 The original speakers of the language may have also initiated the spread of interstellar technology, but the language seems to have outlived, or at least outstripped its originators.In the 20 years since contact, several expeditions have set out, some in borrowed ships, some in ships built on Earth.The ship "USS Benjamin Franklin", with an all-male crew, set out to visit the core of the Milky Way — actually an unusual quest by the stodgy standards of the typical galactic culture.