Sleeper Age

The Sleeper Age was a time period that succeeded The Settlement and preceded the Superluminal Age. The age saw the beginnings of interstellar travel by humans, initial It is generally accepted to have begun in 151 AU with the arrival of the first unmanned spacecraft at Proxima Centauri. It was so named due to the use of sleeper ships to travel long immensely long interstellar distances.
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