Beginning (MALA prologue.1.0)

The Denizens of the Awaldhana Star System receive a series of strange transmissions from a distant Galaxy know as the Doodhiya (we call it the Milky Way).

The transmissions received, though in a primitive digital imaging format, are difficult to decipher. The voiceover seems to be in a 2D language, which is purely vertical with no horizontal modulation whatsoever.

The Images are also and incoherent mix of obviously different sequences involving obsolete technologies and aggressive behaviors and do not seem to convey and specific meaning. After months of working on trying to make sense of the transmissions a team of scientists are able to confidently say that:

“… This is not an attempt at communication, rather some kind of long distance mass-communication stream, on route for redistribution through an orbital, which missed its target (probably during alignment) and somehow survived the long journey across space without much signal loss.”

Convinced that it’s not an attempt contact them, the transmissions are then handed over to Archeologists and Psycho-Historians to study the odd primitive society represented in the transmissions.

Acmov Issasi a prominent psycho-historian deduced from the sequences that:

“The images show an elaborate sport being played on and under the liquid surface, on the solid surface and in various levitated states.”

He went on to say that it was apparently a team sport where the objective was to both defend and attack whenever the chance arose. As he outlined his interpretation of the sequences and his reconstruction of the rules and terms of the sport a mummer of excitement rose even amongst the normally contemptuous scientific community.

Seeing the enthusiasm the High Council (who were observing the proceedings) ordered the computers to create a visual interpretation of his words. What they saw was exhilarating.

They ordered the Sport to be adopted and propagated.