"All right, let's see... sometime in the early twenty-third century, ballpark of 2230, humanity invented jumpships and immediately started colonizing every system they could find that was more than barely habitable. Emphasis on the ones that already supported some form of life, because clearly they could be made to support ours. I'm not sure exactly which planets were established in that first wave - Escobar and Tau Ceti, I think, and maybe Zoave Twilight and Illyrica. And Barrayar. But Barrayar suffered a mishap: a collapsed wormhole cut off their route home while the first bunch of colonists were still settling in. So while the rest of the wormhole nexus kept right on merrily exploring and colonizing and advancing, Barrayar descended into near-Bronze-Age near-anarchy and then started over from there. Some centuries went by. Plenty more planets were colonized. I'm going to deliver a shamelessly skewed perspective and mostly talk about the ones that feature in my or my family's history: Jackson's Whole, Beta Colony, Komarr, and the Cetagandan Empire."
He pauses, then asks, "I don't suppose you can conjure me up a map of the wormhole nexus? This will be a little easier with pictures. Holo, please; two dimensions never feel like enough."
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"All right, let's see... sometime in the early twenty-third century, ballpark of 2230, humanity invented jumpships and immediately started colonizing every system they could find that was more than barely habitable. Emphasis on the ones that already supported some form of life, because clearly they could be made to support ours. I'm not sure exactly which planets were established in that first wave - Escobar and Tau Ceti, I think, and maybe Zoave Twilight and Illyrica. And Barrayar. But Barrayar suffered a mishap: a collapsed wormhole cut off their route home while the first bunch of colonists were still settling in. So while the rest of the wormhole nexus kept right on merrily exploring and colonizing and advancing, Barrayar descended into near-Bronze-Age near-anarchy and then started over from there. Some centuries went by. Plenty more planets were colonized. I'm going to deliver a shamelessly skewed perspective and mostly talk about the ones that feature in my or my family's history: Jackson's Whole, Beta Colony, Komarr, and the Cetagandan Empire."
He pauses, then asks, "I don't suppose you can conjure me up a map of the wormhole nexus? This will be a little easier with pictures. Holo, please; two dimensions never feel like enough."