A.D. 2537
The final delay in long-term space travel has been eliminated. The World Federation announced today that a communications device called an ansible had been proven to communicate instantly with any other ansible anywhere in the universe. Using subatomic particles called philotes as the medium of communication, the ansible can transmit the entire digital knowledge of Earth to a starship or another planet instantaneously. With this announcement, the Off-Earth Colonization Company announced that the first flotilla of starships will leave for Terra, the recently discovered uninhabited class 3 planet in the Andromeda group, on January 1, 2538. This flotilla will transport 500 families and all necessary equipment to Terra. The flotilla should arrive sometime around 2750.
Megan Sapp