Human

Humans are one of the newest races to become a Commonwealth Associate Race. Humanity is represented by the Terran Alliance. The Alliance is the governing body and military of the human homeworld, Earth. Humans developed distortion drive in earth year 2128. Taking less than 200 years to go from having just developed fusion, to having the ability to travel between stars (slowly).

The theodarans detected the use of distortion drive by a new race, and unlocked the tachyon gate to Sol. After the unlocking of the Sol gate, a theodaran first contact ship, the Athemas made the journey to Sol. After arriving in the home system of humanity, the Athemas was greeted by a fleet of human ships studying the tachyon gate, which was previously undetectable.

The Athemas initially instilled great fear into the human fleet. Because the theodarans would have to let their universal translation systems adapt to the human languages, they couldn't tell the human fleet their intentions. After several hours of the Athemas eavesdropping on the human communications, they contacted the human fleet; making them aware of galactic civilization, and offered the humans a position as an associate race in the Commonwealth.

It took Alliance leadership months to decide on the issue of joining the Commonwealth, but after almost a year of deliberation, the Terran Alliance accepted the invitation to the Commonwealth.