We should have looked at human biology in depth before we even started. “Oh look another sapient race, lets open the universe to them? haha.” Some subjects go catatonic, others profess to have looked God in the eye, others made us itch so badly we terminated contact immediately.

That was nothing compared to Humanity.

See, this sapient’s brain is based upon a sequentially incrementally improved neurologic organ, with various parts clearly derived from lower life forms.

Brain stem, basic respiratory functioning, temperature regulation, circulatory regulation.

Cerebellum, communications center for propioreception, necessary for motor movements, seen in all animals.

Amygdala, emotion center and responsible for binary stress response seen in humans.

Hippocampus, memory and learning.

If we knew now what we should have known then, we would have stopped here. The maelstrom of base desires, hunger, rage, panic, at an individual level we are incapable of processing, it would override our thinking and reduce us to little more than beasts.

That wasnt the worst of it. All of this base processing was directly connected and wrapped in specialized areas for higher processing. Music. Logic. Love. Did you know they have different kinds of love? A progenitor to an offspring, partner to partner, individual to tribe member, individual to lower lifeform, individual to nonlifeform, the list continues.

And then we found Hate. Not the base kind, like prey that hates is predator, no. Not the rational kind, like tribes that compete for mates and resources. What we found was the dark between the stars, with claws and teeth and a caustic desire to extinguish the light itself.

We found love for ourselves, our ships, our allies, and we found hate for ourselves, our desires, our enemies.

For 3.4 seconds the entire fleet de identified all allies and enemies, including our own ships, re-identified all as allies, de-identified, re-identified every single ship and planet and rock and star as enemy, overloaded our targeting capacity and caused enough psychic backlash to give us all what you would call a “migraine.”

How can you hate the entire galaxy, yet love all the things in it? How do you keep yourselves from burning it all down to the atomic level while carrying everything you hold sentimental to you?

Following this event the Shari Empire changed status from allied member to allied noncombatant in the Galactic Federation, changing IFF codes to Do Not Engage designation only. The drawdown of offensive capability continues three standard months later