Civilization and Earth faced ruin.
Space industry offered hope.
Knowledge of other planets became necessary.
A solar sail ship took 1000 people to Mars in 6 months.
Minerals from Phobos were sent to Earth.
Auxiliary craft landed all over Mars.
A ship from Earth was lost en route to Mercury.
A Britannic-American consortium launched the Chronos.
It took 8 years to reach Saturn.
Scientists and crew formed a community.
Children were born en route.
TV tapes were limited to three hours a day to prevent passivity.
Some individuals and groups passed their time with psychodrama.
Observations
That first sentence is us.
This first story starts to link our period to the Technic History.
Technic civilization has not begun yet.
Hyperdrive, Grand Survey and Ythrians appear in the second story.
That story, "Wings of Victory," is the first collected in The Earth Book Of Stormgate.
Therefore, "The Saturn Game" is followed by Hloch's first introductory passage.
Hloch writes much later, in the Terran Empire period.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I hope we see the beginnings of your second to fifth sentences within two or three years if Elon Musk manages to send colonizing ships to Mars.
Ad astra! Sean
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