What is Past is Prologue [Pre-Discussion]

[Superfluous Crow]

How many worlds do the humans have settlements/minorities on? Are we talking dozens, hundreds or millions?
What alien species have they met, if any?

[Tangential]

Dozens of settlement properly colonized or at 30%+ urbanization. Hundreds with smaller ones. Not all are planets are moons, many are less permanent, whether anchored to asteroids or free flotilla-style.

The Sentience, Sapien Clans, and a half a dozen other types of non-humans have been spawned or synthed into existence by us, so those don't really count as aliens. There has thus-far been no life-form discovered as intelligent as us circa Antiquity, though a few are capable of communication, and only about 30 altogether that are larger than microbes. Rumors persist of an ancient, perhaps gaseous, elfin energy race that watch from the edges. Of course such rumors are prone to crop up each time we dare a new frontier and may just be that.

Finally no one's quite sure what the Annihilation Virus is.

[Hibou]

Welcome back comrade. Something I would actually like to see is a short glossary of terms you mentioned in describing some other stuff, such as the Adams Doctrine. Maybe create a post with a quick one- or two-sentence description of this sort of thing. The Adams Doctrine sounds nifty. :D

[Tangential]

I should clarify, no one knows whether the annihilation virus is an alien or not. It's not some utterly mysterious thing.
I'd love to sir, but to approach the backlogue of to-write bits and that, at once, is too much at the moment. If you generate such a GoT, I will fill it as time goes on.

[Tangential]

A publisher contact is rather interested in this.

Damn. I need to hook it to a (preferably free to use or with few strings attached) system and streamline it into playability. Thoughts?