Jack of Harts

The Great Space Race of the Twenty First Century gave us all a new frontier to expand into after the Cybernetic Wars and the Islamic Jihad. Humanity rocketed into space, to Mars, Venus, the asteroid belt, and beyond. It was a new era with new horizons, but it would not have lasted forever. The Solar System was smaller than we wanted it to be, and we would have run out of room far too soon. The AI Council knew this and helped us build long-range ships that could take us to the very edges of the Solar System. And then they helped us build the hyperdrives that could take us to other stars. It was always their plan to keep us expanding outward so we would be too busy finding new worlds to go back to fighting each other over the worlds we already had. They would have succeeded if it had not have been for the meddlesome Shang.