After The War, we just flew around for a while. Visited the Core Worlds, spent a few days on each. Did a lot of partying. Then we had to do some more fighting. There were people out there that were scared of us. Thought we were dangerous. They wanted to control us. We fought and died to protect their freedom, and they wanted to shackle us in return. We didn’t take that well. Not well at all.
Before Contact, colony missions were expensive, multinational affairs to start and support, and only the richest nations could afford one. The Australian Federation was one of the very few that could afford to support more than one. They built New Sydney on the lessons of their first colony mission, to be a work of art and pride of Australia. The bigger and better Opera House stands as a testament to this mission. I am a translator for foreign language operas there.
We spent the first decade of our exploration to the stars moving around the Alpha Centauri double star system. Between the Alliance, the Russians, and the Chinese, we started five major colonies on four habitable worlds, in addition to over a dozen scientific outposts. Alpha Centauri became our gateway to the stars, a trial run for the technologies that would take us further than most of us ever dreamed.
I flew off a lot of ships during The War. Some were older than The War, some where newly built for it. One wasn’t even a warship at all when it all started. After Hyades, I the cybers built me a scout ship so we could search for the enemy. They built a lot of them for a lot of us. The ships stayed with us after it all ended. Most of them are still with us. I made my ship my home. She’s a good ship and a good friend. We’ve been…everywhere together.
After Contact, Peloran technologies let us go faster, farther, and cheaper. And we did. The Greeks had sent a colony mission out to a system on the inner edge of The Wall a year before. With Peloran help, they sent another ship to the world they named Elysium, the Greek afterlife for heroes. The second ship arrived before the primary colonists, which surprised them greatly. They woke up to a new universe of possibilities, one where we were not alone.
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