Challenge #04401-L017: A Thousand Points of Light

It's again the anniversary of when the Earth circles their star. Even though they are far from Earth, and have never actually been there, they were born and raised on a different world, like the people of Earth, they celebrate with parties, lots of food, and lots of brightly colored drones making the equivalent of silent fireworks in the air. Don't want to scare friends with the bangs after all! -- Anon Guest

[AN: Most Terran colonies celebrate their own solar anniversary, mostly because it's easy to lose track of the Terran calendar]

Time makes worlds strange. Colonial worlds doubly so. The journey down deep time desynchronises the colonists from Earth's real time. Starting with the centuries to millennia of deep time that the colonial ships travel to get there. The best they can hope for to resynchronise is attempting to receive Earth's transmissions and co-odinate matching new years' days.

This doesn't always work. Signals can be either a very long time coming, or undetectable by the time the colonists regain the technology to receive them. Assuming, of course, that the colony was ever able to have that technology.

Brav'nu was not alone in a slide backwards from the Space Age to more elementary levels of technology.

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