KatherineBosco
The war left deep wounds. Peace came hard, and it ruled uneasily. The Malikani and the Wahakani no longer slaughtered each other by the thousands, but they were by no means friends. To encourage dialogue before the bloodshed began again, the leaders of both nations exchanged their children, their rising heroes, to encourage dialogue to salvage the broken planet, and as hostages to insure the peace.
They thought they were alone, the last survivors of the exodus from Earth. They thought the other ships were lost to the vacuum of space. To preserve the species, they sought to fill the divides between them.
They aren't alone.