People mastered the part of the Solar System left to them.
On Earth reign peace and harmony, but the memory of lost stars revives the dream of overcoming the Barrier and finding a road into the Universe.
Five thousand years—Earthlings have been locked in their own Solar System by the High Ones’ Barrier. A human civilization deprived of access to deep space has been forced to develop toward perfecting its own mind and body.
In attempts to obtain “brothers in reason,” people created new races and animals, previously found only in fairy tales.
They mastered psi-technologies that allow communication, control of their own bodies, and control of other objects through thought. Massive megacities—an ugly offspring of the twentieth century—have vanished from the face of the planet.