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CHAPTER TWO

  Our planets change us more than what some like to admit. Some point to the so-called "Cultural Reawakening" that occurred prior to the Second Dispersion, where someone could almost arbitrarily decide that he was descended from ancient Macedonian kings and even genetically change his ethnic characteristics to align. I do not deny that this was a significant development in our history, but I think there is more to the story. It's even more than different air or different gravity. It's a different crucible. The people of my home-world of Niyati are different than the people that originally settled here. Nuevo will change us again.

  - Archives of Lord Dakshu Pran Ashoka, High Chancellor of the Empire of Man (from 354 to 367 P.D.)