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The Distance Problem
In the late 21st century, humanity's greatest enemy was distance. The same distance that had always been there. Then a miner named Nick Croshaw found something the physicists said was impossible, a knotted throat of spacetime that ended somewhere else.
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They told me to turn back. I turned further in., Nick Croshaw, logbook, 2157
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The Flood Begins
Within a century of Croshaw's discovery, hundreds of jump points had been charted. Humanity was no longer a single-world species. The old political systems buckled under the weight of colonies that were months of communication away. The UNE formed from the ashes of the Coalition Wars.