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In the furthest reaches of space, unexplained electromagnetic waves generate  
forth and are received by human listening posts.  Received but not translated.
A 100 year long R and D frenzy to "break free" insues in the late 2800's and
results in the necessary faster than light drives being developed and several 
expeditions being launched for the 10 year trip to Jacob's Star more than 400
light years away.  There, the explorers discover a Ring World, an artificially
created ring of exotic metal composites, lined with mountains, rivers, soil and
seas that totally encircles a yellow dwarf star.  Around the edges are impossibly
high mountain ranges which hold the atmosphere in.  A gargantuan alien engineering feat 
but the source of the original signals is never found.  After 50 years, without
relief, civilization has fallen off to a survival mode for all of
the colonists.  But the Ring World is vast and fertile, and rumors persist that an
unbelievably advanced race hides somewhere in the expanse of RingWorld.
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