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Countdown to The Fall
This refers to the fall of both The People's Republic of Terra and The League of Allied Worlds.
This is stuff I want to remember, but probably won't live here forever.
Snippet from McKenzie's innaugural address as president:
"On the surface, it seems crazy that generating an artificial gravity well strong enough to wrap a ship inside its own pocket of space time, before squeezing it so hard a black hole would blush could ever become so commonplace. But, just like our previous trick of manipulating air pressure to fall and miss the ground, we've completely lost all sense of wonder about it. One first let us zip around our planet in a few hours, and the other let us fling ourselves among the stars. We enjoy the convenience of it, but no longer appreciate how it's done.
The Seekers have a phrase, 'to dance the light fantastic', and I feel like they've somehow rediscovered a sense of awe and wonder that the rest of us have lost. I think if we could, just a little, see the universe through their eyes, we might just set aside many of our differences in the name of mutual awe."