Editing Blue Giant:History (section)

==The Cygnan War==

Anyway, the humans came into contact with the Cygnan civilisation in 2581, about 700 Ly from Earth. The Cygnans had a slow deliberate policy of expansion. They would set some Hogs down on a planet and let them decide which species the planet was most suitable for. The human corporations started settling worlds with Hogs on them. Since they didn’t recognise them as a sentient species, they also started digging up Lattices for resources and to clear their settlement areas of radioactivity. The Lattices demanded action; some Tumbleweed scientists undertook a study of human colonial culture and quickly came to some very accurate conclusions. The Cygnans started arming for war.

Diplomacy didn’t work because Tumbleweeds concluded that the Rourkes (nightmarish spider-monsters) would be a really good choice for ambassadors. The Slugs just ignored everything and continued their colonisation efforts - mostly onto planets already containing humans. Diplomacy eventually failed partially because the Rourkes tried to negotiate with individual human nations and partially  because the Lattice demands for reparations were impossible to meet. War broke out by 2584.

During the war the humans developed [[Blue Giant:Starship Attributes#Wormholes|jump drive]] technology and the Tumbleweeds developed [[Blue Giant:Starship Attributes#Mass Thrust Drive|Mass Thrust Drive]] technology. When the Americans and Dutch got a hold of both they developed [[Blue Giant:Starship Attributes#Star Flight Attribute|Star Flight]] technology and promptly bombed the Cygnan civilisation into oblivion. The Lattices were wiped out and three major species of Slug were made extinct. The Rourkes lost their entire fleet of vessels and were thus trapped on their homeworlds and only the Tumbleweeds made it out with some semblance of an empire, having been restricted to a few core planets.

''[[Blue Giant:Starship Attributes#Star Flight Attribute|Star Drive Technology]] takes the starship out of normal space and places it in either a wormhole, subspace, or hyperspace depending on the type of drive.''