Welcome awesome readers. Thanks for being here.
I hope all you readers had a great weekend. While I was playing with my band the Gutterminds at the festival this weekend it occurred to me that some of my readers may not be human and you may not know the story of how humanity came to prominence in the galaxy. I’m sure you all know who Max Gavaskar is and her story but you might not know what led to her story.
Humans first left our star system almost four hundred years ago in Earth year 2094, when Marcus Johnson led two thousand followers (including Dean and Lori Normer, my ancestors) to planet Harappa. We’d been there two hundred years when the Earthship Marcus Johnson showed up with word that humanity had developed faster than light technology.
In a fight for resources (the mineral illumaphane which is essential for FTL) planet Harappa was knocked off it’s already wobbly orbit and sent spiraling toward it’s sun. It should complete that journey within a few months. Scientist are there watching the final moments of the planet’s death spiral.
My friend Dorian Thain negotiated with the SID, the political power of the Earthers after the fall of the Greenies (more on that tomorrow). He arranged for Harappans to take possession of Kusha while giving Harappa to the SID for mining and planet Lava to them as well. Lava is a world tipped on it’s side and only livable on a narrow belt around it’s equator. Kusha on the other hand is the garden spot of the Milky Way.
Shortly after we settled Kusha we were contacted by an alien race called the Fordians. They claimed that Kusha was an ecological preserve of theirs. They meant to move us off the world but, again my friend Dorian along with the help of Max Gavaskar herself negotiated with them allowing us to keep possession of this wonderful world. At the same time Max Gavaskar solved the problem with the FTL that allowed all advanced species to travel freely around the galaxy and we all know how THAT turned out.
Tomorrow: The fall of the Greenies and the rise of the Knights of Tarsus.
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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