Jack of Harts

Our first century of exploration into the stars was performed by starships that took years to build and years to travel between the stars. Our colonies were distant islands in a sea of infinite black that were lucky to receive messages from Earth or other colonies every few years. Some were out of contact for decades. They were isolated from Earth and their home societies in ways that few humans had been in centuries. While our three branches of humanity continued to compete with each other in our race to the galaxy, our far-flung brethren simply fought to survive on worlds that were so very close to Earth and yet completely new and uncharted wildernesses.