I was born to help plan and build a new colony, farther away from Earth than any previous colony. It took years to bring all the resources we needed together. The starships. The colonists. The funding of course came from Charles. His family has a long history of money, and even they didn’t know where all of it was. It was impressively easy to divert the funds it took to make the Wolfenheim Project a reality.
We British ruled the waves for centuries with our merchant fleets. The sun never set on our fleets, from one side of the world to the other. We bought and sold anywhere there were people, and the riches of the world flowed through our ports. London. Philadelphia. Boston. Our ships called the greatest seaports in the entire world their homes. It was an amazing time for us. Our merchant fleets made us kings of the world in every way that mattered.
I’ve been to a lot of South American worlds. They’ve worked real hard to stay non-aligned to any of the big powers out there. Even in the middle of The War, they declared neutrality and kept their ships out of the way. After The War ended, they welcomed anybody into their systems again. Bring money, and they’ve got whole star systems where you can do what you want. They don’t care where you’re from, or where you’re going. True neutral as they say. Kinda fun.
Novaya Rodina really isn’t a world that most of us would colonize now. She’s larger than Earth, has a larger mass shadow than Earth, and heavier surface gravity than Earth. Most of her surface is frozen solid, and her air is far thicker than Earth. It takes massive equalization chambers in the spaceports to even allow visitors to walk onto the planet without instantly injuring themselves. The original colonists did not have it easy.
Governor Penn wanted his new colony to be a haven to anyone, a place where the persecuted could live in peace. My family was not one of them, but we thought it could be a good place to do business. We invested heavily in the infrastructure of Philadelphia, and worked with many others to build a grand series of docks. The merchants came by the thousands, second only to London herself. And so Philadelphia became the greatest city in the New World.
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