Aliens

The concept of Aliens first originated in the Roman world, as anyone deemed to be completely foreign to the Romans might be have been referred to as a 'barbarian' or 'alien'. In later times, the concept came to mean foreign citizens, while as of around the 20th Century, with an overt increase in the study of extraterrestrial life, people came to refer to a life-form from without Earth, as an 'alien'. The term alien has also popularly mostly been reserved for intelligent or humanoid extraterrestrial life.

First Contact
Despite a long standing search for aliens, the first encounters humans had with extraterrestrial life was in the form of microbes, flora and fauna as present on the planet Terranova, in the 23rd century.

Subsequent colonization discovered a whole range of life-forms, of animal and vegetable nature as being present on many planets.

The first 'First Contact' of the inhabitants of Earth with a humanoid life-form came in 2380, when the first transmission was received from the planet Tangiers. The transmission read ''“Greetings, people of Earth, from the People of Tangiers. We are the settlers and owners of the planet Tangiers, which is known to you as HD 14481. We wish you peace and prosperity in your endeavours, and wish to meet you, in order to conclude beneficial treaties between our planets. Our ambassador shall shortly be arriving to Nilbridge C to enter diplomatic dialogue.” ''

Unbeknownst at the time was the fact that the Tangerians were in fact humans, that had colonized the planet autonomously, in some unknown time, but according to them, they had all along been seeking contact with the Earth. Soon after the two civilizations' encounter, they began a prosperous exchange of technologies and material, but the epithet of aliens was one that would increasingly be used to denote extraterrestrial humans, as well as unknown beings.

The Anti-Alien League
The Anti-Alien League, or AAL is a xenophobic organisation, operating on Earth since the early 26th Century. Its ethics are those of aggressive rhetoric towards non United Nations worlds, and outer worlds' inhabitants. The main propagandist theories being proposed are those of the cultural and de-facto domination of Earth over extraterrestrial worlds, and a demand for greater authority of terrestrials over politics in the greater community of the Worlds of Man.