18 TRANSFORMATION
2295 A.D. ONE YEAR AT Van Maanen’s Star
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THINGS WERE GOING WELL. The Seeker and the Praxis were mostly built. The breakaway groups that wanted their own ships were getting them. The asteroidal resources in this system were so abundant that we had metals to spare to create some warp-capable exploration vessels that would be launched to many of the unexplored yellow stars in the local neighborhood.
We were in the process of moving personnel from the orbital habitats, back into the starships. We were making ourselves at home, and shaking out the last problems in our rebuilt, or newly built, ships. The Praxis and the Seeker were larger than the old Worldship design, five hundred miles in diameter, and 2200 miles long. They were also flattened, to accommodate conve
