Time accelerated once more. Modern cities appeared on the Blue Planet, ablaze with neon, crowded with cars.
Then came war, and then reconstruction. After reconstruction was complete, several more millennia passed. As a new annihilating war broke out, one primitive controlled-fusion starship after another blasted free of the Origin Star System, lunging toward the nearest South Nine Star System.
After a long accumulation of hundreds of thousands of years, the first-generation Source Star humans finally developed controlled nuclear fusion before completely exhausting all usable resources in their own Star System, and in doing so broke away from the Source Star.
