nuclear-apocalypse

In Chapter Twenty-One, Olivia Ferranti awakens from S-space and meets with a group of young survivors who have taken control of a ship. She recounts the catastrophic nuclear war on Earth that forced humanity into space, the subsequent fragmentation of space colonies, and the development of S-space as a means to extend subjective human life for interstellar travel. The chapter explores the historical context of humanity's survival in space and the social-political divisions that arose among the colonies.