Making a Better Tomorrow (of Empires and Emperors)

This story is set within the Traveller universe created by Marc W Miller. It focuses on the return of a group of outcasts, 'misfits', and their descendants that were formerly misunderstood, harassed, abused and tormented by bullies and other deeply misguided people in life whom simply didn't understand them or the treasure they held within.

These people banded together and quickly left Earth at the turn of the century for an unknown and uncharted region of the galaxy to live in peace. Once free of their troubles on Earth they rapidly advanced both mentally and technologically achieving that pinnacle best described as magic.

They found a place for themselves about ten thousand light years distant from Earth. Their new home is located spinward around the galaxy. Together they developed a society both without strife and without the need for war.

The society they developed grew to a population of over five hundred trillion persons.

Now, over thirty six centuries later, they are coming home...