![]() ![]() ![]() Outworld, Sphere Sol’s farthest colony, is populated by paleolithic tribes who hunt with flint spears and make fire. Social organizations regress backward to historical periods of the home planet’s past. Colonization is accomplished by: instantaneous teleportation, called matter transmission or mattermission (very expensive) “freezer” ships in which colonists are sent in cryonic preservation at very high speeds (much decay and average 50% loss of colonists occurs during the voyages) and lifeships, slower, safer multigenerational vessels with voyages that run to centuries (during which the travelers regress in technical sophistication.) Because of the difficulty of colonization and the smaller population bases, all spheres suffer spherical regression - the greater the distance from source star to colony, the lower the level of technology that survives. Surrounding this sphere are other, similar spheres each centered on another star such as Polaris or Canopus. Sphere Sol is about 100 light years in diameter, centered on the Earth’s sun. The CLUSTER series of SF adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets. ![]()
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