"Lets assume we can all 'come back' after a thousand years..."
In the year 3007, after several disastrous episodes that threatened to bring life on Earth to an end, there is an era of utopia. The dominant life form is the 'neo-human', an engineered species physically, mentally and socially superior. They have true empathic insight owing to modified electromagnetic cerebral functions. They have moved Venus into a new orbit and have commenced terraforming. Earth-like planets orbiting stars within 500 lt yrs of Sol were discovered more than 900 years ago, and several intersteller coloniser missions were finally launched in the last decade before the Second World Famine. The vessels employ the 'Witten String-Harmonics Drive' first proposed by Joseph Witten, great grandson of the 'Father of GUT', Edward Witten, and are due to reach their destinations within the next few weeks.
