Most historians think that the launch of the Ching Shih, which took place less than twenty years later, was a direct reaction to the Bubble War. What else could explain the Diaspora? What else could explain the fact that we left the one planet in all of creation that we were actually evolved to inhabit, the one that didn’t require any terraforming or inoculations or wars with native sentients, for . . . well, for places like Niflheim? It was clear to those people that if humanity stayed in one place, we’d eventually kill one another—and they were almost certainly right. Nobody has heard a peep
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