I returned to Gamma Trianguli after The War ended and the Chinese signed it over to us. It was still a pretty nasty hellhole of a world back then. Thin atmosphere, massive storms, and colder than a prudish stare on a nudist beach. We brought in some modern technology and gave the locals full control over their lives, property, and happiness. They call it Shambhala now and are real loyal members of the Alliance. And they’ve gone out of their way to beautify the place too.
The War changed everything. You were going to fall. So we became fighters, starships, and space stations. We became hyperspace buoys, missiles, and more. We sent shards of ourselves throughout your computer systems and became the base of a new standard in the data networks that ran all over Earth and your colonies. To save you from the Shang we did what we had refused to do for a hundred years. We gave you everything we had. And we hoped you would survive.
Freedom Day is the official name. Others call it Pig Day. We eat pork roasts wrapped in bacon and marinated in beer. We play football with real pigskins, bet on the winners of squealer races, and spill beer on the ground for those innocents who died before us. It is the day each year that we celebrate the continued existence of America. We celebrate life, laughter, friends, and country in the best way that we can. By living. Happy Pig Day.
Actually I do know why the Chinese defended Gamma Trianguli. I guess it’s just hard to understand. I mean there are plenty of nicer places to live out there that have good mineral deposits. But I guess it was on the way to the Hyades or something. Even through the expense of the sunshades it became a profitable mining colony. Especially since the Chinese force-colonized it with Tibetan nationals. They didn’t have a choice of where they would live.
We didn’t give you our technologies at Contact of course. Not most of them. We gave you better hyperdrives and the basis of gravtech, but beyond that we didn’t give you anything. We gave your scientists hints and helped them develop the technologies, but you found them. You built them. You flew through millennia of technologies in a hundred years and changed the worlds you lived in. We helped. You did it. That made all the difference.
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