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oh, fitz. ([personal profile] retravel) wrote in [community profile] meadowlark 2019-02-11 11:13 pm (UTC)

Right on both counts. Someone had to consider it — to look for a better way.

[ he turns over the coin that Connor gave him. no, that's not the only option. humanity seeks advances, regardless of the cost. ]

Or for more valuable resources.
The government and corporations already attempted to use the colonies to do just that, outsourcing land, relocating undesirables. Spacetime's only a few steps further than, well, space.


[ maybe it's about change, survival, pioneering. maybe it's the dark obverse of those things: a want for greater resources, edging out competitors or simply seeking power, like the energy suffusing the displaced. ]

Interuniversal surveying. Perhaps even interuniversal mining and fracking. They're all on the table, different prologues with the same end result: When someone starting exploring spacetime, they cracked open a faultline in the process.

[ that's one theory, anyway. an intentional pursuit with unintended consequences. ]

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