Day Thirty-One (end)

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Day Thirty-One (end) June 8th, 2008

…and this is the last day of the thirty days thingy.  Hurrah.
For a thousand years, mankind spread across the galaxy, relying on the nearly miraculous Hauser dive to fling them faster than light.
The United Nations metamorphosed, taking on more and more and more authority. The single, unified UN government at the height of mankind’s expansion reached some two hundred and fifty worlds scattered across a region of space that stretched as far as the Aquila Rift.

And then it came crashing down.
The human intergalactic civilization was tenuous at best.
Worlds were easily isolated, lost, forgotten.
Records were scarce, and the precise region for the collapse was unknown.
It could have been plague, or war, or any of another hundred reasons.
Within a century the home world had been lost, and the colonies of humankind began to forget about their brethren.  
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