Approximately 65 quintillion (base 9+) hydrogen spin-flip cycles before the current period, a stellar nova occurred in a region local to the goo alien’s home system. While goo alien biology was especially susceptible to this bombardment, this was a devastating event for all species in range without the knowledge to prepare for it.
Vessels in interstellar flight were not prepared for this amount of xray radiation. Natural planetary defenses – magnetic fields, ozone layers, and the like – were overwhelmed.
The goo aliens themselves were reset to their biological basics. Not even memory of their strains remained. A feudal society was rebuilt in an era where only natural birth was known, with development only really picking up after controlled birth, with it’s capability of maintain inter-generationally memories, that development really took off – albeit this development closely coincided with early dictator strains.
Meanwhile, the Plyd, coming upon the trailing edge of the nova – well, it still is not fully explained what their role might have been in the area pre-disaster. Weather they themselves were the remnants of a type 2 tyrant government, or passing through as they claimed, looking for larger purpose.
There was a rapid expansion of Plyd ranks, rescuing stranded crews and – when it was decided homeworld repatriation was not a good option, raising them and reeducating them in plyd traditions. By the second and third generations, species that had not died out were considered as representatives for the wider organization, spreading thinly across the galaxy.
There are about 1200 species that are represented in the Book of Plyd, these contacts made across most of the milky way galaxy. Most have multiple first contact pages, as many species have multiple civilization resets. The Plyd of course have the whole book translated to their lingua franca, though this is not the version distributed on first contact; that version is 4000-ish pages, each in the language it was originally provided in.
In daily lives, they act has upscale distributors among contacted species. This is partially to intentionally to discourage the dangerous experiments that type 1+ experiments require, and partially not to squash lower type species trading.
They also essentially act as lifeguards – most colonies on new planets start as crashed spaceships; if judged sustainable, the Plyd inform the wider galaxy of the event; if not sustainable, the Plyd retrieve survivors and bring them back to contacted planets – and if not contacted, they are either kept under plyd care or accepted as refugees by other worlds.
There seems to be no central governing body of the Plyd, but any action of consequence requires conscientious of traders in local regions. Regular observations of uncontacted species is not necessarily done by Plyd members of those species, to keep favoritism down – so those actually making first contact may have to come from a great distance when a decision to contact has been made.
First contact may not be a positive thing. It may contain elements of forceful disruption of dangerous actions and tenancies.
As with any population, an average Plyd representative is ‘better’ than the population due to selected traits, not because of a qualitatively better population. Having access to superior education and technology means more capable people, not better people. Even if that guise must be adopted in some scenarios – if there is any indication that it is actually believed, internal countermeasures are quick and draconian.
The Asking for a resignation & Backing the request with your own resignation tenancy is so strong that there have been waves of resignation leaving sections of the galaxy not monitored for weeks.
The Plyd themselves extracted the strange matter used in the goo alien’s short jump drives – which they then provided as part of their big post first contact trade deal, leaving the general public in the dark about how it was obtained. (from the plyd, but not extracted by the plyd)
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