Many people say that the Chinese celebrate New Years at an odd time. Fact is, for thousands of years, New Years was based on the planting or harvesting seasons. China and ancient Rome both had New Years in spring, while the Jewish and Celtics celebrated it in fall. March 1 was New Years in Rome until Julius Caesar set it to January 1. But it wasn’t until the 1700s that all of Christendom accepted January 1 as New Years. Historically, we’re the odd ones.
Not long after me and Sam first met, she asked what I would have done if she hadn’t found me. I joked about getting a lot more sleep for one. She offered to help me out if sleep was that important. Dangerous offer there. I told her that the first thing a man says is never most important, it is a delaying tactic while he thinks of something better to say. That intrigued her, and she told me to continue. The secret of our relationship is that I never stopped.
One of the things we’ve always done is help people. First we helped them by fighting to drive the Shang away. Then we fought some more because the times called for it. After that, we started traveling, and we found people who needed help, usually of a less combative nature. Usually. We helped, and as time went on we helped some more, and people found out and started asking for more help. As things often do, they snowballed.
From the start, we thought the Terran Bubble would be trouble. NASA sent Magellan Seven in 2120 on a forty-year mission to study The Walls of The Bubble and found them impassable. NASA started sending Vulcan Missions in 2170, tasked to find a way through The Wall. Then the Navy took over exploration, and shut NASA down. The Vulcan Missions didn’t get the memo, kept flying, and Independence Seven penetrated The Wall in 2205. The year the Peloran made Contact.
Pilots have flown for hundreds of years now. For the first two centuries, we flew on our own instincts, judging and guessing where we were and just hoping we didn’t make a mistake that killed us. In the late 1900s, we started getting help from computers that weren’t very smart at all. In 2205, a NASA Astronaut found himself a partner that changed everything. His name is Major Tom Rogers. He is the first modern pilot. To pilots, he’s a bit of a hero.
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