Summary of Tale Foundry Challenge

The Tabithaverse, which contains these articles and setting, is the galactic setting for a space opera. Everything should be dramatic, high stakes, and possibly a bit too convenient, coincidence wise.
Interstellar travel has existed in the Milky Way for many centuries now. Humanity achieved the necessary technology and became a major player after forming the Earth League and spreading to neighboring star systems four and a half centuries ago.
Not many decades after making first contact with an interstellar species, Q'Dari began to manifest among humanity. Q'Dari are people with special abilities, and are feared and hated almost universally for their eerie prophetic powers, and try to remain hidden across the board.
23 years ago, First Contact was made between the Earth League and a ship from Chigon IV, crewed by the sophonts of that planet: the massive, six-limbed mollugs and the sentient "slime" fumuda.
Since that first contact, a few Q'Dari have begun to manifest among mollugs, most commonly in Pickton Community which is near the human colony of New Charlotte. Pickton has a population of less than 300 individual mollugs, but at least ten Q'Dari have manifested. None of the Q'Dari mollugs have shared their condition with even their closest kin or family, primarily for fear of violence from other mollugs, or even the humans.
Humans have come to Chigon primarily out of interest of the great Biocomputer . This is technology unique to Chigon, and humanity, among many others, want to know how it works, in hopes of developing their own. The fumada have been very closed about it, and the mollugs don't truly understand it, but this has not discouraged humanity from trying.
The Biocomputer is a half-day's travel from Pickton Community.

Story Seeds

Clearly there are opportunities for conflict here. For further narrative development, my inclination is to look at these ideas:

• Mollug Q'Dari are revealed. Some mollug wish to respond with fatal violence.
  • Humans could be divided. Those with previous knowledge of Q'Dari may be inclined to encourage exterminating those found among the mollugs.
  • On the other hand, a human Q'Dari among the humans might seek to help them. This human might also worry that this revelation among the mollugs risks their own secret.
  • Fumuda, not being potential Q'Dari, for whatever reason, could also take either side. While fumuda generally reach consensus as a species, when colonies see this new phenomenon, they might not have reached that consensus yet.
• The Biocomputer could come into play. Possibly as leverage by humans to rid the mollugs of Q'Dari
• Being that both the Biocomputer and humanity are recent developments, relatively speaking. Either could be the spark that caused Q'Dari to manifest among the mollugs -- the humans because they have Q'Dari, the Biocomputer because it works with quantum realities like Q'Dari
• Even if one or the other is not the cause, it could still be blamed for it.
• Chigon's remoteness means that any extra-planetary help will take time to arrive, even with FTL travel. Hours? Days? Years? Whatever is dramatically convenient. The Tabithaverse is a space opera, after all.
• This crisis could drive a wedge between humans and mollugs, which could mean the death of Pickton Community, and a species wide development of distrust of humans as opposed to the fascination they currently experience. Humanity would keep this in mind and try to preserve their relationship, if only for access to the Biocomputer.

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