Once in a great while, humanity unlocks a secret so profound that our future is altered forever. Fire. Electricity. Splitting the atom. At the dawn of the 31st century, we unlocked another. It had the potential to change humanity's role in the universe. We called it The Icarus Project, and it was a testament to the limitless power of the human imaginat

Courtship – this is an old Earth word for when a male of the species wanted to make it known that he wished to take a female into his protection. Humans call this marriage. The courtship consisted of the male making the female’s family aware of how he will provide for the female and how he will care for her in a way she is accustomed to. The couple would be allowed to spend time with each other to see that they are compatible. These meetings would always take pla