Born 2092, died 2173.
Mark Heisson was without doubt the most celebrated individual of the 22nd century: genius behind the matter annihilation power plant (2118), shield drive (2121), grav drive (2124), jump drive (2127), and father of the Starguild Conventions (2149).
Mark’s power plant was designed to power spacecraft, but scaled up, provided worldwide cheap and “star-tech renewable” energy.
Heisson’s starship drive, called shield drive because of the faint glowing field it projected around the ship, was capable of tremendous velocities that opened the solar system to development by reducing travel time to Mars from years to days.
Grav drive, developed by Exotic Technologies Corporation based on Mark’s prototype, revolutionized aviation.
Not content marketing and improving these technologies, Mark focused on an even more revolutionary technology, jump drive.
Governments, scholars, and marketers refused to support Mark’s obsession and tried to focus Heisson Aeronautics on the conquest of the solar system, a short-term attainable goal.
If Heisson Aeronautics refused to support those goals, they threatened to strip Heisson Aeronautics of its technology and place it in the hands of more compliant corporations.
Unwilling to be distracted, Mark surrendered the secrets of shield drive, grav drive, and matter annihilation power.
Others could proliferate his technology, while he focused on faster than light propulsion.
Six years later Mark unveiled jump drive to a host of international scientists and dignitaries.
The robotic Questar Probe would demonstrate jump transition into another dimension.
Questar would leave the confines of the “real” and emerge from jump space at a distant star.
The Probe’s remarkable disappearance was enough to convince the assembled host that they had witnessed the landmark event of the century.
By 2135, half a dozen exploration conglomerates had joined the interstellar space age.
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