On June 29, 1971, two Soyuz astronauts became the first to land on Nox, prepared to survive independently there for several years, perhaps even their entire lives, without ever returning to Earth. Unexpectedly, the Nox inhabitants showed no suspicion or hostility towards the extraterrestrial visitors, instead, they were exceptionally hospitable and welcomed more Earthlings to visit.

Being the first to make friends with extraterrestrials most significantly demonstrated the Union's space superiority. The Entente was forced to continue its competition while simultaneously cooperating with the Union in space. Under the Union's leadership and with the participation of countries worldwide, crucial space infrastructure, including momentum exchange ropes, was built. The foundation stone for Unity City, a space city symbolizing humanity's shared journey towards the future with the Nox inhabitants, was laid in 1975, finally ripening the conditions for large-scale communication between the two planets.

Landing on another habitable planet greatly propelled the evolution of human thought. Against the backdrop of large-scale space cooperation, the Union proposed a new vision for humanity's future, the so-called "Interstellar Phalanstism." This view holds that humanity is irreversibly developing into an interstellar civilization and that the space program, which requires the centralized allocation of vast resources and the construction of complex industrial chains, will promote cooperation among all countries and ethnic groups in the world, ultimately integrating humanity into a unified whole and achieving a utopian society.