SEEDER HYPOTHESIS

            It has been considered that the great abundance of life bearing worlds found throughout federation space is more than just natural coincidence. Many worlds all sport the same oxygen and nitrogen atmosphere, and life that shares many of the same features of biochemistry as our own. The belief is that a truly ancient race, one that must have existed before all these worlds had even coalesced, all those billions of years ago, took part in encouraging their formation.

            It has been gathered from both the pre-transcension records of the Derusai and the old High Council, that they too believed in a similar hypothesis, though they had not found convincing proof, other than the amazing coincidences in the structure of life throughout the galaxy. The name that these old races tentatively described in their hypothesis’ about the abundance of life and life bearing worlds, call them the Seeders.

            A special branch or archaeology looks into the origins of life bearing worlds, and their life-forms from the aspect that they are not spontaneous processes that arise as abundantly as they do. They have uncovered evidence that certain worlds received whole primitive ecologies in a single step, as if worlds with potential for life, but which remained sterile had been seeded. Even within federation space there are many worlds where this has been observed, but no single date has been recovered, it suggests that the seeding process has occurred continuously from over two billion years ago, to only a few million years ago.

            The research also reveals that merely beyond seeding planets with life, they also took a part in creating worlds on which life could form. There are many unusual instances where combinations of worlds have developed and sported life, where the possibility of planets forming in their orbits is highly unlikely. This suggests that as well as dormant worlds being seeded with life, there are also races who moved planets and moons to create worlds for life to flourish on.

            The sum evidence suggests that intelligent races have profoundly shaped the galaxy around us, creating worlds and spreading life. But the evidence also indicates that no singular civilization did this, rather it is a continuous process that continued though to the current day, where the Federation has even taken part in terraforming worlds and spreading life.

            The seeder hypothesis has rather been supplanted with the idea that the kindness to life that the galaxy shows is actually the sign that intelligent life has existed throughout its history, and has left its mark as the worlds which surround us today. It may well be the case that the Federation home world systems were directly emergent from some race ensuring billions of years ago that habitable planets would develop around these young stars.