At the end of the 23rd Century, a star ship leaves Earth to find a new home for humanity between the stars. When something appears to go catastrophically wrong on Earth, a fraction of the ship’s crew pleads to turn the ship around, while others argue to press on, leading to a conflict which could tear the ship apart…
A common theme about humanity is that we do stuff. We create, we sow; we destroy and we harvest. And then we mythologize all that creating and sowing and destroying and harvesting in song, word and paint. That’s really all you need to know about us as a people. We love our stories, legends, and mythologies. We will proudly prefer an entertaining story full of falsehoods over a boring one full of truth, and we will die on hills for the stories that mean something to us. So whatever you read in the pages following this text, take it with care, because I might be lying to hold your attention.
Opening paragraph of “The Ultimative History of the Sector”, the popular, semi-satirical retelling of the history of the Stianderlijf sector.
christoph-david volbers 