[quote=Commodore Robot]
I figured we were doing second stage colonialism. Yknow imperialism the scramble for Africa, partition of china all that fun stuff.
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Considering there hasn't been a single new world discovered, that makes a second stage hard doesn't it...?

The intro says we've been fighting over this land, not having found another, and that mystery surrounds it. Sounds early colonialism, tbh. That would mean we're entering the industrial revolution and just beginning colonialism, so not the late 1800's tech we're seeing.