Later, with all the nebula of the Snake.
The rest of the galaxy knew only one thing - the army consisting of rachni, crows and gots were led by someone who called himself Reapers.
And the Harvest had already begun. Huge ships, shaped like cephalopods or insects with a thick belly, appeared over the planet, meant a deadly battle. A battle that cannot be won.
Photos, videos, and other files carrying information about this, scattered across the extranet much faster than light.
People were still on the sidelines and watched what was happening with interest. With a very intense interest - if someone carries the power of galaxies without stress, using long decommissioned reasonable species as soldiers, this way he can get to Earth by chance. And the Earth ... For all its pride, the Earth can not reach even the last race of the Council, and other civilizations like the Khanars and Alcors can not reach. Even in the defense of their own system, they cannot be sure.
It was stupid to look for a way out of those who are now being reaped - they will certainly be glad of cannon fodder, but these weaklings will not help the Earth.
Looking for a way out of the reapers... Well, there are ways to kill yourself more stupidly, but not enough of them. People who lived on Eden-Prime, who sided losses of the battle for archaeological excavation, would have confirmed it with all their hands.
Look for a way out of your finds? But the last witness to the activation of LMA-1 died and was criticized almost half a century ago, and there was still no way to revive it.
To come up with a way out of myself? The most reasonable option. But how!? And how to do it?!
A hint of an exit was found from the unexpected side.
The lighthouse signal on a wave of communication with the probe "Parallax-4" was received by the telemetry station in 2186. The signal was reliably repeated and contained, in particular, the coordinates of the moving point on the celestial sphere relative to the coordinates of five stable pulsars.
The area of errors included the dwarf planet Sedna in the Orta cloud. Preliminary searches for the signal from Sednah on the frequency used did not yield results. However, ongoing observations have revealed that the signal's directionality diagram indicates an area outside the Earth's orbit, and confident contact has only been made when a communication ship is sent over Saturn's orbit. The contact started with a warning: "Don't approach, it's a danger to you and us.
Contact with Sednaya, or rather someone on it, was tight - behind Saturn's orbit on the focal line of the radio now had at least two long-range communications ships on duty, and the flow of information was flowing in both directions by tumultuous rivers. But the language coordinated by the contact programs was incomplete and inexpressive, and many terms were simply not clear. Unlike citadelic xenon languages, by the way.
On Sedné, as she herself said, there was someone under the name "Observer". The creature or device that was observing the Earth using sensors and surveillance systems located on the Moon. The Earthlings, of course, clarified what the surveillance system was there - Sednah answered with a reference to the coordinates. Judging by them, it was Calcium city, the oldest bookmark on the Moon. Sedna answered the questions about the purpose of such observation simply "Reasonable creatures are useful". When asked which xenons had built bookmarks number two and three, there was an untranslatable flow of information.
Speaking of xenos. The questions about the Citadel and Citadels, Zhenetsov and Zhatva Sedna were also ready to be answered, but the information was also in an indigestible format for people and human computers.
On attempts to explain the reason for this Sedna offered to build a translator. When asked what she called the translator, the Gorn scheme fell to people. What is surprising, the name was used exactly this way - the word of one of the earthly languages. Sedna claimed that the word most fully reflects its essence, suggesting to build it again for clarification.
Scientists looked at the drawings and combed the back of the head - Horn turned out to be a very small communication device like a satellite repeater, with antennas, reactors, transmitters and receivers of hundreds of different standards, and in addition required a large amount of X-matter, which the earthlings had a permanent deficit.