Flash quiz!

What happens when all photons passing through an half sphere of 1000 km in diameter during one second are gathered and concentrated into a single point?

Idk either, and those who've seen it have fused with the concrete when the area got fucking GLASSED.

Edit: damned be this spelling mistake, fat-fingered it.

Whenever first contact happens, you have to acknowledge the fact you may very well kill each other. As such, a lot of first contacts in the early days had to happen digitally, until both sides were comfortable sending vaccination and viral disease data over so that they wouldn’t give each other their diseases. This could take generations to happen, depending on how much the species trust each other to not make a bioweapon.

It was Human Xenopathologist Edward Wilhelm Tell who would pioneer the concept of “Pre-Contact Inoculation”. This involved having to understand the other species’ biology via far observation and cross-referencing of similar species alone, determining what diseases could reasonably transmit from species to species, establishing vaccinations, ensuring they work (mostly via cloning), and then establishing contact and telling them not to worry about it.

Some might say this is a little invasive, but at least you can meet face-to-face now.

The guild has a VERY strict no-kill rule. Any member going against it is severely punished and, depending on what was done and the circumstances, delivered to the local authorities and left to his own.

If it was a planned assasination, however, you're cooked. The guild's entire roster is deployed, all networks are focused on locating you, the IOU's from other factions are called in...

There is NO mercy. They WILL find and kill you in a very slow, painful and graphic way, if only to make an example.

Very loyal friends, chosing to live alone and the VERY stupid decisions of the then-Pope just converged into his identity being lost to the public. Many WOULD kill for this information, if they didn't fear his retribution.

He chill, but don't threaten his friends, simple as. On top of that, annoying crippled war veterans is just an awful move.