Greetings exceptional readers. Thanks for being here.
We’re discussing what oddities the SID found in the Galactic neighborhood.
We’ve mentioned that they did not find much that was noteworthy. They did find primitive life, but history tells us that it wasn’t until we came across more advanced life that this news had any impact on human culture. That is a discussion for later.
Beyond that and a few uninhabitable worlds they didn’t come up with much. They developed maps and charts for the area and for the star systems they explored, but most of that information was already known during the Golden Age of science, the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first Centuries.
A lot of that information was lost in the great computer crash of 2083. That seems to be a breaking point for human history on Earth. So much of what was known at the time was lost. Many of mankind's earlier works survived because they were still in their initial state. Things that were created in the Gilded Computer Age did not have real world counterparts and are permanently lost to us.
Marcus Johnson for all his faults is given some credit for saving some of this information. It was his library that contained the rock and roll recordings that I learned the music from. His Librarians on Harappa had a huge warehouse of art and treasure from Old Earth. Much of that was taken back to Earth as part of the Treaty of Tokio which gave possession of Kusha to the Harappan Government, namely my friend Dorian Thain. A few treasures came to Kusha, notably the music library, several historical paintings a few Greek statues and some signed books by ancient Earth authors, Twain, Vidal, Kesey, Herbert, de la Tour and others.
Looking at this post it seems obvious to me that I have exhausted the discussion about the SID’s early explorations. I am meandering to other subjects. So . . . lets move on to those subjects.
Tomorrow: The Treaty of Tokio
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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