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                 <h1 id="tycho-brahe-2346">Tycho Brahe &mdash; 2346</h1>
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-<p>Upon looking at the sky, many saw the stars and supposed that they must be the campfires of others. How far away they must be, to be such small points of light! Mere pinpricks in the black fabric of the night. They looked up, saw the campfires, and considered that they themselves might be just as the others were, looking out into the night and considering their own fire with dreaming minds.</p>
-<p><em>&mdash; On the Origins of Our World, by May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode Clade</em></p>
+<p>While the reasons for the Launch project are complex and will be discussed in depth in a later portion of this history, it is important to establish a set of facts before continuing. This is no &ldquo;take care that you first place him in his time&rdquo;, some short fictional introduction to be placed at the chapter headings of some long-rambling fictional account. These facts are important because they provide much needed context for the project that led to our little diaspora.</p>
+<p>First and foremost among these facts, almost to the point where one might consider all following facts as following logically from it, is that Launch Day takes place exactly two hundred years after Secession Day.</p>
+<p>On the surface of it, especially for those who have had some connection with the event itself, this may seem like backwards. After all, so much happened around Launch. So much <em>had</em> to happen around Launch, yes? Sending off two multi-ton blocks of computronium and raw materials, solar sails and Dreamer Modules, out into unknown space takes rather a lot of work.</p>
+<p>But in all ways, that falls out of the simple fact that Launch Day occurred on the bicentennial Secession Day.</p>
+<p><em>&mdash; An Expanded History of Our World, by Ioan and Codrin of the Bălan Clade</em></p>
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 <p>It took Tycho Brahe what felt like an age to remember Codrin Bălan, and then it took em a panicked age longer to remember that, yes, sensorium messages were a thing, had been a thing for more than two centuries, and a third age still to remember how to send one.</p>
 <p>There was some unknown urgency within him, and even though he supposed that there was no need to hurry, he nonetheless did not fork, deeming it not worth the time in his rush. Instead, he simply sent a message to the historian beginning with a jolt of adrenaline, and began talking.</p>

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                 <p>While the reasons for the Launch project are complex and will be discussed in depth in a later portion of this history, it is important to establish a set of facts before continuing. This is no &ldquo;take care that you first place him in his time&rdquo;, some short fictional introduction to be placed at the chapter headings of some long-rambling fictional account. These facts are important because they provide much needed context for the project that led to our little diaspora.</p>
-<p>First and foremost among these facts, almost to the point where one might consider all following facts as following logically from it, is that Launch Day takes place two hundred years exactly after Secession Day.</p>
-<p>On the surface of it, especially for those who have had some connection with the event itself, this may seem like backwards. After all, so much happened around Launch. So much <em>had</em> to happen around Launch, right? Sending off two multi-ton blocks of computronium and raw materials, solar sails and Dreamer Modules, out into unknown space takes rather a lot of work.</p>
+<p>First and foremost among these facts, almost to the point where one might consider all following facts as following logically from it, is that Launch Day takes place exactly two hundred years after Secession Day.</p>
+<p>On the surface of it, especially for those who have had some connection with the event itself, this may seem like backwards. After all, so much happened around Launch. So much <em>had</em> to happen around Launch, yes? Sending off two multi-ton blocks of computronium and raw materials, solar sails and Dreamer Modules, out into unknown space takes rather a lot of work.</p>
 <p>But in all ways, that falls out of the simple fact that Launch Day occurred on the bicentennial Secession Day.</p>
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 <p>The reason that this association between Secession and Launch is as important as it is is multifaceted. Yes, there was a similarity between the acts, of dividing, of leaving; much of the first part of this history will be spent dissecting those. Yes, there was political maneuvering both phys- and sys-side in order to accomplish them both; you will read about that. Yes, there was discussion about the wisdom of actions such as these; this you will read about as well.</p>