Salvai's Aftermath

Salvai's Aftermath is a science fiction universe, which may in the future be turned into a series of short stories and novels.

Overview
It is the year 3243 A.D, and the human race has become very adept at space travel, although due to speed restrictions are only able to travel to and colonize a few of the surrounding stars. But President Chelsea Salvai, the rather corrupt leader of the newly independent Moon, along with her physicist brother Edmond Salvai, discovers the secret behind hyperspace travel. They use this advantage to ambush and conquer several unsuspecting colonies, beginning the Hyperspace War which lasted for nearly a decade. Late in the war, Salvai attempts to colonize far off Earth-like planets that are far out of reach of the other nations, but these projects are awkwardly abandoned soon after due to Salvai's defeat at the hands of The United Nations of Earth, the other major superpower at the time. But before her surrender, Salvai managed to erase all data and programming from all the hyperspace ships and any computer related to them, eradicating much of the information about how the hyperspace drives worked. It took several thousand years before all the colonies had recovered, the secret to hyperspace travel was rediscovered, and people became comfortable with the idea of using it so that humanity could begin expansion farther into the cosmos. As they do so, they periodically discover worlds that had almost been colonized but abandoned, and on them new subspecies of the human race.