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A conventionally-powered cryo-colony ship of Human design makes it to its destination, a Mythic planet that they had communicated with previously via radio waves. Together, the races develop hybrid magic/technology devices, the most notable of which is the BioWarp engine, which allows for quick movement between star systems by using magic to bend the area of the space-time directly ahead of the ship to make time there pass more quickly, but only relative to the localized area. The practical benefit of this is that the ship moves through the rest of the galaxy thousands of times faster than with their conventional drives alone, but still moves at normal speeds as far as the ship itself is concerned, making micrometeors less likely to tear up a ship. The BioWarp drives are manned by one or more BioWarp mages, who funnel magical energy into the drive through nodes in their stations on the ship.

These ships spread quickly through the galaxy, mapping over Four Hundred inhabited planets in an area equalling roughtly 60 percent of the entire galaxy, and introducing the BioWarp technology to other civilizations. The Humans and Mythics that discovered the technology form the Golden Alliance, and become the primary ruling body in the "civilized" sectors of the galaxy.