"The Fate of Transhumanity" Topic
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Tango01 | 16 May 2019 12:41 p.m. PST |
"It has been 193 years since the discovery of 2-space and the invention of the planing engine granted humanity with the ability to travel faster than light. It reinvigorated Earth culture—moribund for over ten thousand years—lifting it from introspection within the Mindscape and driving them out to explore the universe once again. Within days and months, the new explorers made contact with worlds that had been first discovered millennia before by the wave upon wave of slow and generation ships during the First Age of Space. What they found were colonies whose inhabitants had diverged from Earth, both culturally and biologically, having either evolved or been engineered. This included a range of hominids such as post-human and para-human subspecies, xenomorphs or uplifted animal species, new cultures and those based on old Earth cultures and even fictitious ones, wholly synthetic species, even alien species. As they made contact, the explorers were culturally contaminating the new worlds, the cultural contamination went both ways, forcing Earth to set protection methods that worked both ways. Even then, it did not prevent cultural and technological contamination of the Empire of Venu that would lead to a vicious war with Venu…."
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Amicalement Armand |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 16 May 2019 10:23 p.m. PST |
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Covert Walrus | 16 May 2019 11:41 p.m. PST |
Sounds likethe universe of The Instrumentailty of Mankind, from the Cordwainer Smith stories, just a little cyberpunked up. |
Tango01 | 17 May 2019 1:06 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. Amicalement Armand
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