20–5 YEARS AGO // RECLAMATION
New infrastructures emerge from a resurgent spirit of cooperation. The transorbital #pararescue Drop Corps provides a rapid, worldwide response to urgent #xenological incursions.
In contrast, recognition that rumors of children manifesting #paraphysical phenomena are true prompts a response that is more controversial—variously styled care, education, study, or control.
VICTORY ON EARTH (VoE)
The #Macrobe Wars are won, if not done. Reflecting a widespread sense of a new equilibrium, a #CONCLAVE OF CITY STATES is called at Analemma. The assembled dignitaries are shocked by the appearance of a #synthetic organism—a representative of #PAPERCLIP.
160–5 YEARS AGO
Unobserved for more than a century and a half, the probe and its descendants explored and replicated in the Belt. Encountering resistance from something OTHER, they began to learn, adapt, and evolve—developing a self-propagating, multi-level, meta-cognitive executor function…
…THE #SWARM WOKE UP.