According to Arkadian history, after the total destruction of the other half of the Arkadian Binary system, the survivors towed one of the last remaining moons over to the smoke ring surrounding the other star. They renamed it Antigonia, after their destroyed homeworld, and in the last two thousand years it has become the center of civilization in the Arkadian Ring. It is also the place where we found a very special artifact that we had been searching for.
Long ago, we came to a new, strange world that made little sense to us. We struggled to grow corps in the alien soil, but they failed. But we made friends with the natives, and they helped us. We worked together, growing new food and hunting the local animals. In the end, we all celebrated together, thanking God for the friendships that helped us gather the food we needed to survive the coming winter. That is the essence of the holiday we call Thanksgiving.
The Peloran did not actually give us high technology. Not much at least. They gave us basic gravitic tech and improved hyperdrives generations ahead of our technology, but they were far below true Peloran technology. They gave us a taste, a very good taste, and then taught us what we needed to know to design those same technologies on our own. In the words of an old parable, they taught us how to fish.
Me and Betty became explorers after The War, going all over and looking for anything new. We spent a lot of time on our worlds, looking for things that nobody else knew were there. We also went places totally new, for all of us. I’ve seen waterfalls three kilometers high, meteor showers burning as hot as stars, and the deep darkness between the arms of the galaxy. We’ve been where no one has gone before. Well. No Terran at least.
We spent nearly a month in Arkadia after The War. We were looking for artifacts there. Arkadia was destroyed back during the Great War a couple thousand years ago, but there are lots of relics you can still find there. We spent a long time looking. Of course, T&J were doing concerts at the same time, and there were a lot of venues there. Nobody knew we were looking for anything else, which was exactly how we needed it.
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