The people of Novaya Rodina have spent centuries slowly diverging from the rest of humanity. Between the early genetic screening and later planned and unplanned genetic manipulation, the change has been pronounced. The first difference that most people notice is that the Novayans are far stronger than other humans. They spend their lives fighting Novayan gravity, which gives them endurance and strength that few who grew on lesser worlds ever achieve.
We are a product of the normal universe we live in. Einsteinium Space or normalspace as many call it. The universe we can see from the surface of a planet. We can no more live in hyperspace without shielding than any other human. But there’s a theory that hyperspace isn’t another universe at all, but a transition between universes. It says that if we go deep enough, we just might find these universes, or people from them using hyperspace to travel like we do.
The traveling preachers of the First Great Awakening traveled across the Colonies, and even into Indian Territory to spread their word. They said we should have an emotional relationship with God, not merely sit in a pew and listen to what a priest told us in a dry sermon. The worth of man was based on the way he lived, not the class or even race he was born into. The King of England, who of course ruled by Divine Providence, did not approve of such teachings.
The Indian worlds are different from most other worlds I’ve been to. India is one of the oldest civilizations out there, with cities thousands of years old on Earth. I’ve been there, and the sense of age is amazing. The crazy thing is, they’ve somehow managed to keep that feel in their new colonies. Going there, it’s hard to realize that they’re only decades or centuries old. They feel…real old. Established. Like India has always been there.
The colonists of Novaya Rodina were screened for any illness, and any genetic predilections towards them. Every future colonist was similarly screened, to keep the planet itself from killing them. They were an entire population chosen from the best of the best of the best, both physically and mentally. The planet still almost killed them, but the survivors adapted and in time became something even greater. Novayan. What many call a new race of humanity.
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