Along came Pollanians

One fine day the world woke to find their greatest question being answered. We were not alone in the universe after all. However, there was no invasion like the movies generally depicted. It was more like their ambassador contacting Earth governments and asking for trade opportunities.

So what did this space travelling race from light-years away want to trade in. What else, it was the teleportation device technology. The Earth governments were perplexed and decided to join forces in light of this new revelation.

Things happened very quickly, too quickly for some smaller governments. The UN was given more power and a new body UNCETT (United Nations Council for Extra Terrestrial Trade) was formed for all trade with the aliens. The earth security was increased primarily to check any illegal trade between any government and the aliens. A world army UEF (United Earth Forces) was initiated and very quickly it absorbed a major portion of the unemployed population.

UNCETT decided to negotiate trade in such way that it retained the technology and sold the device on per unit basis. This also meant establishing service department that would go to the alien planet for installation and servicing. An agreement on the IP protection was reached with these good hearted aliens. In return the Pollanians gave us the hyper space drives, which we started incorporating in our space ships. They also provided us the map of all known inhabited planets and allowed us to enter the trade federation of planets.

Our confinement to Earth had finally ended and the teleportation device became our claim to fame in the galaxian community. A new saga for Earth had started as the tryst with the teleportation invention ended.