After the Besananta left its home universe in an attempt to explore the
bulkverse, those left behind eagerly awaited their return. They waited, and
they waited, and still no one came back. They tried looking for data that the
ship might have sent, or that a probe picked up at some point, but there was
nothing conclusive. As far as they could tell, the mission was a huge failure.
There were some theories, like that travel outside of a brane was possible,
but back into one was impossible. However, signals could clearly penetrate the
membrane, so that didn’t seem too likely. Perhaps the destination universe was
so amazing that the crew decided to stay there, and forget about everyone
else. That seemed strange too. They might have encountered some terrible
threat that forced them to cut off all contact with Infiniverse. That wasn’t
entirely unbelievable, but in the end, these theories didn’t really matter.
They had no way of knowing how the mission turned out. Did they make it to
another universe? If so, why did they not return? The chances were too high
that the ship didn't survive, for one reason or another. They decided to stay,
and never try again. Answering those questions weren’t going to do them any
good. Just because they could tell that other universes existed, didn’t mean
that they were any good, or worth traveling to. They didn’t find any other
life here, so they were going to have to make do. That was what they did. They
chose to expand back out into the stars, so that before too long, aliens did
exist, because a civilization that started from a colony a thousand years ago
was no more similar to them than one that had evolved on its own. Here they
remained for the rest of the age of their universe. Some cultures died out,
while others thrived, while more rose up. This was the way things were
supposed to be. People weren’t really ever meant to explore the bulkverse at
all. It wasn’t designed for travel, which is why it was such a fluke. The
Infiniversals just had to recognize this truth.
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