Jack of Harts

The Branan systems were separated by lightyears of space, but they were linked together by the lightspeed networks that allowed communications across their far-flung colonial holdings. It may have taken them years or decades to send transmissions back and forth, but the networks were filled with Branan heroes and leaders of the past. These Second Life Branan kept all of Branan civilization from balkanizing into a dozen different smaller civilizations with nothing in common. And they had their own Second Life Colonies as far as a hundred years transmission time from their homeworld, but they were mere years from their nearby neighbors. We Contacted a lively civilization over two thousand years old, spanning two hundred lightyears of space, as well as the biological and electronic worlds. It was an eye-opening experience for everyone involved.