In the beginning,..
Earliest recorded signs of life all date back to just a handful of planets and systems in relatively close proximity to each other, nobody is certain why. These systems in particular were home to the first “ancient civilizations” and are taught about in schools as the beginning of modern life and society. Despite being millennia old, these civilizations could travel between planets before modern warp technology was even conceived, popular opinion among the people who study them is they had their own ancient version of what we’d call a warp drive, but the invention was lost when their society collapsed. It is largely believed that the ancients fell from grace after multiple turned on each other, causing massive wars, that very little data has been gathered from.
For millennia afterward, races grew and evolved on their own planets, some progressing much faster than others, going through each of their own civilizationary progression. The first race of these to reach interstellar travel and develop primitive versions of spacecraft were the canines, growing and evolving on their lush, green forest homeworld of Azimuth, they became the first (relatively modern) multi-planetary civilization.
For millennia afterward, races grew and evolved on their own planets, some progressing much faster than others, going through each of their own civilizationary progression. The first race of these to reach interstellar travel and develop primitive versions of spacecraft were the canines, growing and evolving on their lush, green forest homeworld of Azimuth, they became the first (relatively modern) multi-planetary civilization.