The Universe is full of people. None of them are who you expect. The Academy has begun the greatest project in Earth's history: to send its Contacters to meet the cultures of other solar systems. The people of Earth have learned to use the Academy's powerful rationalist philosophy to travel the stars. Now they turn that power to the exploration of the galaxy. The time has come to say Hello.
Black Ops Anthropology is what the nice people in Deep Contact call it. But, since the Great Diaspora, when we lost contact with the far flung human colonies in the Galaxy, our method of re-establishing contact has been re-defined and refined. You are equipped and ready. Time to say: 'Hello' to our missing cousins.