"Too bad 21st century telescopes were poorly designed & the supposedly habitable planets found were actually desolate."
Elton Cuauhtemoc John is taken hostage before he can start his dream job. Now, he & a multicultural science team are racing against humans' inevitable self imposed demise to invent an Faster Than Light phone. After all, how useful is another Earth after civilization collapses?
Civilization goes through cycles. Humanity's First Test explores how humans will react to encountering a similarly advanced alien civilization. With a supremely powerful AI predicting world events, humans must navigate through internal struggles, new challenges & interference from a new galactic neighbor. Will we default to old habits of conquest & exploit or will we move beyond to a galactically inclusive society and pass our first test?
