. The Exploration fleet couldn't recover them, and the crashed remains of the shuttle, due to risks of further attacks from the natives and eventual confirmation of their existence, which was a violation of the First Directive.

Eventually, Fleet's Commander decided to bypass the Directive and to make direct contact with the planet's civilization, to retrieve lost crewmates. Contact was made with the ruler of the nation that held the survivors, and then with the rest of the planet. Humans have proved to be developed and resilient enough to take the news without any excessive upheaval to their society, though apparently, the full weight of what has happened had not yet dawned on them.

Integration into the Alliance

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Several years after the end of the First Contact Incident and after the start of the Ghost Conflict, humanity was on the path of acclimating to the Alliance's culture and standards, in accord with the Second Directive. However, due to the need to provide accommodations to the Fleet members on the planet, the acclimatization plan was thrown out of the loop and required various ad-hoc fixes and compromises. Furthermore, it resulted in tensions with the local population, complicating interactions and, in some cases even going as far as providing fuel for xenophobic rhetoric or even outright provoking the creation of hate groups.

VEHEMENT radical movement

Bizarrely, out of all the anti-Alliance groups that sprang around the planet, one particular misanthropic doomsday movement, called VEHEMENT, began rapidly growing in numbers. The movement's manifesto postulated that humanity was a stain on the face of the Universe, that humans deserved to go extinct, and that the only moral choice was to steer the civilization towards extinction. The arrival of the Alliance offered humanity "a way out" of their justified end, by the provision of resources and help from the aliens, therefore threatening to avert our extinction and, what's even worse, allowing for the possibility of "infecting" other planets with humans.

Though the movement retained "V" (as in "Voluntary") in its name, it began to rapidly radicalize. Soon, their rhetoric left almost no space for anything "voluntary", declaring that if humanity doesn't want to reject the Alliance's help, it must be forced to. Eventually, this resulted in its members committing several acts of terrorism focused on Alliance-affiliated organisations and Alliance installations, which prompted the world's governments to finally recognize it as a proper threat.

Despite the Alliance's interactions with humanity not being without problems and misunderstandings, the results of the Acclimatization plan were largely beneficial so far, so both human sociologists and Alliance xenopsychologists find the weird and rapid growth of VEHEMENT, originally a virtually unknown fringe group with barely anything but a single website to their name, to be a highly unnatural anomaly, indicating its nature as a possible target of some kind of artificial influence and manipulation by an unseen agent. Though VEHEMENT states itself to be anarchic and with no leadership structure, claiming that "anyone who agrees with our ideology is a member of the movement", the actions of the movement are too coordinated and purposeful for it to be the case.