To the authorities in England, the First Great Awakening was an attack against King and Country, a rebellion in thought if not in deed. They tried to silence the traveling preachers, to force them to give up on their foolish ideas. Many pastors died when they were lynched by religious mobs, or were hung by British courts. My family stayed out of the line of fire, preferring to do business and make money. But increased taxes and trade restrictions hurt even us.
The Indian worlds are unique. They’re part of the British Commonwealth, but not part of the Western Alliance. Makes for real interesting politics. They’ve remained neutral in matters between the Big Three alliances for instance, maintaining their official pacifism. Gandhi would be proud. Of course, they still have one of the larger militaries out there. They may not want to start a fight, but they will, by all of their gods, finish one that some other idiot starts.
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.
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