Cosmopolitans
The humans who live along, advance, and venture to the frontier are known as Cosmopolitans; a person who lives the majority of their life in interstellar transit. Their homes are their ships and their flotillas; they may have left their home worlds far behind in time and space, or they may have been born on their ship, and the void and stars the only homeland they've ever known. Without reliable access to blinkspace, these populations must travel the old way; interstellar travel that occurs at or near the speed of light. This interstellar travel comes at a cost; existence at this relative speed necessarily means that Cosmopolitan humans live outside of the course of “real” time. They trade the permanence and normality of a terrestrial life for the vast life, the uprooted life — a life lived in the wind, only ever dipping back into real-time when they make port at their destination. The average Cosmopolitan with no augments or significant bioengineering tends to live between 170 to 200 subjective years.
They trade the permanence and normality of a terrestrial life for the vast life, the uprooted life — a life lived in the wind, only ever dipping back into real-time when they make port at their destination.Life for a Cosmopolitan human is split into subjective and real time, or, time as a Cosmopolitan experiences it, and time as the rest of the galaxy experiences it. To the humans of the Diaspora and the Core, these Cosmopolitans are almost eternal, seeming to live for generations. The histories, stories, and cultures of Cosmopolitans are separate from the bulk of humanity, their lives defined in relation and contrast to the windows of time they witness when they drop out of nearlight. To observers, the Cosmopolitan life might seem lonely or ahistorical, but Cosmopolitans have rich and storied histories, shared culture, and a vision of humanity as a whole that few others have access to or the ability to witness.
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