So, I have a phm plot bunny. Well. More than one, of course, because these guys breed faster than Taumoeba. But this one is particularly insistent. It'd take place some 700 (earth) years after PHM took place.
In the galactic scheme of things, most "neighbors" that don't have a lot in common, aren't competing against each other, and don't really have anything the other needs tend to have minimal contact. Mostly just "hey, do you need this" or "hey, are you heading over here" varieties of diplomacy to ensure they don't inadvertently cause a war.
However, there's one pair that as far as the rest of the galaxy can tell should have almost nothing to do with each other. Their home stars are 16 light years apart, their environments are toxic to each other, there's absolutely nothing they have in common.
And yet they explore together, they are each other's closest allies, and even though they can't even speak each other's languages, they still communicate just fine. (They can learn each other's languages, they just can't pronounce them, aside from a few simple words on both sides.)
I am, of course, talking about Humans and Eridians.
Everyone else in the galaxy just doesn't get it. Humans and Eridians aren't inclined to explain. But they were each other's first contact, and the memory of, and history of, the reasons for the first contact and the fact that both species only still exist because one human and one eridian worked together means more to both species then they will ever want to explain.
I almost want to write this, because it'd be a fun worldbuilding exercise. But it would also be entirely OCs, because even Rocky would be gone after 700 years. (Maybe one of Grace's last Eridian students is still alive, but very ancient. I don't know. There would be Eridians who remember Rocky, though.)
So, what do you guys think? Worth noodling around with? Or just a good thought experiment to let loose on tumblr?
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