What Logan said.
I don't want to force this on anyone (although it looks to be popular), and I'm not wedded to any particular part of it other than Stellvia/Artemis getting to explore the two systems I've already staked out. We can change the details.
Consider: the Boskone War ends in January 2014. The Miranda doesn't return to the Sol system until mid-2014 - we have a story thread that says they reach Hades Station during the Convention that year. Then there's a couple of months of people considering "should we?", followed by some but not all of those people considering "how?", capped off with StellviaCorp's declaration of independence and Helen's birth (which decides the issue for Leda, if not for Noah). I can see the first part of Season 2 being taken up just with shipbuilding, with only the Trekkies, Warsies, Soviet Air Force, and Artemis actually going anywhere before mid-2015 (because they're the only ones with the capability at the very start, unless Grover's Corners decides to leave cislunar for a year or two).
Also, there's three dozen "interesting" systems within a month's one-way travel (Limit to Limit) that haven't been claimed yet, and almost as many further out but still within 100 light-years. Taking into account the likelihood that multiple groups will choose to explore the "big name" systems like Sirius and Vega, there will still be plenty of unexplored real estate relatively close to Sol even in 2020.
(Aside: Who gets the fleet made up of the Sophie, Polycrest, Surprise, Boadicea, and Leopard? They aren't Artemis, Starfleet, Republic, or VVS ships and we don't seem to have any Age of Sail Fen in Fenspace other than the Space Pirates - who wouldn't be caught dead flying navy ships - but the set's too good to not have somewhere...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I don't want to force this on anyone (although it looks to be popular), and I'm not wedded to any particular part of it other than Stellvia/Artemis getting to explore the two systems I've already staked out. We can change the details.
Consider: the Boskone War ends in January 2014. The Miranda doesn't return to the Sol system until mid-2014 - we have a story thread that says they reach Hades Station during the Convention that year. Then there's a couple of months of people considering "should we?", followed by some but not all of those people considering "how?", capped off with StellviaCorp's declaration of independence and Helen's birth (which decides the issue for Leda, if not for Noah). I can see the first part of Season 2 being taken up just with shipbuilding, with only the Trekkies, Warsies, Soviet Air Force, and Artemis actually going anywhere before mid-2015 (because they're the only ones with the capability at the very start, unless Grover's Corners decides to leave cislunar for a year or two).
Also, there's three dozen "interesting" systems within a month's one-way travel (Limit to Limit) that haven't been claimed yet, and almost as many further out but still within 100 light-years. Taking into account the likelihood that multiple groups will choose to explore the "big name" systems like Sirius and Vega, there will still be plenty of unexplored real estate relatively close to Sol even in 2020.
(Aside: Who gets the fleet made up of the Sophie, Polycrest, Surprise, Boadicea, and Leopard? They aren't Artemis, Starfleet, Republic, or VVS ships and we don't seem to have any Age of Sail Fen in Fenspace other than the Space Pirates - who wouldn't be caught dead flying navy ships - but the set's too good to not have somewhere...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012