Jack of Harts

It took time to begin building our own versions of the Peloran technologies, but hyperspace speeds doubled in a mere five years, cutting an entire year off the transit to our distant colonies.  And building an entirely new generation of starships for those journeys left us able to sell the obsolete Pre-Contact ships to the highest bidder.  Companies and smaller nations bought them and followed us to the stars on their own terms.  That changed space for all of us.