

Certain historians describe this event as an end to the collective childhood of humanity, though a less romantic perspective might reason that the majority of human population and industry was almost certainly off-world and increasingly out-of-system anyway.

It allows one to point and say that yes, right then is when it all changed. This author will concede that, like stories of the first rockets to escape Old Earth’s gravity, it possesses the mythological resonance of a sort of threshold of history. “The Luddics make a great fuss about the significance of the devastation of Old Earth. First wave of sub-FTL autonomous probes, sporeships, seedships dispatched (none of which have reached the Persean Sector).Development of first starships, cryosleep technology.The Reenactor’s Visual Guide to Pre-FTL Culture (TriMedia Store) Old Earth cast out its dissidents, its unruly dreamers, its fanatics, and its utopian ideologues in those first leaking starships to build societies fitting their dreams – and sometimes their nightmares. The era of the sub-FTL expansion to the first neighbouring star systems is rife with legend and half-truth, but those insular cultures scattered and mutated, cut off from Old Earth, and created a flowering of unique worlds.” They looked out to the stars beyond and wondered what could be there and who would be the first to go. In the planets and moons above they found unimagined wealth, and with it built the first cities and ships worthy of those names. “Then, in fits and starts, humanity lifted itself on flimsy hand-engineered craft set atop crude explosives. The Hopeless Fool’s Holo History part 1 (narration by the author) I won’t waste your time, we’ll jump right over to the good stuff.” “Anything that happened before interstellar civilization is only interesting to weird old scholars and Luddics who go on about the sins of this and that. We have good statistics which demonstrate that a steady grounding in the present historical context helps cryo-recovered subjects re-integrate with society in 78.3% of cases. Your eye movements will trigger text navigation so you don’t have to move your variably atrophied limbs – hope you didn’t go with the cheap model cryotank! Sit back, and please pay attention. In the meantime, we’ve prepared a little primer to help catch you up on what’s been going on in the local volume. You don’t have to answer now, we’ll give you a bit to think it over.

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It may seem like a bit of a mess, but you should count your lucky stars: you haven’t been carved up for spare parts by some pirate! On a related note, you are going to need credits to put toward interest on the Recovery Installment Plan which has already been attached to your genecode, so let’s introduce the thought that you may indeed wish to sell a kidney, most of your liver, or a surprising amount of skin with very little harm to normal biological function – provided you pass the rad screening, of course. Sorry, and welcome to the Persean Sector! You’ve got a lot of catching up to do. So you’ve just been hauled out of cryosleep, your quiet journey through space interrupted after a couple hundred cycles drifting along to a Better Place.
