One explanation for why we had not made Contact was actually a question of the future of the human condition. Many people theorized that as we, or anyone else, expanded our technology to the singularity point, we could leave our earthly bodies behind and enter into a new existence. The theory said that everyone else had gone beyond before we met them. Of course, we found it has not worked like that. But many still speculate that we are on the verge of that change.
I served on the HMAS Melbourne when her squadron joined The Fleet. Ten years into The War we were making a major push against the Chinese, and the Australians wanted in on it. I learned that all Australian sailors spend six months training on wet navy ships in the Pacific Ocean, patrolling the borders with China. They live and breathe the border. They know why they fight Comrade Wang. I think I learned more from them than they from me on that cruise.
Sanctuary was colonized with the mission of celebrating the unity of the Western Alliance, despite the infighting going on between the richest and poorest members of the Alliance in the mid-twenty second century. Instead it became a symbol of Alliance largess, protested against in dozens of nations that thought the money was better spent on Earth. It is a truly beautiful world though, with worlds-class architecture and gardens. I should know. I’m a gardener there.
The Fermi Paradox had many answers. One was that the twenty first century industrial societies used so many resources to maintain their lifestyle that the Earth, and in fact the entire Terran System, could not possibly support us. Many preached that resource exhaustion would lead to the end of civilization, and our ability to broadcast or travel to the stars. What they failed to understand is that our ingenuity keeps on developing new ways of finding resources.
Just about every nation in the Western Alliance, and some outside, sent warships to fly with Aneerin’s fleet. The Greeks did their part too, sending a heavy cruiser squadron. I flew off one of them for a while, the Andromeda. She was a beautiful ship, let me tell you. Smart, sassy, and never a helpless maiden waiting for some other guy to come rescue her from the big bad monster. No, she shot the monsters herself and sent them running. I still love that ship.
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