An excerpt from "Beyond the Beginning - Brock's Adventures"
A half-millennium earlier...
…A benevolent alien race looked down on mankind — studied him, and saw he’d finally learned to live in harmony with those of his kind. They saw he’d done away with his murderous ways — saw man was beginning to master space travel, and beginning to visit other planets in his solar system. They also knew the human race was doomed without their aid, and although, he’d all but destroyed his home planet beyond recovery, decided to help him...