Ir'vaki-Human Relations

Ir'vaki-Human relations

Ir'vaki	The Coalition
Diplomatic mission
Ir'vaki Embassy, Mars	Coalition Embassy, Rothak
Envoy
Ambassador Kru'ul Arrasaz	Ambassador Mathias Isaksen

Relations between the Ir'vaki and humanity have varied over the course of several centuries, ranging from opposition to allyship.

History

Human Observation

The Ir'vaki have long observed humanity from afar, watching Earth with long-range telescope equipment and gathering information about humanity's culture from its radio emissions. Due to humanity's relative level of technological advancement, the Ir'vaki opted to wait until humanity matured to establish diplomatic communications. However, humanity's discovery of exophysics in the early-21st century and its recklessness leading to a causality paradox that triggered Precursor galvatron arrays to activate forced the Ir'vaki to attempt diplomacy with humanity in efforts to warn them and prevent them from causing further damage to their star system.

Due to the information about humanity's exophysical activity taking approximately 31 years to reach Rothak, the Ir'vaki only realised the situation by 2058. As the round-trip delay for radio transmission (62 years) was long and assumed humans would respond immediately, the Ir'vaki opted to send six diplomats in suspended animation on a shuttle towards the Solar System, a journey that would take only 37 years with their antimatter propulsion technology.

Transport Crash

The Ir'vaki shuttle reached the Solar System in 2092, passing Europa in late March. However, as it passed near to the planet, it was engaged by automatic anti-asteroid batteries in a Paradigm research base on the moon's surface. The ship, which had its shields and cloaking generators disabled as a show of goodwill, sustained heavy damage, gravely injuring the diplomats inside. The ship's remains, which were originally thought to be an old satellite the guns had accidentally engaged, were brought down to the surface for analysis. When the base personnel realised what it was, and found the diplomats still just barely alive inside, it caused widespread panic, with the facility director ordering comms to be cut to ensure secrecy.

The Paradigm base happened to be a joint base with BioCorp, who were investigating theorised marine megafauna in Europa's oceans. Paradigm struck a quiet deal with the company, selling it the remains of the diplomats in a deal to make their problem go away. At BioCorp's facility, the diplomats were cryogenically frozen to prevent them from dying, and the next month they were transported to BioCorp's top-secret Site 18 Research Facility in Serbia.

BioCorp Atrocities

BioCorp kept the diplomats on ice for nearly 45 years at the Site 18 Research Facility, unable to resurrect them, while studying and scanning their bodies to analyse their biology. In 2150, BioCorp experienced a breakthrough with the recent advancements in forcefield technology, allowing them to begin to repair the damage to the diplomats' bodies through an experimental version of the Spatial Cell Control morphological system.

By 2153, the company had in all accounts succeeded in reviving the Ir'vaki. However, they were treated not as diplomats, but as tests subjects. In the subsequent decades, BioCorp cruelly experimented on the diplomats, repeatedly dissecting and repairing their bodies and extracting their genetic material. BioCorp saw boundless profit opportunities in the Ir'vaki biology, which enabled them to develop wetware computing technology by replicating their unique neural architecture and use their bodies' energy-storage capabilities in power systems. In 2159, BioCorp began in vivo experiments with cloned Ir'vaki genetic material, combining Ir'vaki cellular material with entropic radiation from a powerful cavity reactor in attempts to create extremely powerful sapient anomalies. These experiments led to the birth of several anomalies, including Exon.

As they grew, Exon and xer siblings were constantly experimented on and tortured in attempts to understand their psionic abilities. In 2175, Exon, alongside xer fellow test subjects, led a catastrophic containment breach from Site 18 that resulted in the facility's complete destruction. A Calamity Mitigation fireteam, called to the site, fired upon the group, who fought back. Several of the anomalies were killed as they were pursued through the nearby city of Belgrade, causing severe damage to the city. Eventually, they managed to lose the CMI forces, finding temporary sanctuary in east Lithuania. This group is what evolved into the early Anomaly Rights Coalition just a few years later.

Operation Blackwell

After waiting more than 31 years past the expected check-in date with no reply, the Ir'vaki began to express concern that the shuttle might have been destroyed by a manifold distortion field after the situation in the solar system got out of control. In 2146, the Ir'vaki fired a high-energy laser at the Solar System in an attempt to communicate, which reached the system in 2177, and was picked up by a top-secret Anomaly Detection SIGINT base on the surface of Pluto. Raven, which had realised what had happened after raiding BioCorp's Site 18 facility after the incident two years prior, developed a plan to convince the Ir'vaki that manifold distortion in the solar system had in fact destroyed the shuttle, as part of Operation Blackwell.

The full reason for the operation was much more insidious - Raven planned to use the opportunity to establish exclusive communication with the Ir'vaki to prevent the Ir'vaki from sharing information directly with humanity, something that Raven feared would compromise their monopoly on scientific knowledge. After receiving the signal, Raven took five years to build a laser transmitter powerful enough to reach the Ir’vaki homeworlds, only managing to complete it in 2182. However, in 2183, the operation was sabotaged in the first operation of the budding Anomaly Rights Coalition. Infiltrating the base on Pluto, Exon injected evidence of BioCorp's atrocities into the laser transmission. By the time Raven realised, the message was sent, and it was too late.

The Cold Silence

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