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The time: 15000 years from now. The place: the Milky Way galaxy. For millennia, Old Earth sent slower-than-light colony ships to the stars; for millennia, new worlds were settled and went their separate ways, keeping only tenuous, generations-long contact with Earth. Many colonies failed; many went silent, regressing into barbarism and savagery; but many thrived, evolving and diverging into new subspecies and societies. On Old Earth, the centuries wore into millennia, each one much like the last; blessed with long life, untold riches, and advanced technology, humankind had at last achieved Utopia, only to find it wearying, and stale. Whilst the stars sang with the songs of men, Old Earth slowly began to die. Two hundred years ago everything changed. After centuries of stagnation, the scientists of Old Earth discovered the secrets of faster-than-light travel. In their planeships they ventured to the stars, in search of the colonies they had sent out millennia before. What they found stunned them. The galaxy was alive! Everywhere they went, they found people. Vibrant cultures, civilizations made strange with vast stretches of time, worlds savage and untamed. Suddenly, Old Earth felt itself old no longer, but young, and excited by the prospects of an unknown and unpredictable future. It was a new age of discovery - a Second Age of Space. Mindjammer is a game of action and adventure in the far, far future. Explore new worlds, contact lost colonies, help rejuvenate the ancient civilization of Old Earth and save it from decay and the unknown dangers of space. Can you defend the light of humanity's greatest civilization as it spreads to the stars?
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