User blog:Krayfish/No need for first contact?

Well, I read something very interesting on space.com. Apparently, there is one radio capable civilization for every one million solar systems. However, there are 4.5 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. If we get incredible generous, then this would mean that there are less than 4,500 space faring civilization in just the Milky Way alone, and only a small fraction of those would be capable of crossing the entire galaxy.

So why do I bring this up? Well, according to The Index Project, the KMF spent roughly 5,000 years looking for all sentient life. If there's only as few as 4,500 spacefaring civilizations, the Karnasaurs would have found all of them by now. Yes, you heard correctly. ALL of them. The KMF would know about every single civilization capable of radio in the Milky Way as well as had enough time to decipher all of their languages and dialects to incorporate them into translator technology for the convenience of other species.

What does this mean exactly? Quite simply put, unless the KMF hasn't laid out the welcome mat yet for a particular civilization, there would be absolutely no need for first contact stories for any spacefaring race, because every civilization in the galaxy would have open records available to read at Domum Regimen. In other words, a first contact story would be more along the lines of "Oh, you must be this alien. I've heard about you from Domum Regimen.  Nice to meet you."

Not too many changes would be needed with this new information in mind. For The Meeting for example, it would only require nothing more than some dialogue changes at the beginning of the story. Other than that, just keep this fact in mind as we add new civilizations and interactions.