Frontier stories

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Frontier stories were the main part of the Starlight Cycle, one of the eight cycles of Glastieven mythology, and were treated at the time as a cycle in their own right, the "Frontier Cycle". They told the story of a group of explorers on the celestial frontier who tended to stumble across arcane secrets and get into adventures. They were set in the early After-Human Era, named for the breakup of the politically united Great Human Commonwealth, when humankind was just beginning to divide socially and genetically into species-nations and when it still took five to ten years to travel between adjacent planetary systems. Like the rest of the Starlight Cycle, they aimed to achieve a fantastical aesthetic in the context of science fiction, and was full of empty, lonely settings. The key characters were Aurora, Cathal Sior, Aerule Ceruleus and Isan Segba.