Major Tom Rogers proved that we were not alone in the universe in 2205. It was not his plan. He merely wished to fly a rocket ship through an impossible barrier of stellar debris to see what was on the other side. Then he was going to turn around, fly back the other way, and brag about how he was better than every other pilot in the universe. But the Peloran watching him had other ideas. They made Contact after he arrived on the other side, and Juliet chose him as her partner. They traveled far and wide over the next several decades, and he played the part of daring young pilot, while Juliet gave most of us our first sight of a modern cybernetic intelligence. The two of them changed our worlds. And that was before he joined the Cowboys and fought The War with us. Let us just say that he has many stories to tell and leave it at that.

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