Will Other Earth-Like Worlds Ever Have Space-Faring Civilizations?

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Civilizations. Civilizations everywhere.

Think we'll ever be out exploring and come up to an ELW that has a few satellites, maybe a primitive space station? Who determines when "first contact" should take place? Would the explorer get the opportunity to say "Hi. We're from SOL and ...."

May be way to premature to ask, but the thought just popped into my head.
 

Adhock

A
That is the hope that we'll see that in the future once atmo and space legs are implimented.

After all, the Empire and Federation clashed in the distant past over the issue of the Empire exterminating the sentient alien life on their capital world when the Feds told them not to.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
If other spacefaring civilizations (besides the Thargoids) exist in-game, I would assume they are hidden inside the permit-locked sectors, specifically so that we don't accidentally stumble upon them "before we're ready".

Still, many explorers do go to the trouble of flying around the ELWs they discover, looking for lights on the night-side like you can see on the inhabited planets inside the Bubble.

Another tip-off that you might be in or near the space of an alien civilization is the mineral content of the planets you're exploring; if you ever see anything other than "pristine" anywhere out there far beyond human space, that's a sign that some other civilization has been mining those planets.
 

PiggyPiggyPig

PiggyPiggyPig
Leadfoot said:
Civilizations. Civilizations everywhere.

Think we'll ever be out exploring and come up to an ELW that has a few satellites, maybe a primitive space station? Who determines when "first contact" should take place? Would the explorer get the opportunity to say "Hi. We're from SOL and ...."

May be way to premature to ask, but the thought just popped into my head.
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Do you mean in-game or real world ?
 

Riverside

Riverside
The chances of another technological civilisation being around in the same epoch as us is pretty low. This is the idea behind the Guardians, they were around before we were & now we only see their ruins.

One day another civilisation will find ours ;)
 

rhiz

rhiz
Not if the Fermi Paradox is anything to go by. The Great Filter = they grow tired of the thankless, monotonous and meaningless grind of existence and throw themselves into the nearest Black Hole en masse.
 
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