The interesting thing about the treatments is that nobody reacts in exactly the same way to them. Most people start aging at an effective rate of 1 year for every 10. Some age slower, some faster. The really old can seem to get a lot younger too. They’re still old, but they’re healthy old. And that can make all the difference in the worlds. Most of us should be able to live for centuries. And the effect of that on society is crazy amazing.
The original lunar colonies of Alpha Centauri were low to effectively zero gravity affairs. Some moons were little more than an anchor for an attached colony. Others dug massive underground warrens and filled them with air. Low gravity was the common factor. The acceptance of Peloran gravtech changed everything. Inexpensive gravtiles have made it easy to bring standard gravity to most extreme environments, dramatically increasing our colonization options.
My family is a powerful one, with a lineage stretching back thousands of years if our histories are accurate. We were not always called Hurst of course. Power and money has passed on through, and into, the family via daughters and wives more than once after all, and not every culture maintains family names as we do now. Also it was sometimes advantageous to change the family name. One must always be willing to set aside a name if it becomes too radioactive.
After Clarice and the others like her, the Peloran spread out the treatments. The health treatments infants, boosted every couple years. The final anti-aging treatments came later. Of course the two are more closely related than most think. Still, they held off the final treatments until all of us had a chance to grow up. For men they picked twenty-five years, twenty-three for women. Mixing the energy of youth with the maturity of age. Or so goes the theory.
The moons of Alpha Centauri are some of the oldest colonies of mankind. Every major nation has placed their stamp on those moons, and most minor ones. Most of the colonies are domed of course. That goes with the territory after all. But there are some really big domes scattered around, and some towers that humble any Earth-built tower ever imagined. I’m talking kilometers in height. They are a sight to behold.
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