Apart from the Angelics, the Andromedan race are the ET's I work most closely with. Maelto was my first Androme contact and is of the Oriental-looking race of Andromes. Aron (pronounced Ay ron) is Jmmanuel's right hand man on the ship. He became my surrogate second father after my dad died. He's also my ET languages instructor. Achille (pronounced Ah kill) is Aron's son. He and I work closely together doing the "event planning" on the ship - organizing star nations meetings and other diplomatic functions, crew social activities, etc.
Aron's partner is Adelinna and Achille's older sister is Ahlihanna. All but Ahlihanna live on the ship.
The people from the Andromedan Galaxy are not called "Andromedans". They're called "Andromes" (pronounced And row mees).
The Andromes reside in the Andromedan Galaxy, which is the closest galaxy to our own, only 2.5 million years away. It contains at least a trillion stars but earth scientists have only discovered and confirmed one planet, which they named PA-99-N2. Of course, the Andromes have their own names for their planets.
This is a very accurate account of Andromeda Galaxy history:
In reality there are several inhabited planets in the Andromeda Galaxy and they told me there were 135 billion people (ET's) living in the 8 closest galaxies to earth alone.
The Andromes are those most like us even though their technology is about 4,500 years ahead of Earth's. What surprised me was that their homes look remarkably similar to our 1980's homes!
The landscape of their planets are very similar to those of Earth, with mountains, forests, rivers, etc.
They do not count years in 365 days as we do on Earth. According to different extraterrestrials, one year is a time when every cell in their body duplicates itself, and it takes around 34 years. True. When I first met Ahlihanna and Achille they were children yet they told me in their years they were in their 80's and 90's.
The Andromes have a mix of at least 29 different races in their galaxy. Maelto is of their Asian-looking race, from which Earth Asian races came. Aron and Achille are blue skinned Andromes but there's also white skinned Andromes. Their planet Dakota is home to what we'd call Native Americans. They even have an aquatic race as many ET races do. The aliens in the movie Avatar were based on another Androme blue skinned race that have pointed ears.
Andromes come in all sizes, the average being 4 feet to 8 feet tall.
Contact with the Andromes has been supported by numerous photos, films and eyewitness testimonies that have been thoroughly documented in Sean David Morton's book The Man Who Fell From Earth.
The Andromedan Council has ordered all extraterrestrial presences on the earth, in the earth and on the moon (benevolent or not) to be exiled as soon as possible.
If you'd like to read an interesting book about how the Andromes and terrestrial humans are working together, read Secret Vows - Our Lives With Extraterrestrials by Bert and Denise Twiggs.
So much genetic tinkering has gone on out in the cosmos among ET races that their own DNA has become so degraded many races (Like the Zeta Reticulans) can no longer reproduce anymore. In the case of the Andromes, birth defects began showing up in their children for the first time ever.
A consensual breeding program was established between the Andromes and humans here, using our DNA to correct the birth defects in the Androme babies. The Twiggs were part of that consensual breeding program. It's an interesting read!
The Andromes have no financial system whatsoever. They all work together freely to support all members of their society and ensure everyone has what they need to thrive, as is the case with most ET races.
Walk into the equivalent of a grocery store in the Andromeda Galaxy and you take a levitating 'grocery cart', go through the store and get what you need, then go to a 'checkout' where a clerk inventories what you've taken so they know what they need to keep the store stocked. You walk out paying nothing for your groceries. No one hoards, there's no reason to.
Like all benevolent ET races, the Andromes do not have religion. They do not worship any "God". They call the Creator Source "Isness" and respect it but don't worship it.
Every so often they hold a kind of 'flea market/carnival' to show their respect to the Isness, during which time they restock their stores. Everyone displays their items they've made or services they have to offer - all of which are free. You just go around this festival and get what goods or services you might need.
One of the items that really caught my interest was the moving energy sculptures that play music, made by Androme artists.
Although artists here have begun getting into kinetic sculptures (as seen at left) we have nothing as elaborate as what the Androme artists create out of pure energy.
At this festival they also have something similar to our carnivals. The Androme kids managed to get me onto one of their Skycycles for a ride.
We have nothing even similar, the photo below is as close as I could come to giving you a visual of what a Skycycle looks like.
It does have wheels so you can ride it on the ground. The kids who were riding them would run it for a bit on the ground then take off much like a plane would.
You do wear a gravity belt riding these things in case you fall off because they reach a pretty good speed and height when airborne.
I have to admit riding one was a heck of a lot of fun.
Do the Andromes have animals on their planet? Yes. Some of them are similar to our own. For example they have horses but they're smaller than our horses. They also have some animals the likes of which we've never seen before. One of them I call the Puppy Dog Worm. (They do have a name for it in their language but I forget what that word is.)
My sketch of a puppy dog worm
These puppy dog worms are just the cutest thing ever. They grow to be no longer than 6" long, have segmented bodies like a worm does, have hair like a caterpillar and their head is just like a puppie's head.
They act and make sounds just like puppies do! When I was on the Androme biosphere all of the kids seemed to have them, these puppy dog worms would ride around on the kids' shoulders.
The Andromes are huge animal lovers. They routinely pick up injured and dying animals from Earth and rehabilitate them on their biospheres.
Once they get over their profound fear of us, I found the Andromes to be extremely loving. However, it's important one keep their emotions in check when with them as the unpredictability of our human emotions scares the bejesus out of them.
I also made the mistake of allowing my teeth to show when I smiled at an Androme woman I was meeting for the first time. Maelto had to explain to her that did not mean I was preparing to EAT HER.
We have a horrible reputation among the Andromes as violent, barbaric cannibals. As we have more contact with them they're beginning to realize the majority of us aren't that way...but building their trust in us is a slow process. Moral of the story: Tread lightly in dealing with the Andromes until they get to know you.
To say hello to an Anrome you'd say "Acharaya" - Pronounced Ah cha rye ah.
Achille
Aron
Maelto