You wake in a strange room.

Your clothes are foreign and the walls are covered in objects from a different world.

You don't know where or when you are, or if you're still dreaming.

There are footsteps in the hall.

Jumping up, you race out of the room and into the streets.

You have just entered the Twilight Histories.

The Twilight Histories. The...

...wereau. Welcome back.

I hear you became a traveling bard for a while,

reciting seditious poetry across the empire.

You know, we don't encourage tourists to get involved in local politics.

It's a bit dangerous.

But, hey, that was your world. You built it, so you can do what you want, I suppose. Too bad about Lucerna getting caught, though. I hear

her death was at least quick. Now, I understand you want to shake things up a little.

You've been doing a lot of low-tech travel lately, and you want something a bit more modern.

I have something for you.

The world we're sending you to split from our timeline, about 200 years ago, back in 2086.

I'm sure you learned all about Project Gleasa in grade school. It was a huge international effort

that took humanity to the stars. Seeing those first historic steps on a planet beyond our solar system,

well, that footage really is moving.

In our timeline, Project Gleesa puttered along for decades.

It was a hole that government kept shoving money into until one day it finally bore fruit

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