I'd love to think that some race or other has managed to cross the void to our little backwoods planet; occasionally, when the mood strikes me, I might entertain the thought that they have and the X-Files are fact instead of made up. Just for a bit of escapist distraction, you understand, a sort of 'what if?'. Unfortunately, having some little knowledge of astronomy, I know the obstacles involved are just too overwhelming, at least in any feasible sense, in fact they may be insurmountable. Distance is only part of the problem: it takes light itself about four years to get here from our second-nearest star. Most stars, including other neighbouring stars, are vastly more distant.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
