![]() ![]() In a way she is the person most responsible for human expansion into space. Centuries-old genius Fumiko Nakajima is a genius who was instrumental in help humanity escape Earth in the 22nd century by designing the four space stations that now exist beyond the home planet. She wants to take care of and guard a young boy, a mute refugee Captain Nia has bonded with.ĭuring the Debby’s return to its space station base, we are told of the station’s creator. The story then moves to follow Nia, who is the Captain of the spaceship Debby. Space travellers like Captain Nia Imani seem ageless to the residents of the planets they visit. Kaeda meets Nia every sixteen years, from him being a teenager to old age. Every sixteen years or so the planet is visited by spaceships that take their harvest away. The story begins by telling of Kaeda on a planet that harvests the dhuba plant. There are obviously consequences of this. One of the outcomes of such travel is that time is dilated, so that a few months travel in an FTL is decades on the planets. ![]() These worlds are connected by spaceships that travel at faster-than-light speeds in Pocket Space. Imagine your world and your life being run by Apple or Amazon (actually, not that different to today then!) ![]() Humans have left Earth, ruined by Humanity’s greed, and expanded across the galaxy to space stations perhaps unsurprisingly run by corporate businesses. The setup is slowly drip-fed to the reader. This is a Space Opera with ambitions – a big sprawling universe with loads of great ideas, likable characters and great pace. ![]()
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