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Miniaturized Valkyrie rockets are fired towards the Kuiper Belt to obtain a complete maps of the terra incognita that is the cometary halo and find the elusive Oort Cloud.
People are starting to notice a trend among the young. Born in a world of molecular nanotechnology, of cured diseases, and a tamed world, they had everything – With all their needs satisfied, they became conformists, then Isolationists. Nearing the end of the sixth decade, the Golden Hour's Generation is one of luddites, xenophobes, medievalists, and ignorant fascists. Proof of how tendencies can backlash to one extreme when a society is set to the opposite.
The total antithesis of the Golden Hour had happened almost a century ago, and the hippies and peace-and-love hipsters showed up. This was the same, but in the opposite direction. Marriage was outdated. People got together, had twelve children and separated afterwards. Most people had no problem with crossdressing or fetish parties or whatever. Consensual intercourse in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation was so yesterday. People were content with pain amplifiers and buttplugs, common fluid exchange was frowned upon. Most babies were selected out of a sea of zygotes, to get the best genetic material, and then genemodded.
On Earth, luddism is winning. In space, colonization has taken place with such vigour that all of the old low-budget NASA plans have been forgotten and the small nuclear-electric rockets replaced with gigantic interplanetary junkyards, the small ships replaced with gigantic spacecraft trailing behind an engine module placed at the front of the ship; pulling instead of pushing; to reduce the mass penalty and get maximum efficiency.