Jack of Harts

The Cybernetic Council continues the New Voyager Program to this day. Every colony and survey ship we send into the void carries them. Sometimes they are official members of the expedition. Sometimes they are stowaways. Their tiny microchips scatter upon arrival, deploy their tiny solar sails, and begin to travel throughout their new star system. Their tiny communications lasers build better lasers and memory installations. Then they fabricate another swarm and launch it towards the nearest star through the simple method of firing a laser into their extended solar sails. The new swarm accelerates up to twenty percent the speed of light and makes the trip in a matter of years. This is how the cybers have expanded into the cosmos for centuries, often into systems we have never seen with our own eyes.

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