Book 1[2140 a world at peace. The achievement of political liberty ushers in the most profound era of peace and prosperity in human history. Heros of liberty become more than legend, even quasi-gods (as in, problematic idolatry) and eventually the idea of liberty becomes more important than actual liberty. Seduced by comfort and complacency liberty is eroded atom by atom every piece waiting until the people have forgotten. And the leviathan grows again.]
Book 2
[2562 the rise of the despots. A powerful new brand of psychological totalitarianism infects large population masses to form almost complete collective consciences (aided by total communitied media immersion) the world transforms into zombies and freemen. nominally at peace the despots are content with their zombies and don't usually bother the freemen unless they 'get out of line' or cause trouble with the zombies. A few hundred years and the freemen are hated, hunted, and enslaved or murdered. The last fascist wedge is to hate the freemen who rejected it all.]
Book 3
[In 3021 the world overcome with cellular multinational totalitarian despotisms, like the evolution of sponges forms into a single global totalitarian despotic organism, eventually making the complete confederacy of despots official in a global pact. Secret multi trillionaires in a rich community of the remnants of freemen quietly disguise sleeper ship operations as solar system mining operations. The freemen early began to take to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the lithium mines on Mars. As long as they kept sending value down the gravity well they were allowed to keep breathing. Space became political banishment for being freedom minded, but earthbound corporations owned everything. A few secretly libertarian trillionaires (in a wink and a handshake society) pool resources to hide sleeper colony ships from EarthGov and form an entire hidden libertarian society even out in space to hide from the watchers, organized to fill the sleeper ships and leave for suitable planets. On the day that the confederacy of total despotism is signed, 75% of all the spacers disappeared. Around 200 libertarians left on earth sent a message "we are the last spark of freedom, and we will either live or die with the human race" and blow themselves up taking half of every capitol in the world with them. New Human Dark Ages. The despots were hardly affected by the loss of their capitols, and they used the event as a watchword against freedom. Although the scrutiny was insane they only knew that every freedom minded person left or killed themselves. They did not know that a remnant remained, buried like Zion in the Matrix. A pretty large remnant, with a 100 year plan.]
Book4
[3594 Barbarians At The Gate. About 7 billion (out of 12Bn) people go stark, raving mad. despotic injustices and political oppression become too much and the people just lose it. Only, it gets lost....bad. As in impalements, and the French Revolution was a cup of tea. About 1 billion liberty remnants emerge from underground when the world goes mad. They are not enough to stop the french revolution style bloodletting. They are enough to steer society towards a better choice. similar to magna carta vs totalitarian kings and so on. massive political struggles ensue. Quip: "Hey Jyorn, we are 500 years into the 100 year plan. How in the hell am I supposed to get people excited?"]
Book 5
[3721 The enlightenment of man - akin to the renaissance. Freedom blossoms, technology re-blooms from out of the dark ages. Space becomes interesting again. They never actually stopped mining the solar system, they just militarized space. Now, able to travel as fast as 42% light speed, they are sending manned expeditions to the oort clouds, and outside the solar envelop. Hope blossoms, and there is even talk about interstellar missions. An interesting planet is identified and a manned expedition at 40% C is sent on a 20 year round trip with a five year layover at the planet. Their Neil Armstrong moment is disturbed when an AI drone chose their recording of the first footsteps to display a greeting. In addition to a whole Croatan mystery thing, the message is deceptive on purpose. The planet lay east of Earth, It says they went North, when they really went southwest. The sleepers wanted as far from the rest of the beggars as they could get.]
Book 6
[3873 A couple new colonizer missions went out, not with the same enthusiasm but better tech better equip microsleep instead of macrosleep was developed. Colonizing became relatively easy and little multiplanet nations formed in local earth space They expanded in all directions but mostly north and east chasing the legend of the lost sleepers. 12 crew rotations. sleep a year, one month duty. Now intersteller travel lasts 10-20 years, but feels like a couple months. Or passengers a couple days. An inhabited cloud of planets spanning 50 light years in diameter is formed, blobbed towards the north and east.]
Book 7
[YEAR ZERO SE Space Era - In 4022 AD quantum space-folding is discovered, half-warp drive half wormhole tunneler, a means to project a single particle at several hundred times the speed of light, a split quantum particle is retained on the departure end and then the destination end is in place a field compresses space in between the quantum points, reducing the space-time distance a million-fold by drawing space itself into little folds. A vessel must obtain 31.14159... %C to work, and external observation is seen to have the ship skipping into regular intervals through space at roughly 1/3 C. Travel between stars is just months not years.]
Book 8
[5300 Colonizing expands exponentially. 50 light years becomes 100 light years becomes 250 light years before commo lines get outstripped and man reaches a stasis. Croatan is nothing but legend anymore as nothing else is ever found or seen. Man has filled a quarter of the galaxy (mostly north and east, almost by tradition now, but still in all directions)]
Book 9
[6200 next-wave spacefolding discovered an order of magnitude efficiency increase. Harmonics, 2πC with 4 split quantum particles (we could never choreograph multiple quantum particles at once before, now we could) resulting in an 8-fold efficiency increase. Half the galaxy is inhabited, the sleeper legend is basically forgotten. New theories emerge that with 16 particles at 3πC one will get a 64-fold increase in travel efficiency, making intergalactic travel possible. But it's just theory as nobody can really imagine travelling at 3πC or engineering a 16-particle drive. But there is always one small set of geeks that can never allow a dream to die…]
Book 10
[6900 Turns out 2 particles at π^2 do the trick Man can cross the entire galaxy in days. ]
Book 11
[Year 7064 AD // Year 3042 SE - HGM Columbus lands on a planet in the last uninhabited quadrant, to find it inhabited. By humans. By libertarian humans who have not invented superluminal drive, and yet are more technologically advanced than the interlopers in many many ways. Not in terms of warfare. They had little or no use for war. Over time, the Hegemony determines the ideas of these free people are a threat and wants them eliminated before they infect his empire.]
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