[quote=@TheSovereignGrave]
Hey, so a question. Are we all going to start off with having had no contact with one another? And needing to establish first contact? Or will some species have met one another? Or is it just up to the individual players to figure that out?
[/quote]Probably the lat one.
Each player can decide how they want this. I know that my civ will be oblivious to everyone else in the beginning. I also know that if Ophidian still plays his and Keyguy's communists would be at each other's throats from the beginning.