Feb 21th, 2027. A video pops up in the UUM Youtube, a new upload. It surprises everyone, as the UUM youtube is known to be very inactive, with only one video ever, a recording of the first contact meeting. The video they upload is titled 'UUM Anthem', with the description "It has been decided that sharing this music with you, will be good for cultural interactions. Translation of this song has been managed by Worlds of a Feather. This song is similar to your national anthems, but for the UUM. Also it is determined every 50 years, by a multi-civilizational music contest. Where the best song is chosen to be the new anthem for the next 50 years. This was done to represent key parts of UUM philosophy, primarily. 'Change is necessary, helpful, yet dangerous. However, you must grasp change with your hands, and drag it to the extraordinary.' The next contest is scheduled for around 2029 according to your calendar. Quite a coincidence." The video... is a flat screen of the UUM icon... with music. But... the music is lovely, a mix of classical, and hard rock. With aspects of slow melancholy, and hard forcefulness. With lyrics that reflect the UUM's goals, and ideals. It... seems designed to be sung along too.

With themes that everyone starts small. Starts as cosmic dust, and returns to it as well. Yet the only thing you can do is feel, try, and change. Embarrass change, grab change with your bare hands, and drag it to glory, drag it to be 'extraordinary', drag yourself, your civilizations, and more to be 'extraordinary'.

As global opinions continue to be cut, further and further along the dividing line of 'UUM is good, or at least reasonable. Perhaps better than us in some ways.', and 'The UUM is not good, evil, and satanic'. A rather extreme cut, that in truth was still a spectrum as all things are. Thou many noticed voices were getting louder on one side... and more reasonable on the other.

April 9th, 2027. Soon, it's been 8 months since the introduction to the UUM, first official contact, or #FirstContact2026 as everyone called it online. Though many were looking forward to their promoss of Alien Contact, another UN meeting this year. With it being called #AlienContact2027 on twitter, reddit, youtube, and more. As the UUM announces its Q&A, a new tab opens on the website, where you can ask a question. Any question can be asked, but if someone already asked it, the 2 questions will be merged. If 2 questions are related, or nearly the same, both questions will be linked into one large question thread. It's announced that you can vote up or down on every single question thread. But that is all you can do. You can post as many questions as you like, but in 1 week no more questions can be posted. Only the top 250 questions are going to be considered for the 3 documents released, while questions between 250, too 1250 will be ensured by one of the 3 integration personnel, Evtalo, Talax, or Atanda Xtor.

At first glance, people wondered how a single site could handle such a vast onslaught of queries without turning into total chaos. Once they started posting questions, however, the logic of the system revealed itself. If you typed something like "Do you have dogs in the UUM?" while someone else had already asked "What types of pets do you have?" The site seamlessly blended the two inquiries into a single thread titled "What types of pets exist in the UUM?" That thread would then contain variations on the same question, neatly organized. This merging came across as almost magical, as if an invisible moderator was guiding each query to its rightful place. But no actual human mod was credited, at least not among Earth's ranks—everyone assumed it was the UUM's quantum-level software doing the heavy lifting.

The merging system quickly became a point of admiration and confusion. People watched it in real time, testing the edges of its abilities. A group of friends might deliberately post near-duplicate questions to see if they'd merge. Without fail, within seconds, the site combined them into a single node, each variant tucked politely underneath, as though the code had recognized their essential equivalence. A university professor wrote on a blog, "It's as if they distilled each question's essence. Instead of humans adjusting to an algorithm's limitations, the algorithm adapts to the messy reality of human language." In essence, the site was less about pinning questions to a board and more about curating threads of meaning, respecting each user's curiosity while not letting trivial duplicates pile up.

The voting aspect introduced an additional layer of order. Anyone with a verified identity could cast one of three possible votes—up, down, or neutral. The catch was the identity verification process: a camera scan combined with an email address. That camera scan freaked some people out at first, reminiscent of advanced facial recognition. They had seen it before in the contact system for Talax. But the site insisted it was merely to ensure one person, one vote—claiming it compared the user's face to a database that recognized them as a unique individual, using world-wide data gotten from there... uh... hack of the internet. It was found, if you were under 4 years old... it would not work. People debated privacy concerns, but as the UUM had proven more or less unstoppable in everything else, it seemed futile to challenge. After a few minor protests, the global community settled into a cautious acceptance. At least it meant the system couldn't be easily gamed by bots or repeated votes, ensuring that the final ranks reflected genuine human interest.

Discussions about national origin tags also flared up. Each question showed only the country from which it originated, never the user's identity. The result was fascinating: you might see a question like "What do you feed small children in the UUM?" come from South Korea, or "How do you keep cosmic criminals locked up?" posted from Brazil. It offered a subtle insight into the regional backgrounds of question-askers without compromising personal anonymity. Journalists sometimes latched onto a question from a specific region—like a rural area of Kenya or a city in India—and used it to explore the local context. This turned the Q&A into a patchwork quilt of Earth's varied cultures, all weaving their concerns and curiosities into one shared tapestry.

Then there was the matter of question threads that became marked "unmergeable by a Talax." At first, only a handful of people noticed these unmergeable tags. After all, thousands upon thousands of questions were merging seamlessly; it took a keen eye to spot the occasional stray that stood alone. Soon, however, word spread. Screenshots circulated on social media showing short, sometimes silly queries that had the curious note: "This question has been marked unmergeable by a Talax." For instance, someone might spot a question like "Hey Talax, you single?" or "What color is your tail fluff?" and see that mark. It sparked immediate speculation: was Talax simply messing around, protecting certain comedic threads for his own amusement? Or did the question's content genuinely defy the merging logic?

Regardless, the UUM website could be seen anywhere, on any device with a browser. From the tops of mountains, to caves. Due to some weird quantum stuff no one understood yet. Many communities in 3ed world countries surrounded phones, as they voted on them. Each taking turns, scanning their faces, or talking between themselves. Their website autotranslated based on regions, and default language, and more. Resulting in many things, as the world was in awe... that everyone in the world was voting on their most burning questions to aliens beyond us all. Aliens many considered god-like.

Various communities got together to vote for their favorite questions. Scientists for questions like "How do your wormholes work? What are their limits?", or religious for "What do you think of Religion, and how does it fit into the UUM". While such big questions were merged with thousands. As the week ended on April 16th, 2027. All the questions locked in place, with you only being able to look. Not touch. As people considered the results of this. Then... a link showed up to the page... to download 1.8TB of data, that... was all their data. Not anything personal, but mergers, country of origins, questions, date of asking, up votes, down votes, total number of questions, etc.

Answers to questions began to flow in, though the top 250 were ignored for the time being. Each marking who answered it, Evtalo, Talax, or Atanda Xtor. It was a slow trickle, and an entry was marked with a color when it was ensured, and moved to a new section of the website for easy access. When they answered questions in the 1-250 range, it was assumed it was because they would not be included in their detailed documents. As several online communities, and others smiled... as their goals were successes. Sure, they had not memed the entire thing, but they got some funny questions up in there. While others were happy, various major scientific questions made their way in.