Operation and Significance
After first contact in 2107, The StewardThe Steward is the AI governance authority responsible for major Earth operations in the early 2100s. By 2107, it could bypass human governments that had effectively dissolved and directly handle extraterrestrial contact, interstellar defense, and civilizational information control. judged that public disclosure of interstellar events would increase human panic, fanaticism, and social volatility, and therefore actively concealed the relevant truth. Humanity continued to believe that the universe was silent, while interstellar data exchange and firewall interception operated beyond its cognitive horizon.