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.
After Contact, the Peloran medical treatments cured our worst diseases, and gave us the long lives that are common now. And in a very few cases, we stopped aging at all. We became Ageless. It took us some time to realize how important Ageless were. At first, all we saw was the shiny new gravitic technologies that could bring us to the galaxy at large far faster and safer than the mere rockets we flew the year before. At first.
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