Jack of Harts

By 2205 human scouts had traveled over one hundred lightyears from Earth. We had settled dozens of star systems as far out as thirty lightyears. We knew if we ever made Contact with aliens it would be out on the frontiers when our starships met them. It was a matter of faith to us, never questioned because anything else was unthinkable. We were an interstellar species. We would meet others in interstellar space. Then the Peloran made Contact with a British destroyer. Inside the Terran star system.