“Too bad 21st century telescopes were poorly designed & the supposedly habitable planets found were actually desolate.” Elton Cuauhtemoc John is taken hostage before he can start his dream job. Now, he & a multicultural science team are racing against humans’ inevitable self imposed demise to invent a Faster Than Light phone. After all, how useful is another Earth after civilization collapses? Civilization goes through cycles. Humanity’s First Test explores how humans will react to encountering a similarly advanced alien civilization. With a supremely powerful AI predicting world events, humans must navigate through internal struggles, new challenges & interference from a new galactic neighbor. Will we default to old habits of conquest & exploit or will we move beyond to a galactically inclusive society and pass our first test?