Translations:Codex: Gryvain/23/en

While the gryvain were constrained to their home system for over a thousand years after achieving space flight, they nevertheless developed highly advanced starships — rivaling that of the U.G.C. Fleet — for use within their territory, though largely of a mercantile or scientific role. When a Warp Gate first arrived in the gryvain’s system, they were given several decades to study the device and prepare their defenses for alien contact: when the first Confederate scouts poured through the gate during the 10th Great Planet Rush, they were met head-on by a fleet of converted warships, as well as a large and heavily militarized space station that had been hastily constructed at the nearest Lagrange point. Thankfully, both the Confederacy and Republic desired peace, and the tense First Contact was resolved through diplomacy rather than force of arms.