SHIP COUNCIL

In 2763 the New World reached the solar system that was the first step in the journey to Home (Gliese 667C c). Proceeding toward the interior of the system in the direction of the star, they discovered that the surface of all the rocky planets, strangely smooth and regular when viewed from space, was artificial and in constant motion.

The crew of the New World did not meet the aliens, but their nanotechnology. It seemed ubiquitous in the system, so as to gave birth to the neologism nanoforming, composed of nanotechnology and terraforming, to indicate a planetary body whose surface has been completely transformed by nanotechnology.

One thing was certain: the oldest and most primitive nanomachines that have been identified were about a million years old.

Eight years later, using new technologies, the first neural connections between human beings were carried out successfully. These connections, made through flows of nanovectors powered by quantum dots, leading to the birth of the first multi-corporeal individuals, who were called Hives, due to the high degree of physical and psychic integration achieved by the individual units. 

In 2883 both flora and aeroponic products of the New World  were entrusted to colonies of nanomechanisms, defined together as robotic ecology, a term which quickly became commonplace.