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Energy over Time

Boro continued with the lecture. "Energy needs had been met with upgrade after upgrade. The 3E Harness of 2240, the Van Allen Absorption Array of 2316, and the Oort Scoop of 2360 were marvels of technology, to be sure, and they all remained in use, giving over one hundred billion human beings the energy they needed with nary a hiccup. The stargates changed all that.

“When Marlena Dieter halted starship production with her discovery of controlled wormhole instantiation, Humanity held its breath as it waited for the first prototypes to be completed. Finally, a way to circumvent the problem of the speed limit which had confounded space travel for generations. Even the skeleton colony on a.Centauri IV tuned in, four-year delay be damned. They didn’t mind, hoped, even, that their logistical methods would soon be rendered obsolete.

“And it worked. For two seconds. For two glorious seconds, a man or vehicle could go through into the light of another star. No one did, of course. We sent probes.

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