In a universe where multiple civilizations have learned to coexist under a fragile idea of peace, a group of interstellar researchers embarks on what appears to be a routine mission: to analyze the origins of recent conflicts and contribute to ending a war that threatens to reshape the balance of the galaxy. Yet what begins as an academic investigation soon becomes a deeper exploration of power, memory, and hidden knowledge.

During their travels between star systems, the explorers discover that the official history of the known worlds contains unsettling gaps. Humanity, long believed to be an extinct civilization, left technological, cultural, and scientific traces in far more places than anyone had imagined. Ruins on Earth, records scattered across galactic libraries, cross-referenced archives, and above all, evidence suggesting that humans were the only species ever treated as equals by the mysterious cloaked beings—the oldest and most advanced civilization in the known cosmos.

As they examine temples dedicated to the Core and the seven deities, myths shared between species that should never have encountered one another, and technologies that appear far ahead of their time, the researchers begin to question assumptions that had always been taken for granted: the synchronization of time between planets, the "benevolently" imposed common language, the universal information network managed by the cloaked beings, and a model of structural colonization that—under the discourse of cooperation and technological development—established a quiet influence across every contacted world.

On the planet Disco, home of the thinking machines, they uncover the origins of Mother, a collective intelligence born from collaboration between humans, the cloaked beings, and the Wala-Wolo culture. What seemed to be a simple computational network reveals a history of sentient artificial intelligence, hybrid bodies, pioneering cyborgs, and scientific decisions that redefined the boundary between biology and machine. There they realize that technological development was never linear, but the result of strategic alliances that almost no one remembers today.

But the most disturbing discovery emerges when they find references to an ancient human colony on the ice planet—an installation officially listed as a historical record, yet whose real location appears to be restricted. A protected zone. Advanced human weapons in the hands of cloaked guardians. Security protocols that contradict the peaceful image of a civilization that presents itself as the guarantor of interplanetary stability.

Did humanity truly vanish after a natural or accidental event?
Was it secretly protected?
Or is its absence part of a political decision far more complex than anyone dares to admit?

As the investigation deepens, the explorers realize that the greatest mystery is not technological but structural: who decides what is archived as official truth? What does equality between species truly mean when one of them controls the information network, diplomacy, and access to knowledge? Can peace exist without transparency?

Interstellar Journeys and Myths is a work of adult science fiction that blends space exploration, interstellar mystery, alien contact, advanced artificial intelligence, and philosophical reflection on cultural power and the construction of history. A story where interplanetary cooperation can save civilizations… but may also conceal what should never have been forgotten.

In a universe where everything seems to be recorded, the real question is not what happened to the humans.

It is why no one ever thought to ask.

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