Jack of Harts

Few people know that the AI Council Contacted the Peloran long before the Peloran made Contact with us. They talked the Peloran into keeping their distance until we were ready. And they acquired numerous Peloran technologies that they then slowly filtered into our world a piece at a time. Some they covered as new ideas brought forth by new understandings of math and physics. Some they guided our own researchers into finding “on our own.” It helps bring the massive technological innovations of the twenty-first century into focus when you think about it from that point of view. The Peloran were uplifting us while using the AI Council as a conduit. And much like they gave us the knowledge to bend gravity after Contact, they gave us another amazing gift back then. That gift gave us the galaxy. The hyperdrive.