The Dirk universe

Some thoughts on the demographic makeup of my reimagined Dirk universe; some science, and some history.

The scientists of this universe never discovered what Einstein in our universe discovered. They never learned about the speed of light being a limit on the speed of travel. Thus their curiosity and technology developed without the restrictions that such knowledge brings.

The omyn were the first people who reached out into space. They were driven by their curiosity, their imagination. At first they explored their own star system. They discovered new worlds, they colonized them, and so they spread out.

They discovered the kablad, an easy going, agrarian (note to self: look up what agrarian actually means), spiritually developed but technologically underdeveloped people. The kablad florurished from contact with the omyn. They too spread out into space, they intermingled with the omyn, and most distinctions between the two races faded as the kablad assimilated themselves into the omyn culure.

Today, the known universe includes three star systems, densely populated. Most of the population think of themselves as omyn, that is if they bother to to name themselves at all, and they recognize the few kablad that walk among them, work with them.

The scientists are aware of the effects of velocity on mass, they postulate that there may be a limit on the speed of travel but no one has ever proved it and most people find the idea farfetched. Thus, Interspace was discovered, and Nexus Station was built.

Interspace is a dimension of space, what might be called hyperspace in another science fiction universe (e.g. Babylon 5). A ship enters into Interspace by passing through a nexus field. Nexus Station is a gateway to the other known star systems. It works by generating a nexus field around a ship. Nexus Station also has hotel, entertainment, and conference facilities.