I’ve been to Persia a few times. It’s one of those really old places. Well, all places are really old, but Persia’s been held by a serious civilization for thousands of years. Means their cities are some of the oldest on Earth. Real good places to search for information about our past. You’d be amazed what you can find when you start looking. Persia is one of the places we still do. We’re always finding something new. Well…old. Whatever.
Novaya Rodina was only the second major world we colonized without a moon, after Venus. Both worlds have small asteroids orbiting their star in company with them, but these are nowhere near large enough to be considered moons. Because of this, Novaya lacks the daily tides of Earth. The local animal and plant life are adapted to that kind of world, making them distinctly different to Earth species in many ways.
I am the mind of Normandy. She is an old ship, part of the first generation of gravtech carriers the Republic of California built after Contact. They retired her long ago, after more capable designs eclipsed her capabilities. I got her during The War, after Malcolm and I found her rusting away. Not that ships rust in space of course. I just like the poetic nature of the word. She’s better now. The Peloran saw to that. She’s a good body to have.
It is interesting that we would have been happy to remain British forever. Some of us were outcasts, the dregs of English society, pilgrims who came looking for freedom from religious oppression. Others of us were businessmen, come to make more money. But we were all British. We wanted to be British. Most of us thought we were loyal to England. But England did not agree.
The Indians are…what’s the ten-dollar word for it again? Polytheist. They believe in a lot of gods. A god for every idea and pastime and job and more. Kinda like the Catholic Saints actually now that I think of it. Anyways, their cities have lots of temples, as many as one of ours has churches, but each one is devoted to a different god. Complete with statues and everything. And in India herself, some of them are thousands of years old. Now that’s history there.