>>8900985Between forty and fifty thousand each year.
>>8900989The only ones that are really in any sort of communication with each other are the two Gray species. Most are aware of one another's existance, however.
>>8900996The Fives and Sevens had a massive war some 2,000 years ago over control of a large unoccupied star system. They've more or less agreed to stay away from each other's shit since then.
>>8901000Let's see here.
One: Jellyfish-brain-looking aquatic beings
Two: Enormous, pale, peaceful, hairless eighteen-foot apes
Three: Slug-type things kept as pets by Twos
Four: Large masses of rock on Pluto capable of thought
Five: Grays (shorter, show more warlike tendencies, communicate telepathically and verbally)
Six: Large rock-like things with vaguely humanoid faces
Seven: Grays (much taller, more interested in Mengle-like scientific experiments, communicate telepathically)
Eight: Microbe
Nine: Microbe
Ten: Virus (the one that killed off the Twos)
Eleven: Some sort of parasitic, flea-type organism that infested some of the Twos
Twelve: Vaguely octopoid creatures from Ones' homeworld
Thirteen: Large masses of bacteria that become sentient if their combined numbers are great enough
Fourteen: Something that existed underwater a long time ago
Fifteen: Microbe
Sixteen: Virus that Apollo thirteen brought back accidentally (contagious, oddly, only to dogs, at least on Earth)
Seventeen: Microbe
Eighteen: The Mars bacteria I mentioned
Nineteen: Some sort of thing that looks like a sea otter
Twenty: No clue