My research targeted the cultural tendency for artificial division along political lines, and how our capital’s vehemently split parties could be extrapolated to highlight the divisive issues facing Interstel and the myriad colonies it attempted to govern. My proposition was a “common goals first” policy that built bridges instead of burned them. I was naïve, oh yes, but some things, I thought—and I still do think—are worth being naïve for.
