The Opening of the Ways Between Realms after they had been closed for so long was not the sort of thing that any government could reasonably miss, and barely the sort of thing that you could keep a lid on. This is not the story of that chaotic first contact between worlds, nor the relatively more sedate and mediated second contact. Instead, we open on the Summit where worlds first formally forge relations going forward.

The summit room is a featureless, cavernous hemisphere filled with the bare basics of a conference table, electricity, light and internet infrastructure back to the various worlds expected to attend. It's far from perfect. People still occasionally phase in and out with little warning. The main Schelling Point is that the local physics is unusually Friendly to the widest possible range of physics from other worlds. The attendees shouldn't have any surprises on that front, at least.

The Opening of the Ways Between Realms after they had been closed for so long was not the sort of thing that any government could reasonably miss, and barely the sort of thing that you could keep a lid on. This is not the story of that chaotic first contact between worlds, nor the relatively more sedate and mediated second contact. Instead, we open on the Summit where worlds first formally forge relations going forward.

The summit room is a featureless, cavernous hemisphere filled with the bare basics of a conference table, electricity, light and internet infrastructure back to the various worlds expected to attend. It's far from perfect. People still occasionally phase in and out with little warning. The main Schelling Point is that the local physics is unusually Friendly to the widest possible range of physics from other worlds. The attendees shouldn't have any surprises on that front, at least.