In a span of several hours, Casella and Imon Ingvar's impression of the Red Ocean had completely changed.
Just like many other humans, the pair of siblings completely dismissed the threat of alien civilizations.
They thought that the indigenous alien races were weaker because the Big Two easily rolled them over and because they emerged from a smaller and weaker dwarf galaxy.
Perhaps this was true, but that didn't mean that the major alien races were pushovers!
There was one aspect about the phase whale race that had a profound influence on the alien civilizations of the Red Ocean.
The phase whales invented the most popular means of FTL travel in the dwarf galaxy. The warp drive as humanity has labeled it allowed them to travel to different star systems. After translating the biological tech into a mechanical form, the warp drive eventually spread and passed onto many of the other sentient alien races.