The History of Darwin Colony: An Overview, Part One (take seven)

[NOTE:Tried pasting the following in last night, and again this morning and got a pile of errors for my pains. So we'll try it one more time, with the correct html tags finally.]

The dam has finally burst.

In the past week, page upon page of writing has spilled forth.

Unfortunately, it's all expository prologue with nary a character in sight. But progress is progress, right?

So I shall post, in segments, a historical overview encompassing some six thousand years or so. None of it's gospel yet (well, almost none), but I think the outline is sound.

Also, bear in mind that I borrow some unimportant aspects direct and untouched from the SF Cliche Warehouse.

And I can't keep myself from comma splicing like there's no tomorrow. But enough with the caveats.

Apart from the above, I (at least) think it presents a mildly interesting history. I'd be quite interested to know if others find it a plausibly constructed and self-consistent scenario as well. When I give people choices, do they make the best possible ones given the information available to them (this comes into play more in future segments).

But I'm starting to ramble.

( Part One )