"Picnic-verse"
2025-present
In the far future, humans have created: a dozen extraterrestrial colonies, near-instantaneous interstellar communication, and, only very recently, faster-than-light drives that can get you between stars in mere days. They have also created: United Earth, the liberal-leaning, heavily-bureaucratic government entity that oversees 90% of human activity in space and stricly regulates FTL travel.
But for all their adventuring so far, humans have not yet encountered other sentient life...
Tentatively named "picnicverse" as a Strugatsky homage. I need a better name...
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