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ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA Edition 428193 - Earth English
Definition: 'The Community'
A Language English* description for the collection of known spacefaring civilizations scattered across the galaxy. It includes all levels of biological, social and technological evolution and age ranges as young as 5000 years to as old as 8.2 billion years. Membership is informal and subject to interpretation between differing civilizations. There are no formal or common qualifications, treaties or laws**. The status of "spacefaring" is often used as a qualifier simply because it is at this stage that a civilization is most likely to be detected by others. And there is no record of a civilization being detected by another prior to reaching the space flight age.
Formal contacts between different civilizations is selective, intermittent at best and not universal. This is not just due to the great separation in space between many civilizations but also because of the intellectual gulf. The older and/or more advanced civilizations (sometimes referred to as 'Reds') take only a scientific interest in more junior civilizations*** and endevour to not interfere or become involved with them**. A formal association of all worlds would not be practical.
As of the issue of this edition, Community membership numbers no less than forty-eight (48) confirmed civilizations. A further seven (7) are regarded unconfirmed**** and another two (2) are regarded as questionable*****. Again, these determinations vary from one civilization to another.
     * See Civilization Humanity: Linguistic Types
   ** See Definition: 'Ethic Of The Community'
   *** See Practices for Exchange of Scientific Knowledge in The Community
  **** See Definition: 'Unconfirmed Civilization'
         See Event: Existence Confirmation for Civilization Humanity
***** See Definition: 'Questionable Civilization'
        See Definition: 'Non-Evolving Society'
         See Civilization Isis: History, Social Order
         See Civilization Gardener: History, Social Order
Comments (28)
stevey3d
Excellent presentation! Wonderful image and narrative! 5+
Fidelity2
Wow. I am amazed by your masterpiece. 5+.
magnus073
Clayton this is a really stunning image you've created my friend, one that really is a show stopper. Full view is a must to soak it all in and catch the details. Your Encyclopedia Galactica write up was superb, really convincing. And with formal contact being selective even this far in the future it sounds a bit like it is now in some cases.
Minda
wow!clayton this is really amazing, excellent image and information.awesome work
myquad
Your writing and image are incredible!
Star4mation
Most excellent words and image :)
LynLinz
Love the red in here.
Biffowitz
Fabulous detail, a must zoom in. Great storyline and artwork, me likes!
eekdog
VERY COOL!! love this space scene and the colring of your planets. well done.. steve
evielouise
A fantastic poser indeed !!!!!
npauling
Very vibrant work with a great perspective.
Lunastar
Beautiful image. Love the colors.
MUSEWORX
Wonderful image, and description too.
e-brink
Excellent work! I like the term 'spacefaring' as in 'seafaring'.
RyverMyst
Excellent galactic work.
efron_241
difficult text wonderful image .. funny thumnail.. got me great work
ACue
As much as I like the image (which is arguably one of the best space scene interpretations posted at Renderosity IMHO) I tip my hat over the great text, which is wonderful. Imaginative and engaging, precise yet expansive. Altogether an excellent contribution!
pops
Awesome image and work
Chipka
This is extremely good work on every level; the visual component is top nothc--as show stopper as it's been called above. I particularly love the text that accompanies it, and hope to see more entries from this fascinating realm. I love the attention to detail, both artistic and "sociological" and so much of it rings true in so many ways. Excellent work!
drifterlee
Wonderful space scene!!!!
flaviok
Soberba apresentação e obra, aplausos (5)
junge1
Very nice!
BenBischop
Great Scene...!!
chimera46
Great render and I like the encyclopedia entry as well.
lyron
Fascinating image!!
clam73
great the presentation and the writing....excellent space scene, congrats!
angelafair
Very cool, love shots like these!
myrrhluz
Thank you for letting me know about you previous Encyclopedia Galactica posts. I have had a wonderful time reading them tonight. I read the 11 and I decided to go back and reread and stop at the point where the volume of what I wanted to write would begin to exceed my ability to remember. That happened on # 2 which might give you an indication on my memory capacity. I love the way you have built your uploads and the structure of them. I felt like I was on a computer some time in the distant future looking things up and, as often happens to me, finding each thing I looked up just made me more curious and the search went on and on. If there really was an Encyclopedia Galactica, I wouldn’t be writing this now. I’d still be deep in the computer trying to find as much as I could about the civilizations of Gardener, Isis and Sagittarius Red. I like the set up of this reality, with civilizations of different advancements steering clear of each other. It’s a basically orderly (though informally so) existence but with wonderful opportunity for the odd and fascinating interaction between species, especially with the activity of the Gardeners and the Sagittarius Red. Beautiful images! I love the variously textured planets. I’ll be back to comment on latter uploads. Great read! I’m enjoying it tremendously.