Jack of Harts

I traveled to Betelgeuse shortly after we made Contact with the Branan. The Thunderbirds as most people refer to them. The most important thing to remember about them is that they were never as primitive as some thought them. They utterly lacked hyperspace travel, and that caused many to underestimate them. But the truth is that local hyperspace conditions were far more…rigorous…than those surrounding Earth. We would not have had hyperspace travel either if we grew up on Betelgeuse. Despite that, they colonized six nearby multiple-star systems and had established electronic presences in almost every system within one hundred lightyears of their home. That was a truly monumental task for a slower-than-light society. My family sent me to negotiate trade and manufacturing deals with them. I did that, and so much more.